tries to clear nscd hosts cache even when it's not installed

Bug #131911 reported by Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

network-manager should check if nscd is installed before trying to clear hosts cache. From log:

Aug 11 22:03:15 snifer-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
Aug 11 22:03:15 snifer-laptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_spawn_process(): nm_spawn_process('/usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts'): could not spawn process. (Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/nscd" (No such file or directory))

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 11 23:02:51 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: network-manager 0.6.5-0ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux snifer-laptop 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote :
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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote : (no subject)

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status: New → Triaged
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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

oops, wrong bug #

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status: Triaged → New
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Now that the final version of Gutsy Gibbon is available we were wondering if this issue still exists. Thanks in advance.

Changed in network-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

I still see it in the logs. The earliest occurrences are from Nov 29, which is today.

bogdanb@arioch:/var/log$ grep -iIr 'nscd hosts cache' *
grep: apt/term.log: Permission denied
grep: apt/term.log.1.gz: Permission denied
grep: cups/cups-pdf_log: Permission denied
daemon.log:Nov 26 10:54:20 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log:Nov 27 10:07:04 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log:Nov 27 11:45:10 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log:Nov 27 20:44:11 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log:Nov 28 12:06:26 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log:Nov 29 02:11:40 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 18 18:16:15 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 19 11:36:33 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 20 20:02:41 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 11:23:29 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 11:54:07 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 11:57:23 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 12:00:17 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 12:01:11 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 12:17:02 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 12:27:16 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 21 22:28:24 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 22 02:52:41 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 22 14:34:27 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 22 23:24:53 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 22 23:26:02 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 23 18:33:39 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 24 00:42:56 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 24 11:16:31 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 25 13:47:04 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Nov 25 21:09:42 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
grep: installer/syslog: Permission denied
grep: installer/cdebconf/templates.dat: Permission denied
grep: installer/cdebconf/questions.dat: Permission denied
grep: installer/partman: Permission denied
syslog:Nov 28 12:06:26 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
syslog:Nov 29 02:11:40 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
syslog.0:Nov 27 10:07:04 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
syslog.0:Nov 27 11:45:10 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
syslog.0:Nov 27 20:44:11 arioch NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.

Changed in network-manager:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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David de Hoog (daviddehoog) wrote :

I've got exactly the same warning on a freshly installed Gutsy 7.10 system:

Dec 3 23:45:20 queeg NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
Dec 3 23:45:20 queeg NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_spawn_process(): nm_spawn_process('/usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts'): could not spawn process. (Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/nscd" (No such file or directory))

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 131911] Re: tries to clear nscd hosts cache even when it's not installed

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:58:04PM -0000, David de Hoog wrote:
> I've got exactly the same warning on a freshly installed Gutsy 7.10
> system:
>
> Dec 3 23:45:20 queeg NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
> Dec 3 23:45:20 queeg NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_spawn_process(): nm_spawn_process('/usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts'): could not spawn process. (Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/nscd" (No such file or directory))
>

This isn't a real problem as it doesn't break any feature. thus won't
be fixed in network-manager 0.6.x

 status wontfix

 - Alexander

Changed in network-manager:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote :

Yes it does break a feature, logging. It floods the logs with unnecessary warnings, and NetworkManager is already very chatty in the logs, even without fake warnings. It's not urgent, but it should be fixed eventually.

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