Comment 82 for bug 93360

Hi!

Thanks for the hint! Unfortunately that does not help me, but it did inspire me to search a little further:

It seems that in my case, the problem is not really related to the network interface or dhcp itself - those are working fine. The problem seems to lie somewhere with nm-applet, dhcdbd, dbus, and (possibly) nss.

Here's how the problem manifests:
1. Boot with Network unplugged
2. Log in - nm-applet will show up with a warning icon: no network
3. Connect network
4. nm-applet will spin seemingly forever, waiting for a dhcp assigned network address
5. in reality, the network address has been assigned, and the network interface is up
6. nm-applet will periodically bring the network interface up and down, apparently trying to resolve the problem
7. meanwhile /var/log/messages is full of stuff like: "dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eht0.dbus.get.******"
8. and /var/log/auth fills up with: dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to ldap server... etc....
9. system is very slow and unreactive from that point on

So on a hunch, I set the bind_timeout to 1 (1 second) in /etc/ldap.conf - this has not exactly fixed, but massivly improved the situation:

Now when I plug in the network nm-applet only spins for about 15seconds, before correctly showing a connected LAN.

It seems to be trying to get information via nss_ldap - the auth log shows continuous connection attempts while nm-applet is spinning. When nm-applet stops spinning, the nss connection attempts stop, and the dbus messages are spit out to /var/log/messages.

So it seems to me the problem lies in how the system is trying to access network information - mysterious, since I have nss setup only to serve users and groups from ldap, not hosts, domains and networks.

I will investigate this some more, including the nss setup and my pam setup for dbus.

I'll keep you posted if I find anything, in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas, let me know!

Regards from Vienna,

Richard Unger