On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > yes, I can see what you mean > > > > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us 'old-timers' > > would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put 'ONBOOT=yes' in the > > configuration and be done with it. > > > > ;-) > > > > Craig > > :) It was an interesting exercise though... > > My first assumption was that selinux was the culprit. A search of the > archives showed that a few people had been bitten by an selinux policy > issue. After fussing around with selinux for a while, before > eventually turning it off completely, I realized it had nothing to do > with the issue. > > I agree about NetworkManager and usually turn it off straightaway. > > Anyhoo, I'm leaning towards this being a bug but can be convinced > otherwise. To reproduce: > 1) Boot with the Desktop Edition F12 CD. > 2) Double click the Install to HD icon and accept all defaults. > 3) Reboot. > 4) Configure timezone and authentication to LDAP (enable caching and > local auth is sufficient). > 5) Login as a regular user then su to root. > 6) Launch the system-config-network tool. > > If you run updates at this point, as I did, your initial reboot will > leave you at a login screen that won't work. The system will timeout > trying to access the LDAP servers. > > For a newbie to Fedora this would be frustrating. ---- something like this in your /etc/ldap.conf should help with timeouts... timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines