Re: ypserv problem

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@katamail.com>]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 09:02 your cat walking on the keyboard wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got a quite classical situation: linux server (suse 9.1) holding
> accounts and homes with yp and nfs+automount. Sometimes loggin in from a
> solaris client is very slow, even if it works. Watching the logs, I found a
> few lines like the followings:
>
> Sep 16 10:49:22 mammuth ypserv[2024]: refused connect from X.X.X.X:32793 to
> procedureypproc_match (nis_domain.gamma,passwd.byuid;-1)
>
> I've searched the internet for this problem, but I didn't find a solution.
> I've noticed that the problem seems to be related only to the sun clients,
> even if sometimes the server itself is slow accepting interactive sessions
> on the console. My nsswitch.conf file on the server contains:
>  passwd: files nis
>  shadow: files nis
>  group:  files nis
> and the same on the suns. The machine is the nis master server, no slaves
> are configured now. The fact very strange is that, even if all the machine
> have a name and the dns works fine, in the log I found iP addresses and not
> names. Even placing the host name in the /etc/hosts file does not solve the
> problem. Any suggestion?
>

I've found another issue: on Linux clients using gnome, the user logs in but 
the window system seems to be frozen. The .gnome-errors file contains lines 
like the following:
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 4136.

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

The user id is correct, and the gnome running on solaris works fine. I believe 
this is related to the problem described in the previous mail.

Luca


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Luca Ferrari,
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