[gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.

[daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>]

Sorry, so I put pam back to ~x86 version without any further rebuilds,
and I don't notice any trouble, so it doesn't seem related to pam at
all (my email might imply that).

~daid

On 12 October 2010 16:12, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, as usual, sending email to the user list makes subsequent guesses
> have good affects.
>
> Hard to say for certain, but at present, pam is on x86, and I rebuild
> most the dependencies I could find in the sudo ebuild (seemed a fine
> place to start looking for relevant packages, anyway).
>
> (pam 1.1.1-r2  is x86 and and 1.1.2 is ~x86 at present)
>
> I ran an emerge --oneshot --verbose --ask openldap cyrus-sasl pambase bison
>
> Or it could be gremlins...
>
> If the problem comes back (seems possible) I'll try to see if I can
> pinpoint the solution.
>
> ~daid
>
> On 12 October 2010 15:38, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86.
>>  It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything
>> went smoothly.
>>
>> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
>> slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
>> files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before it was just su and
>> sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds).
>> But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line).
>>
>> As an example that I timed: su, it takes 20 seconds for the password
>> prompt to appear, and over 60 seconds for the login to authenticate
>> (assuming the correct password...it is a little faster to fail).
>>
>> What package(s) are most likely to be responsible for logins and
>> su/sudo?  I tried rebuilding (and also downgrading) pam, and I'm
>> trying some other things now, but no luck so far.
>>
>> I'm happy to provide any information, but this kind of problem is
>> nothing I have experience with, so I have no sense of what else to
>> mention.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> daid
>>
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