From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eus <eus@member.fsf.org>
Cc: 23910@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23910: [Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:35:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8fh5eft.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poqdc1bz.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:41:04 +0200")
Hello,
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Eus <eus@member.fsf.org> skribis:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> However, in the past people reported that nscd, the name service cache
>>> daemon, would sometimes fail without any good reason. If you think that
>>> is the case, then this is definitely a bug that we should be
>>> addressing.
>>>
>>
>> That is likely.
>
> What makes you think so?
>
> The problem we had in the past is that nscd would cache lookup failures
> that happened when the Internet connection was missing, which made
> subsequent lookups fail even though networking was back up:
>
> http://bugs.gnu.org/22209
>
> I believe this was fixed by commit
> c96ba2cf5efc0ee5c10f0a49aeaa9a45a84de7ed.
>
> It would be great if you could check whether the problem is
> reproducible, even with a stable connection.
>
> If it is indeed reproducible, then you could try running the
> installation after turning nscd off with:
>
> herd stop nscd
Did you have a change to try and install 0.11.0? Do you still
experience these problems?
Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-09 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-07 12:06 bug#23910: [Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection Eus
2016-07-15 16:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-16 3:21 ` Eus
2016-07-16 10:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-09 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-09-13 8:47 ` Eus
2016-09-13 9:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 15:05 ` Eus
2016-09-13 16:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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