Bug#793745: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

2015-07-30 Thread Christophe Wolfhugel
r ID 114 2) rlimit memlock 0 + "compat" Starts normally 3) No rlimit memlock 0 + "files" in nsswitch.conf Starts normally. I would conclude that "something somewhere" makes the getpw* call fail when "rlimit memlock 0" is not used. -- Christophe Wolfhu

Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

2015-07-28 Thread Christophe Wolfhugel
I do agree there must be something else which broke the getpw call or the libc somehow. On another machine I also have compat for nsswitch.conf and it worked. Also on my setup the Perl "getpwuid/getpwnam" functions were still working correctly despite the ntpd's call failing. I do not have a clea

Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

2015-07-27 Thread Christophe Wolfhugel
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p3+dfsg-1 Followup-For: Bug #793745 I observed the same issue with the recent update from testing, although I narrowed this down to a possible change or bug in other packages. On my system /etc/nsswitch.conf was set to compat for passwd/group/shadow and I did set it (