http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160995
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160995#c33
--- Comment #33 from GCC Da DiscoveryTechnologies
No NIS at all! If it cannot be solved before, then NIS is needed to solve it via NIS, which means a nice recursion.
# grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files nis mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
All NIS servers are defined in /etc/hosts , so they should be resolved from there.
Most likely the solver tries some variants or one variant (e.g. FQDN vs short name) is missing, and you have your recursion. This is not a good and robust idea.
I thoroughly took care to include all possible name variants in the local /etc/hosts . Nevertheless, I adhered to your advice: 1. Replaced NIS server names by their IP addresses in /etc/yp.conf 2. Removed 'nis' from the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf Then I rebooted the machine. I had the affected user working on the test system the whole day yesterday. And she could not manage to crash kscreenlocker_greet again! So I believe that you are right and our configuration was involved into the crashes. I will update the configuration on all our systems with the new learnings. Thanks for your input, Thorsten! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.