On 2/24/20 8:18 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
I do not know whether this excerpt of a former mail can help but my original /etc/nsswitch.conf was modified, the initial version being renamed /etc/nsswitch.confbak
Here is the change, which added "mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]" on line 29
# diff nsswitch.conf nsswitch.confbak 29c29 < hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns ---
hosts: files dns #
I may have caused it unwittingly, but I never knew it had occured until now, and I still do not know what caused it. Actually I did not even know what it meant until I searched yesterday. And now that I know, I still wonder what it is useful for. You did nothing wrong. The nss-mdns package messes around with nsswitch.conf (and creates the ...bak file). And because it is installed at least on every desktop default installation, it is obvious that nobody really tested the usr/etc move, or they just waved the
Am 24.02.20 um 10:12 schrieb Bernard Lang: problems away with "Let the stoopid users suffer! They deserve it!!!" ;-)
Well it wasn't installed on my default desktop installation (which is less commonly selected) so I guess your statements aren't completely true (that doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed somehow). -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B