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configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

I have two presumably identically configured iMacs, one at work and  
one at home.  Both are intel running OS X 10.5.4.

zsh configures fine on the machine at work.  At home, it hangs  
indefinitely testing for NIS

checking for RFS superroot directory... no
checking whether we should use the native getcwd... no
checking for NIS... no
checking for NIS+... no

vs.

checking for /dev/fd filesystem... /dev/fd
checking for RFS superroot directory... no
checking whether we should use the native getcwd... no
checking for NIS...

Neither should have NIS.  The one where this works is running NFS.

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Bart Schaefer | 9 Sep 06:39

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

On Sep 8,  8:19pm, William G. Scott wrote:
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} I have two presumably identically configured iMacs, one at work and  
} one at home.  Both are intel running OS X 10.5.4.
} 
} zsh configures fine on the machine at work.  At home, it hangs  
} indefinitely testing for NIS

Does the Mac at home have *any* kind of networking active?

Run

    /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname

from a shell.  Does that hang forever?  Can you trace it to find out why?
(I forget whether MacOS has "strace" or something else.)

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William G. Scott | 9 Sep 07:04

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

Hi Bart:

Thanks for the reply.

No strace (has traceroute -- no idea how to use it).

On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname

The one I have at work participates in an NFS network, webserver, and  
zsh configure works ok:
sage-% /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname
No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Request arguments bad
sage-%

My one at home does this:

zsh-% /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname

YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying

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Bart Schaefer | 9 Sep 08:11

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

On Sep 8, 10:04pm, William G. Scott wrote:
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} Thanks for the reply.
} 
} No strace (has traceroute -- no idea how to use it).

I just googled it, what you'd want is called ktrace.  However, the
error messages below are probably good enough.

} The one I have at work participates in an NFS network, webserver, and  

Those are all completely irrelevant.  YP (yellow pages) is its own
network service.  NIS stands for "network information service".

} zsh-% /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname
} 
} YP server for domain localhost not responding, still trying
} 
} (indefinite hang).

So it just stops printing those error messages?  That's a bit odd.
Anyway, it'd probably time out after 15 minutes or so.

} I turned off file sharing and bluetooth sharing and it still hangs...

This has absolutely nothing to do with files or the web or bluetooth.

} Is there a way to avoid the test entirely?

Unfortunately not without changing the configure script.  The easiest

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William G. Scott | 9 Sep 17:34

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:11 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
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> } (indefinite hang).
>
> So it just stops printing those error messages?

No, it keeps printing them ad infinitum.

>  That's a bit odd.
> Anyway, it'd probably time out after 15 minutes or so.

After an hour and a half (getting the kids to school) it was still  
hanging.
>
> This has absolutely nothing to do with files or the web or bluetooth.

My point was only that I turned off all the remaining optional network  
services that were on.  The only thing that is consistent is that all  
the computers that suffer this problem are behind a wireless router.

> } Is there a way to avoid the test entirely?
>
> Unfortunately not without changing the configure script.  The easiest
> thing might be to temporarily rename /usr/bin/ypcat, and then rename  
> it
> back after configuration has finished.

For purposes of maintaining the Fink package, I can't touch anything  
outside of its realm.

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Phil Pennock | 9 Sep 19:53

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

On 2008-09-09 at 08:34 -0700, William G. Scott wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:11 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > } (indefinite hang).
> >
> > So it just stops printing those error messages?
> 
> No, it keeps printing them ad infinitum.

This smells like a packet filter somewhere; eg, on your laptop or your
laptop trying to talk to a a corporate map whilst you're not at work or
on a VPN, so things time out because the corporate firewall is dropping
these packets into a black-hole.

> Hopefully this is a peculiarity of my home network setup.

With MacOS 10.4.11 in a setup not using YP/NIS/NIS+ I get:

% ypcat passwd.byname
No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Request arguments bad

So since I doubt that 10.5 adds *more* NIS, I somewhat suspect that NIS
was configured on your system and times out when it can't talk to the
servers.

-Phil

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William Scott | 9 Sep 20:55

Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

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> With MacOS 10.4.11 in a setup not using YP/NIS/NIS+ I get:
>
> % ypcat passwd.byname
> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Request arguments bad

Yeah, I get the same on my machines at work.

>
>
> So since I doubt that 10.5 adds *more* NIS, I somewhat suspect that  
> NIS
> was configured on your system and times out when it can't talk to the
> servers.

Maybe I messed with something and forgot (it is all downhill after 40).

Thanks.

Bill

>
>
> -Phil