Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf (minus the comments):

passwd:     nis files
shadow:     nis files
group:      nis files

hosts:      files nis dns

bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files

ethers:     files
netmasks:   files
networks:   files
protocols:  files
rpc:        files
services:   files

netgroup:   nis files

publickey:  nisplus

automount:  files nisplus
aliases:    files nisplus


Thanks,
- Larry


On 3/3/15 11:55 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2015, at 18:49 , Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> On Mar 3, 2015 8:49 AM, "P. Larry Nelson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am seeing a bizarre bug where an SL6.x system hangs on either
>>> shutdown or reboot at the point where it wants to shutdown the
>>> loopback interface.
> [...]
>>> [ok, here is where it becomes bizarre]
>>> Modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to switch the order of "files nis" to
>>> "nis files" for passwd, shadow, and group, as I've always done.
>>> Reboot.  Boom!  It hangs at loopback interface shutdown!
>>
>> I want to thank you for giving all the details of your testing. I would
>> like to use it as a future example of how to be constructive and helpful to
>> other people needing help.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> So have you looked at nscd any? Does having nscd turned on or off alter
>> this problem. Also what is in hosts and is the NIS server listed. Thanks
>
> And are you sure it's only passwd/group/shadow you set to "nis files"? Nothing else,
> in particular not hosts or ethers?
>
> Interesting issue ;-)
>


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