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[Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eus <eus <at> member.fsf.org>
Cc: 23910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23910: [Guix Info][7.1.5] Should warn user about losing Internet or DNS connection
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:35:18 +0200

Hello,

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Eus <eus <at> member.fsf.org> skribis:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> However, in the past people reported that nscd, the name service cache
>>> daemon, would sometimes fail without any good reason.  If you think that
>>> is the case, then this is definitely a bug that we should be
>>> addressing.
>>>
>>
>> That is likely.
>
> What makes you think so?
>
> The problem we had in the past is that nscd would cache lookup failures
> that happened when the Internet connection was missing, which made
> subsequent lookups fail even though networking was back up:
>
>   http://bugs.gnu.org/22209
>
> I believe this was fixed by commit
> c96ba2cf5efc0ee5c10f0a49aeaa9a45a84de7ed.
>
> It would be great if you could check whether the problem is
> reproducible, even with a stable connection.
>
> If it is indeed reproducible, then you could try running the
> installation after turning nscd off with:
>
>   herd stop nscd

Did you have a change to try and install 0.11.0?  Do you still
experience these problems?

Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.

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