bug reporting?
Hello, I am a long time Debian user but a newcomer to the amd64
port. I met a problem in setting up a pure64 machine as a slave nis
server, connected to a standard debian woody x86 nis master. It looks like
the problem is in the 64 bit version, as it does not appear in the 32 bit
version I installed (as a test) in the chroot.
Now the questions: should I use the standard debian bug tracking system to
report amd64 bugs? I am uncertain, since it is not (yet) an official port.
In the meanwhile, the second question: did anybody (try to) install a
slave nis server on a pure64 and get it to transfer the nis maps from a
debian x86 nis master server? Did anybody actually _succeed_ at it?
Problem description: when I run
/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s <my_master_nis_server>
on the wannabe pure64 nis slave server, I get something like:
Transferring passwd.byuid...
Trying ypxfrd ...rpc.ypxfrd doesn't support the needed database type
call to rpc.ypxfrd failed: RPC: Can't decode result
(failed, fallback to enumeration)
which is replicated for each and every nis map. The above occurs also each
and every time I start the nis server/daemon using the provided
/etc/init.d/nis script. If I replicate the configuration in the 32 bit
chroot and run the 32 bit ypinit and/or server/daemon, everything runs
smoothly.
Any hints, suggestions (apart from abandoning nis, which I would if I
could, but I cannot...)
Thanks, bye
Giacomo
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