[Cdash] Lock timeouts after MySQL MyISAM -> InnoDB migration

[Nils Gladitz]

On 01/09/2014 04:14 PM, Martin Apel wrote:
> I had the exact same problem a few days ago. In my case it turned out,
> that accidentally on my Linux machine nsswitch.conf was configured to
> first ask DNS for name resolution and only afterwards look at the 
> /etc/hosts
> file. Then DNS took rather long and the timeout occurred, before it 
> could respond.
> Changing the order in nsswitch.conf fixed the problem at our site.
>
Resolving and the request itself seem to be instantaneous.
If there is something to be done it is waiting for the response for a 
very long time (around a minute).
If there is nothing to be done this is virtually instantaneous as well.

Nils