.nscd_socket read hangs

[Joshua J. England]

I need help getting nscd to work on my system.

I am running RedHat 7.1 for Alpha using the following packages:
glibc-2.2.3-11  # RPM
nscd-2.2.4-29   # RPM

nscd hangs and causes any related lookup(passwd,group,hosts) to also hang.

`strace nscd -d` (and others) show:
I am running RedHat 7.1 for Alpha using the following packages:
glibc-2.2.3-11  # RPM
nscd-2.2.4-29   # RPM

socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 5
connect(5, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="                                                                                       /var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = 0
write(5, "\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\6\0\0\0", 12) = 12
write(5, "su8sn\0", 6)                  = 6
read(5,

Where it hangs.

Is some piece of configuration missing?  /etc/nscd.conf is stock and looks fine.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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-Josh
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Josh England
Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Distributed Information Systems
email: jjengla@sandia.gov
phone: (925) 294-2076