shibd hangs partway through startup - no visible errors

[Cantor, Scott]

> Any idea why the logs would be buffered/not flushed until I kill shibd?

I don't believe that's happening, so no. I think it probably is hung up somewhere and killing it frees it up to finish starting up and then it notices the shutdown signal queued up and stops.

> Those delayed log lines indicate that the listener is starting

That would be very surprising to me. Check the port state (or I guess the socket path if it's a domain socket) if you really want to. If it's open/present, ok. If it's not, then it's not.

If the issue is reproducible based on a specific attribute map that isn't also used somewhere that isn't hanging then I would file a bug. If not, it's environmental and the only way I know to learn anything else is strace or gdb.

-- Scott