David Mulder

Honestly, this is probably a bug in the certmonger daemon startup of your distro. Certmonger should not be starting prior to the network being up. File a bug against your...

Maybe, but the primary problem is your distro should not start certmonger before networking is up.

And how would we fix this in cepces? Add a early check to make sure the network is reachable, then bail out? No, it's the OS job to ensure the...

We could catch the exception somewhere, and print a prettier message, and that might be more desirable for sysadmins, but it is not for those working on the code. I...

> > One should be able to inquire certmonger about cert like getcert list without network. OK, when I think about it, this part makes sense. We shouldn't break getcert...

It'd be best if you opened a bug at redhat.