On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:01:05PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Brian May] > > I found my debian/testing computer was hanging on startup. udev was > > trying to contact LDAP (via NSS), but LDAP wasn't configured yet.
> I recently discovered the same problem with debian-edu. We install an > ldap server on the same machine using libnss-ldap, and the boot just > hang. I found bug #375077 on this. Thank you for bringing it to my > attention. > I had to boot using the 'emergency' boot parameter to be able to edit > nsswitch.conf to get the machine running enough for me to debug this. > I guess programs started very early in the boot process must only look > up users and groups present in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and > libnss-ldap should be configured to not try so long before it give up. > I'm not sure what changed, but libnss-ldap with openldap on the same > machine work just fine both in woody and sarge. libnss-ldap has a new, retarded upstream default where it polls the server several times in the case of a connection refused error instead of just returning a notfound to the caller. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
