On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Robert Burch wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone see this behavior in SL 5.2?
On boot, we get multiple udevd: nss_ldap failed to bind to LDAP errors.
udevd tries repeatedly (every 4,8,26,32, & 64 sec.s for about 20 mins.) to
connect and then claim our ldap server can not be reached, then boots fine.
It appears that udevd is trying to contact our ldap servers before the
network is brought up. If I disable ldap, the server boots fine. I have set
the ldap reconnect policy (/etc/ldap.conf: bind_policy) to soft for the time
being and it boots fine after udevd times out a few times.
There were similar sounding reports back in May, and most turned out to be
related to changed to how /etc/lapd.conf was being parsed. If this
machine was updated then it might be that your previously working settings
now need to be changed to work - this was most often reported for lapds
setups.
How can I fix udev/ldap timeout problem we have?
I seem to remember that when udev is starting up it needs to do user or
group lookups though I can't remember the details or if there was some
change to hack things so it didn't need network access for it's lookups...
Do I have something wrong in my nsswitch.conf?
Thanks,
Robert
uname -a
Linux our.server.edu 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 14:56:48 EDT 2008
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
udev.i386 095-14.16.el5
openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.i386
cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | egrep -v "^#|^$"
passwd: files ldap
shadow: files ldap
group: files ldap
hosts: files dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: files ldap
publickey: nisplus
automount: files ldap
aliases: files nisplus
It may be worth including your ldap.conf file too just in case that rings
any bells for anyone...
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