Hi Robert,

> I have installed  nss_ldap-253-13.el5_2.1.i386 from sl-fastbugs and set 
> ssl off (/etc/ldap.conf).
> 
> I tested with bind_policy hard (/etc/ldap.conf) and the server still 
> tries to connect to an ldap server before either interface lo or eth0 
> are up.
> 
> I am looking at /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules to see if their are any 
> device not in my /etc/group.??... (I'm still fishing for a solution.)

Could it be possible that there is a console lock in /var/run/console ?

At least during a crash it will not be removed, and I fear that 
pam_console often will not remove it also during a normal logout.

udev then tries to retrieve the uid of the the user.

A hack as fix for this problem (but definitly not a perfect solution), 
would be to remove the locks in /var/run/console before udev starts. But 
be aware that at this point the system is readonly mounted, so a remount 
  is necessary:


# Remove files in /var/run/console to avoid udev hung
# Have to remount rw temporarily as filesystem is not yet writeable
# There should be another fix in udev or pam_console_apply at the long run
mount -o remount,rw /
rm -f /var/run/console/*
mount -o remount,ro /

Put these lines into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit just before /sbin/start_udev
and try it out.

I have this hack built into my desktop systems, as we had some hung 
situations during bootstrap with udev.

Sincerly,
Klaus