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... -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | "Computers are different from telephones. Computers do not ring." | | -- A. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", p. 32 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jon Peatfield, _Computer_ Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge | | Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/