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. How can I fix udev/ldap timeout problem we have? 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