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