[CentOS] CentOS-5 - Suffering from LDAP experimentation

James A. Peltier jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca
Thu Sep 27 20:09:00 UTC 2007


James B. Byrne wrote:
> I was playing aeound with the GUI authentication configuration and was
> called away from my desk after I had configured the LDAP DC entries but
> before I had tried to start the ldap server or do much of anything else. 
> When I returned the terminal session was screen-saver locked and entering
> my user password did not make it respond. I kept getting a time-out error.
> Rebooting took forever and was delayed for long periods at two points that
> I do not recall as being problems before; Loading IPtablesv6? and Starting
> system message bus.  More importantly the user GUI takes forever to start.
> 
> I am seeing these entries in the /var/log/merssages filr (vis ssh login
> through another system.):
> 
> Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server
> ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server
> Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server
> (sleeping 8 seconds)...
> Sep 27 15:37:21 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server
> ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server
> ...
> Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server
> ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server
> Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server -
> Server is unavailable
> 
> So, how do I undo whateever it is I borked when I experimented with LDAP?
> 
> This is a rtestbox aso a re-install is not out of the question.
> 
> I am digest subscriber so if you could copy me directly on any reply to
> the list I would be very appreciative.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 

Try booting into single user mode and reverting the changes back.  This 
can be done at the grub prompt by adding a S to the end of the kernel line

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