On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:43:10AM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am 28.11.2013 04:38, schrieb aurfalien:
Hi,
I rebooted a old Centos 5 box and now its stuck in an ever increasing timeout loop;
nss_ldap: reconnecting tl LDAP server (sleeping # seconds)....
This happens before network services starts.
Any one know how I can break out of this?
It sounds like an old bug where, if there wasn't an LDAP server available, it would still keep looking for one. Amusingly, it didn't even have to be the LDAP server used for authentication, it just wanted to know that there was an LDAP server around. I don't know if RH ever fixed it.
If the system has an /etc/ldap.conf see if there's a line, probably commented, bind_policy. If it's set to hard, uncomment it and set it to soft. If I remember correctly, it would eventually give up and boot--if not, you can try accessing it and editing the file (assuming that is the problem) with some sort of live or rescue CD.