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