[CentOS] udevd can't reach LDAP-server during boot

[Meenoo Shivdasani]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> There is a BUG with nss_ldap:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448014
>
> We have this bug listed in our release notes:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2#head-447967c60eb305ef2c5dbbc3f4e8b3c4c5170632
>
> You can try the nss_ldap from our testing repo for this bug:
>
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/
>
> This may help with the problem.

FWIW, my experience with a variant of this problem and nss_ldap from
the testing repo was that boot would hang indefinitely at udevd unless
I limited the nss_reconnect_* values.  I ended up changing to
bind_policy soft as a workaround.

M