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

Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at
Wed Jun 25 09:12:23 UTC 2008


Thanks for the answers

>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:51:37 -0400
>>>>> "MS" == Meenoo Shivdasani <meenoo at gmail.com> wrote:

    MS> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Johnny Hughes
    MS> <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
     
I read that, but I didn't connect it to my bug, because I didn't think
that anything to do with bash is relevant at that time during the boot
process. But obviously I was wrong (and by the way: that problem also
occurs with 5.1, so I don't think that it is a bash 3.2 problem)

    >> 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.

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

So the bottom line is 
 - it is possible to shave 2 min off the boot process
 - a good chance to make the machine unbootable (and then play around
   until it works)
Well, I'm a lazy coward ;) but thanks

Bernhard



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