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Re: udevd[]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - Can't contact LDAP server



On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:23:47AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:39:36AM +0200, De Leeuw Guy wrote:

> > When I boot or server (ia64) I receive theses errors :

> > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar: Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar: Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://foo.bar: Can't contact LDAP server
> > udevd[]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)
> > ...........
> > sleep interval is doubled each time 4,8,16,32,64... and I wait more than 15 min
> > ctrl-c stop udevd and the boot hangs

> > How can I solve this problem ?

> I think it are two problems:
> * udevd was told to use nss_ldap ( It could be a user error. )

That is neither a problem nor a user error; udev has no special NSS config,
it uses whatever is configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

> * udevd waiting forever on an LDAP server (IMHO is fall back to plain files) 

udevd isn't doing the waiting, the NSS module is.

> Then there is another to find out:
> Is it really a Debian-installer problem or is it a udev thing?

Neither, this is an nss_ldap upstream abortion documented in bug #375077.

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