Bug#281302: nscd doesn't find passwd entries after an OpenLDAP restart
reassign 281302 libnss-ldap
thanks
At Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:02:33 -0200,
Marlon Dutra wrote:
> I'm using nscd with libnss-ldap in Woody, and whenever the OpenLDAP
> server has to be restarted, nscd doesn't see some information in passwd,
> even past many minutes, what would expire the cache.
>
> By restarting nscd, it returns to normal operation. The big problem is
> that that happens in every machine whenever the LDAP server is
> restarted, what gets me really angry.
>
> I have some systems that stop working because of that, and I can't
> assure that OpenLDAP will never be restarted.
>
> What I see in the stations' logs when the LDAP server goes down is this:
>
> Nov 14 22:32:12 prodlinux nscd: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server -
> Can't contact LDAP server
>
> It's weird. Even after the LDAP server going down, the stations should
> be able to use the cached information, but they lose it, I don't know
> why. And even after the server restarting, the stations don't see some
> information either.
>
> The most strange is that that doesn't happen with all the information in
> password, for example. It's just with some information. As far as I
> know, there is no a pattern that I could realise what is lost.
I don't know well about libnss-ldap. It's separate package, and I
guess it's not nscd's problem - it's libnss-ldap related because your
log says your module can't contact to ldap server.
Libnss-ldap maintainer, could you look at this bug? BTW, it's woody's
bug, so I hope it's already fixed in the latest sarge version. If
it's glibc problem, please reassign it back and tell us what the
problem is and whether it's even existed or not in the latest glibc.
Regards,
-- gotom
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