Latest FCs and LDAP

[Brian Gaynor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Haney
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:13 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Latest FCs and LDAP
> 
> Okay, so what's the deal with the latest openldap versions 
> with FC5 or 6 
> and hanging on reboots if you have ldap in nsswitch.conf?  I 
> have over a 
> dozen FC boxes that I use ldap with and I'm getting extremely 
> frustrated 
> with the last couple of openldap packages I've updated to.  Each and 
> every one of them hangs on 'Starting System Message Bus....' UNLESS I 
> remove ldap from nsswitch.conf.
> 
> The only known fix is to pull that from nsswitch prior to a 
> reboot, but 
> this is just silly.  I have a half dozen other distros from Debian to 
> Gentoo and Suse with these versions and they don't have the 
> problem, so 
> what gives?  I can't continue to kluge my way through this 
> every time I 
> reboot these servers.  Fortunately I don't need to reboot very often, 
> but unfortunately when I do need to, I forget to do this and have to 
> reboot multiple times.
> 
> Any hints on a fix?  Or a timeline to a fix?

Mark -

As I recall the easy fix was to reorder a service it depends on to start
earlier in the boot sequence. Sorry I can't remember what right now - I'll
check my notes at work and post tomorrow if no one else has. There were bugs
raised for this...

Brian