libnss_ldap

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Scott J. Henson wrote:

> More of my curiosity hit and it seems like dapper won't even boot with
> libnss-ldap enabled.  It just sits there starting the kernel event
> something.  It seems as though its taking forever to contact the ldap
> server.  I can get it to boot if I move the nsswitch.conf out of the
> way, boot into single user mode, move it back, start nscd, and then
> continue to boot.  Is anyone else seeing that behavior?

hmm, works here (dapper), see below

> Also, on my system nscd didn't create /var/db/nscd nore /var/run/nscd,
> so it won't start to begin with.  I'm going to file a bug on that, but
> it seems like dapper has some major issues working with ldap and such.
> Is anyone else seeing that?

yes, these two bugs need to be fixed:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/30141
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/3365

the latter is fixed for Debian since last August.. (and the former is not 
an issue on D.)


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