On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:56 -0700, Tim Alberts wrote: > Well I got two servers using LDAP authentication and both systems > frequently lockup on power up when 'starting message bus' is. Looking > at the system log, something is trying to access the LDAP service, while > LDAP hasn't started yet? > > May 25 14:35:37 msi1 rpc.statd[2422]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server > May 25 14:35:37 msi1 rpc.statd[2422]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... > May 25 14:35:38 msi1 dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server > May 25 14:35:38 msi1 dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... > > > So how is this fixed? Usually it helps to add the problematic service ('dbus' in your case) to nss_initgroups_ignoreusers in /etc/ldap.conf, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206399 Jan