Re: Slapd restarting slowly

["Joe Tseng" <joe_tseng@hotmail.com>]

I found the link below that sounds exactly like my problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553032

I did notice httpd was hung.  I configured it so it'd auth against LDAP for 
my SVN repos; it started right up by hand after slapd was running.  My 
rpcidmapd also hung - is there a dependency there too?

BTW "bind_policy soft" works for me.  Thank you for the help!

- Joe

(FYI I'm running F12 because that's what was available for Amahi back in 
November.  Since Amahi 6 for F14 is released today I'll work on upgrading my 
PDC this weekend.)


-----Original Message----- 
From: Buchan Milne
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 5:11 AM
To: Joe Tseng
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Slapd restarting slowly


----- "Joe Tseng" <joe_tseng@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I recently set up a file server using Fedora and I configured it to
> run as a PDC with Samba and OpenLDAP.  It had been running very
> smoothly until just last night when I discovered when I tried to
> restart the slapd service it would just sit there for a few minutes.
> After it did start I looked in /var/log/messages to see if I could
> glean some clues; it seems as part of "service slapd start" the system
> would request information from slapd in order to restart slapd.

The question here is, what is "the system". The answer is, NSS, most likely 
NSS calling nss_ldap.

>  Seems
> pretty circular to me...  I did not note any type of success message
> when slapd finally did wake up from suspended animation.

It's not really slapd that was suspended, as is evident from your logs, but 
nss_ldap.

Did you try and restart any other services while ldap was not running? Did 
you notice they exhibited the same behaviour?

Anyway, easiest fix for now:

echo "bind_policy soft" >> /etc/ldap.conf

Regards,
Buchan