Hi! I'm using CentOS 5.1 (x86_64) machines which authenticate using LDAP. At the start of booting I get messages like this: udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://ldap.server.example.com/: Can't contact LDAP server udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP server as (null) - Can't contact LDAP server udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldaps://ldap.server.example.com/: Can't contact LDAP server udevd[1158]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 1 seconds)... This escaletes to 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 seconds. After that (==timeouting for 2 minutes) booting continues without problem, so this is not really a showstopper, but inconvenient. Googling around revealed some fixes for Debian/Ubuntu. The bottom line i that udevd needs some user/group that is not in the local files but on the LDAP-server. The fix usually was adding this user (nvram, scanner ...) or group locally. The problem is, that on these systems after the last attempt something like udevd[1158]: lookup_group: error resolving group 'rdma': Illegal seek is printed out, makeing it easy to find the right group/user. Is there a way to get CentOS to a similar behaviour, making it easier to find the culprit? Bernhard _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos