James B. Byrne
2007-Sep-27 20:01 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS-5 - Suffering from LDAP experimentation
I was playing aeound with the GUI authentication configuration and was called away from my desk after I had configured the LDAP DC entries but before I had tried to start the ldap server or do much of anything else. When I returned the terminal session was screen-saver locked and entering my user password did not make it respond. I kept getting a time-out error. Rebooting took forever and was delayed for long periods at two points that I do not recall as being problems before; Loading IPtablesv6? and Starting system message bus. More importantly the user GUI takes forever to start. I am seeing these entries in the /var/log/merssages filr (vis ssh login through another system.): Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Sep 27 15:37:21 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server ... Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable So, how do I undo whateever it is I borked when I experimented with LDAP? This is a rtestbox aso a re-install is not out of the question. I am digest subscriber so if you could copy me directly on any reply to the list I would be very appreciative. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
James A. Peltier
2007-Sep-27 20:09 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS-5 - Suffering from LDAP experimentation
James B. Byrne wrote:> I was playing aeound with the GUI authentication configuration and was > called away from my desk after I had configured the LDAP DC entries but > before I had tried to start the ldap server or do much of anything else. > When I returned the terminal session was screen-saver locked and entering > my user password did not make it respond. I kept getting a time-out error. > Rebooting took forever and was delayed for long periods at two points that > I do not recall as being problems before; Loading IPtablesv6? and Starting > system message bus. More importantly the user GUI takes forever to start. > > I am seeing these entries in the /var/log/merssages filr (vis ssh login > through another system.): > > Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server > ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server > Sep 27 15:37:13 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server > (sleeping 8 seconds)... > Sep 27 15:37:21 inet02 perl: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server > ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server > ... > Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server > ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server > Sep 27 15:43:26 inet02 gdm[3483]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - > Server is unavailable > > So, how do I undo whateever it is I borked when I experimented with LDAP? > > This is a rtestbox aso a re-install is not out of the question. > > I am digest subscriber so if you could copy me directly on any reply to > the list I would be very appreciative. > > Sincerely, >Try booting into single user mode and reverting the changes back. This can be done at the grub prompt by adding a S to the end of the kernel line -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-291-3610 Fax : 604-291-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com