Bug#380620: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#380620: slapd hangs on upgrade

Mon Jul 31 17:56:52 UTC 2006

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:57:33PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.3.24-2
> Severity: important

> slapd tries to adduser while slapd is down.

Why does this fail?

System users shouldn't be stored in LDAP itself -- so adduser --system
should never depend on a running LDAP server for its work.  Indeed, in this
case it's quite impossible due to a bootstrapping problem every time slapd
starts up.

If the addition is failing because you're running libnss-ldap pointed at the
local system and it's hanging, this issue is discussed in bug #379728.

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