[Bug 182464] dbus-daemon hangs while starting on a system with ldap authorisation enabled.

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--- Comment #37 from Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>  2009-09-30 16:36:57 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #32)
> A reasonable fix that has worked for Me so far it to modify /etc/ldap.conf add 
> `bind_policy soft' to the end of the file.
> 
> after adding that line, the system no longer goes into long delay loops while
> booting, and I am still able to use all functionality.
> 
> My question, to add to this bug, is, Why does this relatively minor policy
> change seem to fix it for Me??  

It's not a minor change:
# Reconnect policy: hard (default) will retry connecting to
# the software with exponential backoff, soft will fail
# immediately.

To some extent it comes down to whether LDAP is critical or not.

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