Comment 86 for bug 155947

We really need to set this bind_policy to soft, or else the machine just won't boot. It stops at klogd. I just tried with hardy.

So, after setting it to soft using a rescue disk, boot proceeded as normal. I didn't even touch the timeouts. Now, the ldap user obviously can't login yet in my scenario because it's a notebook with wireless, so there is no network setup yet at the gdm prompt. But this is another issue. The local user login works.

You also have upgrade issues to consider. Now we seem to have reverted to upstream's default of using just /etc/ldap.conf for both pam_ldap and nss_ldap. FWIW, I agree with this change. Debian was the only kid in the block with renamed config files for these two libraries, and they both share a lot of config options. So, these settings need to be migrated to /etc/ldap.conf, or at least a warning should be issued. (If this is already done, then please ignore what I just wrote).