The problem is clear. No networking when udev attempts to configure devices with certain ownerships presumably and yet the startup scripts to setup networking come after the udev ones:
find /etc/rc?.d -type l -ls|egrep '(udev|networking)' 3646856 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 15 2006 /etc/rcS.d/S10udev -> ../init.d/udev 3646868 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 15 2006 /etc/rcS.d/S40networking -> ../init.d/networking 3647204 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 11 14:59 /etc/rcS.d/S37udev-finish -> ../init.d/udev-finish guess what udev starts up before networking....and it finishes before networking starts. As an initial fix please reorder these? Even doing this: files ldap [UNAVAIL=return] does not work. Strangely enough if I first go into rescue mode and then let it resume it works?? Perhaps enough time has gone by? All this with hardy/i386 April 7, 2008 -- udevd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs