Re: openldap (or is it nss_ldap?) not answering

[Stefano Maffulli <smaffulli@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:00 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount
<quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:
> When this happens, can you run a manual ldapsearch of the server (i.e.,
> does slapd respond to your queries?).  If not, it sounds like slapd is
> experiencing some type of lockup, which would be problematic.  You
> shouldn't have to restart slapd to get it to be responsive again.

Unfortunately I had the chance to experience a lock again.  I had the
chance to see that ldapsearch was responding indeed...
csv-mail-01:~# ldapsearch -x  -b 'dc=csv-ls,dc=com' 'objectclass=*'

Dovecot was up but with 2 procesess zombies (dovecot-auth) and apache
leaving these traces in /var/log/messages:
Nov 12 14:41:11 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP
server after 1 attempt(s)
Nov 12 14:41:24 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Nov 12 14:41:24 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP
server after 1 attempt(s)
Nov 12 14:44:10 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Nov 12 14:44:10 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP
server after 1 attempt(s)

Why is apache2 using nss_ldap?

A restart of slapd solved the issue.  I will change the backend and
wait for a new debian package ... what else can I do?

/stef