namcd becomes unresponsive for userid / group resolution

  • 3684355
  • 26-Mar-2008
  • 16-Mar-2012

Environment


Novell Open Enterprise Server 1 (OES1) Support Pack 2 Linux

Situation

Applications which use LUM to perform authentication and name resolution either fail to respond or are very slow to respond.

LUM users are unable to login via LUM enabled services.

Use of cache-only=yes parameter in /etc/nam.conf lessens the severity of the symptoms


Resolution

Apply the following patches:

novell-lum-2.2.0.14-2 (Patch 11949) or newer. Patch 11949 athttps://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/2372a79c894457e24ea244d739929840.html

NLDAPbase-8.7.3.9-71 and NLDAPsdk-8.7.3.9-71 (Patch 11668) or newer. Patch 11668 is available at https://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/b2d506dbb5a7cc6740f797fdf6a3c991.html

Note: novell-lum-2.2.0.14-2 is newer than novell-lum-2.2.0.16-1 which was not released as an official patch.

Note: The NLDAPbase and NLDAPsdk available in patch 11668 are newer than the packages that ship with eDirectory 8.7.3 SP9. These fixes are also available in eDirectory 8.8.2 and eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10.