Enabling ldap causes freeradius server to not start up.

[Alan DeKok]

Jesper Klit Jensen wrote:
> Freeradius: 2.1.6 OS: Open Suse 11.0 LDAP 2.4.9
> 
> Problem is when running radiusd in forground with logging:
> Thread spawned new child 1. Total threads in pool: 1
> Thread 1 waiting to be assigned a request
> Thread pool initialized
> radiusd: #### Opening IP addresses and Ports ####
> listen {
>        type = "auth"
>        ipaddr = x.x.x.x
>        port = 0
> }
> listen {
>        type = "acct"
>        ipaddr = x.x.x.x
>        port = 0
> 
> No more after that. It will only startup if ldap is total disabled.

  What does that mean?  You turn off the LDAP server?  Or you delete
LDAP from the FreeRADIUS configuration?

> LDAP user account works.
> 
> Please help me with some hints for finding this problem.

  Use strace to see what it's doing, and where it's blocking.

  Odds are that FreeRADIUS is doing a system call, and the OS is never
returning.  Fix the OS, and FreeRADIUS will work.

  Alan DeKok.