[Samba] Samba hangs the boot on Gentoo.

[tms3 at tms3.com]

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>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I came across with the problem with booting my Gentoo system.
>> Yesterday I installed samba and when I turned on my notebook today it 
>> stops
>> booting at starting up the samba daemon. It goes until:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> * samba -> start: smbd ...

I had some difficulties a few years back with Samba/LDAP nssldap, 
pam_ldap and pam. The system would hang for some 10 minutes at 
startup. The problem was that nssldap defaults to  bind_policy hard, 
and as nssldap fired before the ldap server started (from the nssldap 
conf file):
# Reconnect policy: hard (default) will retry connecting to
# the software with exponential backoff, soft will fail
# immediately.

changing the value to
bind_policy soft

rectified the situation.
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>>
>> ... and then freezes ... Maybe the problem is somehow related to my 
>> Wi-Fi
>> connection on notebook and Samba is looking for Internet connection 
>> and
>> waiting for it to be established? Maybe you can give any advice on how 
>> to
>> boot to my system without loading samba and uninstalling it?
>>
>
> Do an interactive boot. Press I when it asks you to do in the boot
> process. Then do not start the samba daemon.
>
> John
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