I've have had the same problem, found the reason and solved it. The problem is caused by the usage of the non existing group 'nvram' in /etc/udev//rules.d/40-permissions.rules: ... KERNEL=="nvram", GROUP="nvram" ...
When udev starts, is looks up 'nvram'. While 'nvram' could not be found in /etc/group NSS tries to connect the ldap server. As result the boot sequence stops. To fix this problem is very easy: Add the local group 'nvram' to /etc/groups After that booting with nss_ldap and bind_policy hard works without any problem. -- udevd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server https://launchpad.net/bugs/51315 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
