Re: Can't login anymore directly on the server except for root

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Hi Roman,

On  Do 12 Feb 2026 09:54:53 CET, roman.meier wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm running an old buster debian edu server for some years now.
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> A few months ago the harddrive started to fail. Consequently I=20=20
>=20mirrored the faulty one to a new one using dd, which fixed my=20=20
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> About 2 days ago I tried a glibc update. I knew that this is a risky=20=
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> Since I still had the broken hard drive available I simply mirrored=20=20
>=20it again to my harddrive. Again, this worked nicely and the system=20=
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> I had similiar issues like this before in the past and it occurs=20=20
>=20e.g. when the date is not set correctly. This time it appears to be=20=
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> Kind regards,
> Roman

This sounds like the LDAP server is not running. Do you find any items=20=
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