Why is the sssd daemon throwing 'dereference processing failed : Input/output error' on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system configured as Active Directory client using sssd, sssd daemon is logging the following message in /var/log/messages :
sssd[be[AD.EXAMPLE.COM]]: dereference processing failed : Input/output error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • LDAP server (Active Directory server/ Red Hat Directory Server(RHDS) / OpenLDAP / SunOne Directory server)

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