Re: Newbie - OpenLDAP won't start

[Ziya Suzen <ziya@ripe.net>]

I am far from being a BerkeleyDB expert, but have you tried cleaning the
database directory `rm /var/openldap-data/*`?

On 2003-06-12 15:03:23 +0000, Gary Allen Vollink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2.1.21 (same occurred on 2.1.19, but I built the latest anyway)...  I
> can't get OpenLDAP to start a.  ( I have seen MANY posts in archive of
> people with similar issues, but never an answer that I could apply to this
> situation. )
> 
> I have recently Downloaded, Configured, Compiled and installed these
> packages (RedHat 7.2):
> 
> Sleepycat Berkeley - db-4.1.25
> openssl - 0.9.7b
> openldap - 2.1.21 (uses the above packages)
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
>   --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-syslog \
>   --enable-dynamic --disable-ipv6 --with-readline --with-threads \
>   --with-tls=openssl --enable-slapd --enable-cleartext --enable-crypt \
>   --enable-bdb --enable-monitor --enable-slurpd --with-gnu-ld
> 
> All packages built successfully with zero errors.  Here is my Config, sans
> comments.
> 
> -+-+-+-slapd.conf-+-+-+-
> include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
> include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
> pidfile /var/slapd.pid
> argsfile /var/slapd.args
> access to dn.base="" by * read
> access to * by self write by users read by anonymous auth
> database bdb
> suffix "dc=cvweb"
> rootdn "cn=manager,dc=cvweb"
> rootpw {SSHA}HV...
> directory /var/openldap-data
> index objectClass eq
> -+-+-+-end-+-+-+-
> 
> Every how-to and readme I read says that I don't need to create the
> database first - just run it. But it doesn't run - here is the info from
> my running it /usr/libexec/slapd -d 4
> 
> -+-+-+--d 4 output-+-+-+-
> daemon_init: <null>
> bdb_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19,
> 2002) bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database
> bdb_db_open: dc=corvu
> bdb(dc=corvu): unable to join the environment
> bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
> backend_startup: bi_db_open(0) failed! (11)
> bdb(dc=corvu): txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment
> configured for the transaction subsystem bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint
> failed: Invalid argument (22)
> slapd stopped.
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
> -+-+-+-end-+-+-+-
> 
> And finally, /var/openldap-data
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 21:19 .
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 10 09:37 ..
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 10 21:19 __db.001
> 
> The above (__db.001) is created automatically by running OpenLDAP.
> 
> Could somebody tell me what stupid thing I am missing!?
> 
> Thank you,
> Gary Allen Vollink
> 
>