Re: after power failure ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)

[Jamie Davey <jamie.davey@nqe.com>]

Sounds as though the BDB database didn't appreciate the sudden power 
loss! ( I know from bitter experience that it is pretty intolerant 
ounder these circumstances ;-))

Berkely comes with a database recovery tool to get this back (check out 
their website for details), maybe someone else here can help?

If you're in dire straits (sounds like you might be!) the quick & dirty 
method is to rename the database directory (if  you're in doubt the path 
to this is stored in your slapd.conf file under the Database directory 
directive), and restart slapd. At this point the process will work but 
you're directory is obviously empty. You need to restore it from a 
recent ldif backup using ldapadd.

Apologies to the more qualified posters for the kluge!

Hopefully this will be helpful.

Jamie

hesmat@future-group.com wrote:

> dear all , 
>
> the server which holds my open ldap was suddenly shutdown due to power failure  
> when i bring it back i was not able to connect to ldap server with msg  
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)
> although when using pstree -p i can see slapd process running
> what should i do to fix this error 
>
> regards
>
> Hussein Esmat  
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