slapd won't start and problems with syslog

[Tim Garton <tim.garton@monsoonworks.com>]

All,
   Running OpenLDAP 2.3.32 on Ubuntu 6.06.1 x86.  slapd fails to start. 
 If anyone could shed some light on why that would be great.  Below is 
strace output.  It looks like it is having some problems with syslog. 
Is there anyway to have slapd use some other logging mechanism?

strace output:
root@ssdelta:/var/run/slapd# strace slapd -h 'ldap:/// ldaps:/// ldapi:///'
execve("/usr/sbin/slapd", ["slapd", "-h", "ldap:/// ldaps:///
ldapi:///"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="ssdelta", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x8143000
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7f73000
.
. (lines omitted for brevity sake)
.
open("/root/ldaprc", O_RDONLY)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/root/.ldaprc", O_RDONLY)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("ldaprc", O_RDONLY)                = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)          = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0
time([1175874880])                      = 1175874880
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY)        = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1017, ...}) = 0
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1017, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7f70000
read(4, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0"...,
4096) = 1017
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0xb7f70000, 4096)                = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1017, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1017, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1017, ...}) = 0
send(3, "<167>Apr  6 08:54:40 slapd[28178"..., 145, MSG_NOSIGNAL

and slapd hangs at this point.