Re: OpenLDAP won't start

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:29 PM +0200 Casper Angelo 
<c.angelo@ofir.com> wrote:

> I have a problem with OpenLDAP (2.2.23) on Debian - it won't start, and
> I dont seem to get any understandable error :-/ It worked fine until a
> couple of days ago. It's in a replication chain, so I suspect that it
> recieved som kind of malformed entry from its master.
>
> Just starting it with
>
>    #/etc/init.d/slapd start
>
> Starts the process, but it just goes to 99.9% cpu usage and stays there,
> and nothing else happens. I tried waiting to see if it just spend a lot
> of time initializing the dbd, but after it ran unchanged for over an
> hour i stopped it.
>
> Running slapd in debug mode:
>
>    #slapd -d 1
>
> Shows me that the schemas are loaded properly, and the debug output
> stops with this:
>
> ------------ begin
> slapd startup: initiated.
> backend_statup: starting "o=Ofir"
> bdb_db_open: dbenv_open(/var/lib/ldap)
>
> ------------ end
>
> And after that - nothing but 99.9% load
>
>
>    #lsof -i tcp:ldap
>
> Shows nothing, and thereby reveals that there is no listening ldap

Did you have an unclean shutdown of your slapd process?  You may want to 
try running db_recover in the database directory while slapd is stopped, 
and then restart slapd.

--Quanah

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