OpenLDAP Faq-O-Matic : Trash :
slapd segfaults on startup on SuSe SLES 8SuSE 8.0 SLES packs a boatload of packages which all get installed in the default install scheme..These packages are sometimes old and obsolete..uninstalling them is a pain because you run into dependency hell-esp with packages like db4 which is used by a ton of packages..
I found two ways of solving this problem..When installing SuSe itself we choose a minimal set of packages.this is after all an ENTERPRISE server platform,I don't need OpenOffice and a ton of KDE/GNOME packages:-))..this way we have a clean base system over which we can build and install our own packages..
The other option involves messing around with ldconfig..this could be tricky sometimes for ex in situations where another application is using the older version of the shared libs..
Anyway,I was able to get openldap 2.1.22 up and running along with Berkley db4.1.25
Build and install Berkley DB first and then only install openldap pointing to the Berkley lib and include dir you installed recently
srinravi@india.hp.com