Re: Newbie - OpenLDAP won't start

["Gary Allen Vollink" <gvldap@corvu.com>]

Ziya,

Alas, yes, I have tried deleting the file in this directory as well.  I
have also - in frustration - set the directory permission to 777 (wide
open) - but the OpenLDAP program seems to have set it back to 700
automagically.

Should I try something other than Berkeley DB?  The OpenLDAP home page
seems to suggest BDB as the best supported, but it seems (from having
looked over the list) that most are using Gnu DB Manager.

I just want it to work, I'm willing to try almost anything (not willing to
try RPMs).

Thank you,
Gary Allen Vollink

>
> 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
>>
>>