Re: slapd giving me startup errors.

[Peter Stickney <pstickney@pvpsc.com>]

Peter Stickney wrote:

> I'm trying to start up an ldap server with openldap 2.3.4.  Ive got 
> slackware 10.1.0, kernel 2.6.12.3.  I found this article [ 
> http://docs.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/01/1318258&tid=29&tid=14&tid=94 
> ] and have been following it.  Only when I go to start up slapd at the 
> end of the article I get an error.
>
> I use the command  ./slapd -f 
> /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -u ldap -d9
>
> There's a lot of output, but at the end I get
>
> slapd startup: initiated.
> backend_startup_one: starting "cn=config"
> backend_startup_one: starting "dc=pvpsc,dc=com"
> bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable
> backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (-1)
> slapd shutdown: initiated
> ====> bdb_cache_release_all
> bdb_db_close: alock_close failed
> slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
> slapd stopped.
>
> I have tried looking for the "alock package is unstable" line over the 
> internet, but havent found much of anything.  Any help would be 
> greatly appreciated.  thanks
>
> -peter

Solved my own problem here.  It was a permissions error on the 
openldap-data dir.  it was root:root.   Changed it to ldap:users.

-peter