ldap2 kernel: pid 18816 (slapd), uid 389: exited on signal 6Signal 6 is SIGABRT, no? I'd guess that slapd is assert()ing something. There should be something about that in the logs or stderr or such. You also should be able to coerce a core dump out of such a situation. I note that the "uid 389" many times leads to a file permission error creating the core file -- check your OS configuration carefully that it's a place writable to the dying slapd.
--Quanah
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