Re: slapd hangs on startup from unclean shutdown

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, October 06, 2008 10:25 AM -0500 Adam Williams 
<awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:

> I'm running openldap 2.3.43 on a Fedora 9 Linux x64-bit system.  I've had
> to hard reboot this system a few times without cleanly shutting it down.
> upon startup, most of the time slapd hangs when trying to start due to
> not shutting down cleanly.  The only way to get it going again is to go
> into single user mode, delete everything in /var/lib/ldap and then
> loading a nightly backup.ldif with slapadd.  Is are there any
> settings/configuration changes I can make to slapd to have it start up
> from unclean shutdowns?

Stop hard booting your system.  You can try removing the alock file in 
/var/lib/ldap and running db_recover manually prior to starting slapd 
again, but there's no guarantee the DB you end up with is what you want.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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