[K12OSN] ldap will not start on server

["David Hopkins" <dahopkins429 gmail com>]

I go on vacation, so of course the server has problems :)

The linux server used for ldap authentication crashed yesterday.  Now, ldap will not start successfully.  This means that samba will not start and that means users can' t log onto the windows servers..  Also, I have a slave ldap server running and we are currently
authenticating against that server for the linux logins.  However, my
windows terminal servers want to use the main authentication server.

So, I had the tech coordinator try running the following.

sladp_db_recover -v -h /var/lib/ldap

but this does not correct the issue since then running 

/etc/init.d/ldap start will not start ldap.  It returns a message that slapd failed to start.

The tech director is now trying:

slapd_db_recover -v -h /var/lib/ldap
chown -R ldap.ldap /var/lib/ldap
/etc/init.d/ldap start

but I am not overly optimistic.  So, the question:

Can I just delete all of the db.001, db.0002, etc files and have slapd rebuild them without losing the database?  Then, I can run the above commands again?  Finally, there is a 
replog.lck file which I had him delete (it was size zero), but this had not effect on ldap starting.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins