[K12OSN] ldap will not start on server

[Brian Chivers]

Have you tried this

http://www.vcsvikings.org/docuwiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DisasterRecovery

Brian

David Hopkins wrote:
> 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
> 
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