I recently set up a file server using Fedora and I configured it to run as a PDC with Samba and OpenLDAP. It had been running very smoothly until just last night when I discovered when I tried to restart the slapd service it would just sit there for a few minutes. After it did start I looked in /var/log/messages to see if I could glean some clues; it seems as part of "service slapd start" the system would request information from slapd in order to restart slapd. Seems pretty circular to me... I did not note any type of success message when slapd finally did wake up from suspended animation.
I did not set slapd to generate a log file previously but after I put in that parameter in slapd.conf and restarted the service I still didn't get any output. I did get this from /var/log/messages: $ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages Feb 28 21:00:11 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)... Feb 28 21:00:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Feb 28 21:00:23 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:23 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:23 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 16 seconds)... Feb 28 21:00:39 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:39 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:00:39 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)... Feb 28 21:01:11 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:01:11 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:01:11 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 64 seconds)... Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)... Feb 28 21:02:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Feb 28 21:02:27 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:27 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:27 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 16 seconds)... Feb 28 21:02:43 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:43 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:02:43 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)... Feb 28 21:02:50 server0 smbd_audit: jtseng|10.1.0.106|create_file|fail (Is a directory)|0x20089|pictures Feb 28 21:02:50 server0 smbd_audit: jtseng|10.1.0.106|create_file|fail (Is a directory)|0x20089|pictures/porsche918 Feb 28 21:03:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:03:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:03:15 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 64 seconds)... Feb 28 21:04:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://hda.at.home: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:04:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server Feb 28 21:04:19 server0 slapd[5555]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable I stopped the log when slapd was up and running: $ sudo service slapd restart Stopping slapd: [ OK ] Starting slapd: [ OK ] $ sudo service slapd status slapd (pid 5726) is running... $ ps -ef | grep slapd ldap 5726 1 0 21:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// -u ldap jtseng 5756 5501 0 21:05 pts/2 00:00:00 grep slapd My includes for slapd are as follows: include /etc/openldap/schema/corba.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/duaconf.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/dyngroup.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/java.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/misc.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/openldap.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/ppolicy.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/collective.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/samba.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/autofs.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/ldapns.schema I imagine I won't need all of those but aside from core, inetorgperson, openldap, samba, autofs and ldapns I wouldn't know what I can discard. I know including various schemas can add to the boot time but this has not shown itself to be a problem in the recent past. As far as users are concerned it's just me, the wife, my son and three workstations. I hope someone can clue me in... Thanks. - Joe
