Updated RHEL 4 to 5, ldap won't start now

[Dan Coutu]

Frank DiPrete wrote:
> Not a definitivie answer, but the RH convention for a config file change
> is to include a <conf_file>.rpmnew file with the rpm. If present you can
> check the conf file against it to find the parameter change ...
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There is no such file. It was the first thing that I looked for.
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:25 -0400, Dan Coutu wrote:
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>> I'm a bit stumped. I've been banging my head against the wall with this 
>> all day now. I've upgraded a RHEL 4 system to version 5. It runs ldap 
>> and does login authentication against the ldap server. When the system 
>> booted after the upgrade it failed to start the ldap server and 
>> displayed the amazingly informative error message:
>>
>> slaptest: bad configuration file!
>>
>> Wow. I'd bet there's a problem with the configuration file. But of 
>> course there isn't. I found note indicating that this message can happen 
>> if the files that are 'include'd within the configuration file are owned 
>> by root rather than by ldap. Sure enough, the included files were owned 
>> by root. Aha! says I and merrily changes the ownership of the files to 
>> be ldap.
>>
>> Sad to say this didn't resolve the problem. I've tried every variation 
>> of the debug and verbose switches associated with slaptest and slapd but 
>> get no insight into the real problem. Running slaptest with debug on 
>> gives me something like this:
>>
>> slaptest init: initiated tool.
>> slap_sasl_init: initialized!
>> bdb_back_initialize: initialize BDB backend
>> bdb_back_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.4.20: (January 
>> 10, 2006)
>> hdb_back_initialize: initialize HDB backend
>> hdb_back_initialize: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.4.20: (January 
>> 10, 2006)
>> bdb_db_init: Initializing BDB database
>>  >>> dnPrettyNormal: <dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>
>> <<< dnPrettyNormal: <dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>, <dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>
>>  >>> dnPrettyNormal: <cn=Manager,dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>
>> <<< dnPrettyNormal: <cn=Manager,dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>, 
>> <cn=manager,dc=snowy-owl,dc=com>
>> slaptest: bad configuration file!
>>
>> I don't understand that dnPrettyNormal nonsense but the rest seems to 
>> make sense.
>>
>> Is there a way I get better detail as to exactly what is wrong so that I 
>> can fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
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