In one of our test envs, had the path wrong in replication config for = encryption artifacts:

*** Conf excerpt: *** syncrepl =E2=80=A6 tls_key=3D/opt/symas/etc/openldap/file-name.pem ***

Which gives generic error: *** Log Trace: *** an 27 17:25:17 sapz1a slapd[6203]: slapd starting =E2=80=A6 TLS context initialization failed (-1) Jan 27 17:25:17 hostname slapd[6203]: do_syncrepl: rid=3D031 rc -1 = retrying (4 retries left) ***

Would have been helpful for the message to specify which artifact = wasn=E2=80=99t found, the line number of the config, or some other way = of narrowing the problem.

=E2=80=94 Shawn