Dear List,

I hope that somebody can help me here.

My OpenLDAP starts fine using “slapd -d -1 -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d”. Everything is OK if I start the service using that command. But if I try to use the service “/bin/systemctl start  slapd.service” it fails to start.

“/bin/systemctl start  slapd.service

Job for slapd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status slapd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.”

The output of “systemctl status slapd.service”:

● slapd.service - OpenLDAP Server Daemon

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/slapd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-09-01 10:37:55 CEST; 7s ago

     Docs: man:slapd

           man:slapd-config

           man:slapd-hdb

           man:slapd-mdb

           file:///usr/share/doc/openldap-servers/guide.html

  Process: 45146 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ${SLAPD_URLS} $SLAPD_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

  Process: 45132 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/openldap/check-config.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Starting OpenLDAP Server Daemon...

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo runuser[45135]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user ldap by (uid=0)

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo runuser[45135]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user ldap

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo slapd[45146]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.40 (Nov  3 2016 18:02:29) $

                                                            mockbuild@x86-ol7-builder-01:/builddir/build/BUILD/openldap-2.4.40/openldap-2.4.40/servers/slapd

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: slapd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenLDAP Server Daemon.

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Unit slapd.service entered failed state.

Sep 01 10:37:55 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: slapd.service failed.

Output of “journalctl -xe”

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo polkitd[772]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:51631:336035477 (system bus name :1.16850 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fall

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Starting OpenLDAP Server Daemon...

-- Subject: Unit slapd.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit slapd.service has begun starting up.

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo runuser[51640]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user ldap by (uid=0)

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo runuser[51640]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user ldap

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo slapd[51651]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.40 (Nov  3 2016 18:02:29) $

                                                            mockbuild@x86-ol7-builder-01:/builddir/build/BUILD/openldap-2.4.40/openldap-2.4.40/servers/slapd

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: slapd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenLDAP Server Daemon.

-- Subject: Unit slapd.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

--

-- Unit slapd.service has failed.

--

-- The result is failed.

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: Unit slapd.service entered failed state.

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo systemd[1]: slapd.service failed.

Sep 01 11:24:06 tmv2312.devlab.de.tmo polkitd[772]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:51631:336035477 (system bus name :1.16850, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit

I don’t see any message that would help me to understand the reason for the failure.

The content of slapd.service:

“[Unit]

Description=OpenLDAP Server Daemon

After=syslog.target network-online.target

Documentation=man:slapd

Documentation=man:slapd-config

Documentation=man:slapd-hdb

Documentation=man:slapd-mdb

Documentation=file:///usr/share/doc/openldap-servers/guide.html

[Service]

Type=forking

PIDFile=/var/run/openldap/slapd.pid

Environment="SLAPD_URLS=ldap:/// ldapi:///" "SLAPD_OPTIONS="

EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/slapd

ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/openldap/check-config.sh

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ${SLAPD_URLS} $SLAPD_OPTIONS

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target”

Where does the script take “${SLAPD_URLS}” and “$SLAPD_OPTIONS” from?

Thank you very much,

Michael