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