Thanks. Here are the results. I can start googling this result, but I am kind of a newbie at openldap, so if you know something obvious, let me know. Thank you very much.

# service slapd debug slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration slapd: [INFO] Halting OpenLDAP... slapd: [INFO] Can't read PID file, to stop OpenLDAP try: /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop slapd: [INFO] No db_recover done slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP... slapd: [OK] File descriptor limit set to 1024 5859a359 @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.36 (Apr 8 2014 12:06:19) $ username@itds120.umt.edu:/u01/app/openldap-2.4.36/servers/slapd 5859a359 hdb_db_open: database "dc=umt,dc=edu": alock package is unstable. 5859a359 backend_startup_one (type=hdb, suffix="dc=umt,dc=edu"): bi_db_open failed! (-1) 5859a359 slapd stopped.

-----Original Message----- From: Clément OUDOT [mailto:clem.oudot@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 2:31 PM To: Singley, Norman Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: PID File

2016-12-20 19:34 GMT+01:00 Singley, Norman Norman.Singley@mso.umt.edu:

Hi Folks –

I am getting the No PID file for openLDAP error when starting/stopping slapd.

run]# /etc/init.d/slapd stop

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Halting OpenLDAP...

slapd: [INFO] Can't read PID file, to stop OpenLDAP try: /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop

[root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd forcestop

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP with force...

slapd: [INFO] Found no OpenLDAP process running with ldap://oldap.umt.edu:389 ldaps://oldap.umt.edu:636

slapd: [INFO] Killing OpenLDAP replication with force...

slapd: [INFO] Found no slurpd process running

[root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd

6723 ? 00:00:00 slapd

[root@itds120 run]# /etc/init.d/slapd start

slapd: [INFO] Using /etc/default/slapd for configuration

slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP configuration test...

slapd: [OK] OpenLDAP configuration test successful

slapd: [INFO] No db_recover done

slapd: [INFO] Launching OpenLDAP...

slapd: [OK] File descriptor limit set to 1024

slapd: [ALERT] No PID file for OpenLDAP

[root@itds120 run]# ps -ea | grep slapd

6723 ? 00:00:00 slapd

It seems to show that openLDAP is running on this box, but I can’t connect to it.

The slapd.conf file is attached.

I see a lot of results about this error out there on the web, but most of the fixes like manually creating the pid file don’t seem to work. If anyone has any tips I can try, it would be greatly appreciated.

This is a standalone (test oldap, running 2.4.36) on redhat 6.

Hi,

seems you are using LTB OpenLDAP packages, or at least LTB OpenLDAP init script. Try to run: # service slapd debug

You should get information on why it is not starting.

Clément.