Hi,

I'm not sure wether this is an OpenLDAP issue or a Debian issue...

When installing OpenLDAP 2.4.33 from source on Debian 6.0.4 with back-sql support, I'm unable to make it start at boot.

I tested it a few times to isolate the problem, and the simple fact of installing OpenLDAP with "--enable-sql" seems to be the cause. My "/etc/init.d/slapd" file works fine, but the service won't start at boot.

Does anybody have an idea ?

Below the details of my tests, I tried two configurations, without and with back-sql enabled :

Config 1°/ I installed OpenLDAP 2.4.33 WITHOUT back-sql support. (plain "./configure") I installed an adequate "/etc/init.d/slapd" file (inspired from the file shipped with the Debian package installation), and then I installed the slapd service (update-rc.d slapd defaults). When I reboot the debian server, everything works fine, slapd starts.

Config 2°/ Same installation, but this time WITH back-sql support (./configure --enable-sql) Like before, I deployed my "/etc/init.d/slapd" file. The file works fine ("/etc/init.d/slapd start" starts the OpenLDAP server) Then I install the slapd service, it seems to install well (update-rc.d slapd defaults). But when I reboot, slapd fails to start. I tried the following commands : # service slapd start Starting OpenLDAP: slapd failed! # /etc/init.d/slapd start Starting OpenLDAP: slapd. # service slapd stop Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd

So it seems the "slapd" service can not be started by the "service" command (and thus cannot be launched a boot).

NOTE that the ONLY difference between Config 1 and Config 2 is that I compiled OpenLDAP with "--enable-sql". At this point, I don't even use a back-sql backend (I'm still with the default configuration, using the bdb backend).

Does anybody have an idea what's happening ?

One last thing : I tried also to compile OpenLDAP with back-sql as a dynamic loaded module (./configure --enable-modules --enable-sql=mod). Same result, if my "slapd.conf" contains the instructions to dynamically load "back_sql.la", then : - OpenLDAP doesn't start at boot - "#service slapd start" doesn't work - "#/etc/init.d slapd start" still works

Ben

Note : I tried to use insserv instead of update-rc.d, same result