I just experienced what sounds like your problem... My BDB file were corrupted, so to fix the issue I simply deleted everything in the data directory and then ran slapadd to restore and recreate the files. Immediately my LDAP server started working again. I hope this helps you. The only way I saw this was a problems was by running strace on slapd and watching where it hung. --Jeff On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 22:13 -0700, Sean O'Connell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:29 -0400, Thomas E Dukes wrote: > > Hello Sean, > > > > I uncommented rootpw secret > > commented out the sasl reference. Still won't connect. :-( > > > > I have been working on this for a week. Its beating the heck out of me. > > > > Thanks for your help!!!! > > OK. I took the slapd.conf that you had posted earlier, and I was able to > get it to work on a CentOS 4.1 box without too much trouble (clean up a > typo in the rootdn name and a cut and paste issue). I had to comment out > some stuff in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. Something truly odd is going on > there. The fact that ldap is starting but not creating tcp sockets is > quite weird. > > Have you tried rebooting? (I know, I know :) Sometimes system updates > can cause subtle issues from time to time. Maybe something is goofy with > the network on your machine. Have you been starting and stopping the > network service? Can you ping localhost? I have seen some linux boxes > (been a while, though) forget about how to talk to localhost and it > caused all sorts of weird behavior. > > As a shot in the dark, are you running with selinux enabled? It has > caused many a subtle problem in which a configuration that should "just > work" has failed to work. Try running setenforce 0 and then restarting > ldap. I run my machines with selinux=0 on the kernel line in grub.conf > -- Jeffrey D. Means meaje at meanspc.com Owner / CIO for MeansPC http://www.meanspc.com/ Custom Web Development For Your Needs. (970)308-1298 - The stupidity of a stupid person is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent individual has a much broader diffusion, and far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise. - WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org - Fight Internet Censorship! http://www.eff.org = This is not about Napster or DVDs. It's about your Freedom. http://www.anti-dmca.org My Public PGP Key ID is: 0x81F00126 and available via: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x81F00126 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050906/d067d0e0/attachment-0004.sig>