LDAP failing to start on OS X Leopard

[piers]

Hi Folks,

We have a Zimbra server which has been running for months without any glitches. Recently the server had to be shut-down (cleanly) and physically moved to a different part of the building.

The IP and hostname have not changed. No changes to the server or to the DNS entries. The server resolves correctly to it's FQDN oth locally and from the internet.

When the server was restarted Zimbra refuses to start with this message in the terminal;

	Starting ldap...Done.
Failed.
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (21866) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25640) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25646) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25650) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25655) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25659) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 56: kill: (25664) - No such process
Failed to start slapd.  Attempting debug start to determine error.

I get the same message if I try and start LDAP manually.

I have tried upgrading to latest version (Release 6.0.3_GA_1915.MACOSXx86_10.5) but that hasn't worked.

Please help! We rely on Zimbra for our CalDAV

[piers]

Hi, Sorry to bump this messages but I'm still very stuck.

Can anyone suggest any checklists or test I can run to help get to the bottom of this?

[piers]

The last line states "Attempting debug start to determine error."

Can anyone tell me where I can find the debug information?

[rs232c]

I had a similar experience when a restart after a clean shutdown failed because of corruption of the ldap database. I restored my ldap database from the lastet backup and everything worked.

Here is my recovery script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Recover Zimbra LDAP data
#
# root has to run the script
#
if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
    then
    echo "You need to be root to do this!"
    exit 1
fi
su - zimbra
zmcontrol stop
rm -r /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb.old
mv opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb.old
mkdir -p /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb/db /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb/logs
cp /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb.old/db/DB_CONFIG /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/hdb/db
cp ~/backup/sessions/`ls -t ~/backup/sessions | head -n 1`/ldap/ldap.bak /tmp/ldap.bak
/opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slapadd -q -b "" -F /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/config -cv -l /tmp/ldap.bak 
ldap start
zmcontrol start