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I am facing issue with our new LDAP servers as they go down one by one alternatively. When checked for the services it says:

"slapd dead but pid file exists openldap"

but show no service running ps -ea | grep slapd. When the service is restarted, LDAP starts with message

"bdb_db_open: database "dc=root": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.slapd starting" a

nd works perfectly until the issue comes again.

There is nothing in the ldap logs much to investigate as each time it overwrites the logs but i got below error once it had stopped.

slapd[30190]: daemon: bind(7) failed errno=13 (Permission denied)
slapd[30190]: slapd stopped.

I checked the access to ldap user on certificates folder and it has read\write access on it. Unlike others, my LDAP starts with service slapd start on RHEL. Please help,

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The service was stopped and does not delete the file pid.
Check the file slapd.conf and look for the pidfile variable:

pidfile /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid

Delete it. 

rm -f /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
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  • Hi Jose, Thank you for your response. I checked and found the ldap user was not having read permissions on the server certificates but instead it was root. I changed the Ownership of the certificate to ldap and so far the LDAP didnt went down. not sure if the issue is resolved but i'll keep everyone posted. – sandy Mar 22 '16 at 11:06

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