problems starting ldap server

Hi,

I already hat a ldap server running and everything was working fine. Then I tried modified an entry (using phpLDAPAdmin) which also worked fine before but this time it just went on working for ages so I just quit it using the "back" button.

Now nothing works anymore - I got the message:

"Can't contact LDAP server
error code: 0x51(LDAP_SERVER_DOWN)
description: The LDAP server is down."

Using "ldapadd -x" the message I receive is:

"ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81)"

With "ps aux | grep slapd" I see that one process is running, however with /etc/init.d/ldap status I only get:
"Checking for service ldap: "

I searched so many sites now and I found that a lot of people had the same problem but the solutions don't work for me or are just to complicated.

So if somebody knows what may be the problem, please help me! ...in a beginner-friendly way ;-)

So long,

Uma

can you restart the process? if you can't figure it out try rebooting the machine if you can

Yes, I tried both but it didn't help. I read in some sources to check the netstat output. I found out that neither slapd nor the port number 389 appear anywhere in the list. I just don't know what to do with this information...

Any idea?

Regards,

Uma

if nothing appears in the list them ldap isn't running at all, that's the problem, try starting it

I already tried that a couple of times:
/etc/init.d/ldap start -> done
/etc/init.d/ldap status -> running

Still no entry in the netstat list and the same error as before (Can't contact ldap server).

Do you (or anybody else) know other (maybe port related) issues that might cause that behaviour?
Btw, telnet localhost 389 also doesn't work.

Hi,

fixed the problem :-) Obviously some of my data was corrupted which would also explain why ldap stopped working just like that while I was editing data via a web interface. I moved all the data from /var/lib/ldap to /var/lib/ldapold and created a new empty /var/lib/ldap directory. Working now!

Thank you Viper_SB for your replies to my postings!

Cheers!

Uma

glad it worked out