Script to cleanup screwed up OpenLDAP installation. Seems to work after seeing following errors: bdb_db_open: database "dc=yourdomain,dc=local": db_open(/var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb) failed: No such file or directory (2). backend_startup_one (type=bdb, suf

cleanup-openldap.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Appears to fix the following errors when running slaptest:
#  bdb_db_open: database "dc=yourdomain,dc=local": db_open(/var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb) failed: No such file or directory (2).
#  backend_startup_one (type=bdb, suffix="dc=yourdomain,dc=local"): bi_db_open failed! (2)

# Assumes you have customized the following configuration files:
#  - /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
#  - /etc/openldap/ldap.conf

# Default settings are work on Red Hat based distros currently:
SERVICE_NAME=slapd
LDAP_LIB_DIR=/var/lib/ldap
LDAP_RUN_DIR=/var/run/openldap
LDAP_PID_FILE=${LDAP_RUN_DIR}/${SERVICE_NAME}.pid
LDAP_ARG_FILE=${LDAP_RUN_DIR}/${SERVICE_NAME}.args
LDAP_DATA_FILES="__db.001 __db.002 __db.003 __db.004 __db.005 __db.006 alock"
LDAP_USER=ldap
LDAP_GROUP=ldap
SYS_RUN_DIR=/var/run
SYS_PID_FILE=${SYS_RUN_DIR}/${SERVICE_NAME}.pid

# Start of execution flow
sudo service ${SERVICE_NAME} stop
# In case PID and args files aren't cleaned up by init script
if [ -f ${LDAP_PID_FILE} ]; then sudo -u ${LDAP_USER} rm ${LDAP_PID_FILE}; fi
if [ -f ${LDAP_ARG_FILE} ]; then sudo -u ${LDAP_USER} rm ${LDAP_ARG_FILE}; fi
if [ -f ${SYS_PID_FILE} ]; then sudo -u ${LDAP_USER} rm ${SYS_PID_FILE}; fi

# Remove screwed up BDB files from OpenLDAP data directory
for f in ${LDAP_DATA_FILES}; {
  path=${LDAP_LIB_DIR}/${f};
  [ -f ${path} ]; sudo -u ${LDAP_USER} rm ${path};
}

# Make sure the DB_CONFIG file and any log files remaining have the correct ownership
sudo chown -R ${LDAP_USER}:${LDAP_GROUP} ${LDAP_LIB_DIR}

sudo service ${SERVICE_NAME} start

Thanks man.. it saved my almost half day... :)

Thanks so much!

You are the man!! You saved me.

Thanks for the script it allowed me to stop banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my OpenLDAP proxy kept failing the 'slaptest ' command. One thing I did need to change is for some reason 'ldap' for my user and group did not work. I set LDAP_USER & LDAP_GROUP to 'openldap' in your script. May be caused by an update to the OpenLDAP installer.

Few more keywords for context are permissions issues and 'bi_db_open failed'.