openldap does not start properly

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2005 12:00 schrieb Dr. Hansjoerg Maurer:
> I am trying kolab-2.0.1 on centos-4.

[ you probably mean the Kolab Server...
one less known fact is: 
Most of the groupware work of "Kolab' happens in the client! ]

> The build works fine,
> but bootstrapping brings the following error:
> prepare LDAP database...
> temporarily starting slapd
> Waiting for OpenLDAP to start
> could not connect ldap server ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ at
> /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab_bootstrap line 415.
>
>
> I have found some notes about wrong entries in /etc/hosts ... and about
> reinstaling db rpm's
> but nothing helped.
>
> ldap is running
> tcp        0      0 localhost.localdomain:ldap
> *:*                         LISTEN      7346/slapd
> root      7346  0.0  0.4 10216 3296 ?        Ssl  10:30   0:00
> /kolab/libexec/openldap/slapd -h ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ -f
> /kolab/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
>
> but I am unable to connect to localhost 389
> telnet localhost 389
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> selinux is disabled
> no portfilter running
>
> Does anyone has an idea how to solve that problem?

My standard approach is:
a) Double check that
    a.1 no other ldap service is running
    a.2 no firewall is in place
b) Check the openldap log.
c) Run slapd manually with the -d switch to get better error output.
   See /kolab/bin/openpkg man slapd.conf for the loglevels.