LDAP Schema: Failed loading - help please

This used to work until the server restarted with fault recovery last week. Now, any attempt to load LDAP gives this:

25/02/2003 10:21:48 LDAP Server: Starting…

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Server: Serving directory names.nsf in the notmyrealdomain.com Internet domain

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Schema: Started loading…

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Schema: Failed loading

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Server: Initialization failure: LDAP Schema: Failed loading

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Server: Waiting for all tasks to complete

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Server: All tasks have completed

25/02/2003 10:21:49 LDAP Server: Shutdown

Nothing has changed (there is still a valid Internet site document for the LDAP service).

Any ideas?

Subject: LDAP Schema: Failed loading - help please

hm, do you have your domino server on an active directory server ? for my test i had to run Domino6 on a active directory y2k server, and LDAP port was in conflict… try to change LDAP port (default 389 if i remember) in domino…

i also needed to add syncAD and run it for working.

Subject: RE: LDAP Schema: Failed loading - help please

No, not that. No other services trying to run on the same port and, like I said, it was working perfectly well until last Friday…

Subject: RE: LDAP Schema: Failed loading - help please

sorry i have no clue whats happening to you machine…

Subject: Possible reason found

Just had the same problem, and deleted the schema.nsf - no effect. Then I compacted. No effect. Fixup. Nope. By then I was desparate and took a peek into the schema.ntf and - lo and behold! - they looked not at all alike, the outline had gone missing from the NSF. So I did a File - Database - Refresh Design and now everything works again. LDAP loads without a hitch.

Conclusion: somehow the LDAP task can fail (silently - not good IBM, remember the commandment “Thou shall not fail silently”) when creating the schema.nsf. A design update may take care of the problem if everything else fails. Symptoms include the LDAP task just quitting and the schema.nsf not looking quite like the schema.ntf (details may vary).

Subject: Possible reason found

Just had the same problem, and deleted the schema.nsf - no effect. Then I compacted. No effect. Fixup. Nope. By then I was desparate and took a peek into the schema.ntf and - lo and behold! - they looked not at all alike, the outline had gone missing from the NSF. So I did a File - Database - Refresh Design and now everything works again. LDAP loads without a hitch.

Conclusion: somehow the LDAP task can fail (silently - not good, IBM, remember the commandment “Thou shall not fail silently”) when creating the schema.nsf. A design update may take care of the problem if everything else fails. Symptoms include the LDAP task just quitting and the schema.nsf not looking quite like the schema.ntf (details may vary).

Subject: Fixed it

Not sure what the root cause was, but as we had made no changes to the default schema, I just deleted the schema.nsf on all my servers and then issued “load ldap” at the console:

26/02/2003 10:33:36 LDAP Server: Starting…

26/02/2003 10:33:36 LDAP Server: Serving directory names.nsf in the notmyrealdomain.com Internet domain

26/02/2003 10:33:36 LDAP Schema: Started loading…

26/02/2003 10:33:38 LDAP Schema: Finished loading

26/02/2003 10:33:40 LDAP Server: Started

I guess the schema must have got corrupted somehow, but I can’t see how exactly.

Anyhow, hope this helps others…

Subject: RE: Fixed it

I did the same: delete schema.nsf and got the same satisfaction fixed itThanks for your help

Subject: RE: Fixed it

Hey Thanx Just tried it (didn’t care if i lost schema or not) and it worked perfectly!

Again Thanx

Mark

Subject: Fixed it - worked here too!