[Samba] samba4 + openldap: provisioning isnt working

[Collen Blijenberg]

try a 'ps -A | grep slap' to see if your ldap server is up and running...

rektide wrote:
> Wiki seems to be out of date here.  The wiki reference's [1] [2] a "setup/provision-backend"
> script, as well as a "setup/provision" script, yet current git only has a setup/provision
> executable.  Some #samba and #openldap IRC advice was that provision-backend wasnt needed
> anymore, but based off the errors i'm seeing, there's definitely _something_ missing, I just
> dont know if that something ( /usr/local/samba4/private/ldap/slapd.d/ files ) ought to be
> provided by the missing setup/provision-backend.
>
> [1] http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/LDAP_Backend/OpenLDAP
> [2] http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Ubuntu_Server_9.04
>
>
> Following IRC advice, I attempted to just use the setup/provision script.  It didnt work.  I
> added a "[running]" print to provisionbackend.py, to see what it was running, so I could
> attempt to run slapd as it was running it, with debugging enabled.  Heres the result:
>
> rektide at deneb:~/archives/samba/source4$ setup/provision --realm=ELDERGODS.COM
> --ldap-backend-type=openldap --server-role=dc --domain=ELDERGODS
> --slapd-path='/usr/sbin/slapd'
> [running] '/usr/sbin/slapd' '-F/usr/local/samba4/private/ldap/slapd.d' '-h'
> 'ldapi://%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fsamba4%2Fprivate%2Fldap%2Fldapi'
> Failed to bind - LDAP client internal error: NT_STATUS_UNEXPECTED_NETWORK_ERROR
> Failed to connect to 'ldapi://%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fsamba4%2Fprivate%2Fldap%2Fldapi'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup/provision", line 213, in <module>
>     nosync=opts.nosync,ldap_dryrun_mode=opts.ldap_dryrun_mode)
>   File "bin/python/samba/provision.py", line 1257, in provision
>     provision_backend.start()
>   File "bin/python/samba/provisionbackend.py", line 252, in start
>     raise ProvisioningError("slapd died before we could make a connection to it")
>   
-- snip
> connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.
>
>
> The /usr/local/samba4/private/ldap/slapd.d/ directory is completely empty.  I'm not sure
> what is supposed to populate this, but as can be seen from the above debug logs, the slapd
> kicked off by setup/provision is definitely expecting there to be contents.  This could very
> well be a result of the missing-in-action setup/provision-backend script.
>
> I'll be happy to do some wiki updating if I can get this issue resolved: the OpenLDAP wiki
> entry's last major work was the Ides of June 2008.
>
> Regards,
> rektide
>