LinuxQuestions.org - openldap sasl_server

In fact this is not a question ;
This is a solution for an sutitation I met and digged into to solve for 2 days:
here is error and solution details:

I had 1 master; 2 slave openldap replications;
1 master and 1 slave were ok; but other slave I will call it "nodeFail".

Code:

[root@nodeFail ldap]# slaptest  -d 1 -v

slaptest init: initiated tool.

sasl_server_init failed

slaptest: slap_init failed!

I had re-installed all openldap and cyrus-sasl rpms;

compat-openldap-2.1.30-7.4E.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-ntlm-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-sasl-sql-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386.rpm
nss_ldap-226-24.el4_6.i386.rpm
openldap-2.2.13-7.4E.i386.rpm
openldap-devel-2.2.13-7.4E.i386.rpm
openldap-servers-2.2.13-7.4E.i386.rpm
python-ldap-2.0.1-2.i386.rpm

but one file is not owned by any of rpms; and it causes to openldap related security operations to fail in init stage of sasl.

[root@nodeFail rpms]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf
file /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf is not owned by any package

so removing it will solve your problem;
mv /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf.none

[root@nodeFail rpms]# slaptest
config file testing succeeded

I don't expect any of you to face this struggling error;
And wish to find this note if you face it :)

Have a nice day ;
Tamer