[389-users] dirsrv won't start

[Doug Tucker]

So I've gone from bad to worse.  Googling and googling and no response 
on my auth issue from the list yesterday, I coudn't stand doing 
nothing.  The only thing I saw that made me curious was some thread 
where a guy could not auth and he changed the password hash to something 
else and it worked.  I looked at our current password hash in openldap 
and it was ssha.  For the life of me I could not find how to see what 
the current one was in 389.  The only thing I could find in the docs was 
how to set a password policy which allowed you to set the hash.  So I 
did so according to the documentation on the Users cn.  The only thing I 
did was turn it on, and make sure password hash was set to ssha. I left 
the rest default which was no expiration, etc.  I saved, and tried to 
restart according to the docs, it woudn't restart.  I shut down with the 
init script instead, and tried to start, and now I get this:

[root at lyleauth1 schema]# /etc/init.d/dirsrv start
Starting dirsrv:
     lyleauth1...[09/Jan/2013:16:23:05 -0600] dse_read_one_file - The 
entry cn=schema in file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-lyleauth1/schema/99user.ldif 
(lineno: 1) is invalid, error code 21 (Invalid syntax) - attribute type 
olcOverlay: Missing parent attribute syntax OID
[09/Jan/2013:16:23:05 -0600] dse - Please edit the file to correct the 
reported problems and then restart the server.
                                                            [FAILED]
   *** Warning: 1 instance(s) failed to start

Looking at the time stamp on that file, it is: Dec 20 16:36 99user.ldif 
.  So what I did yesterday did not touch it.  Anyone have any idea how 
to fix this?

-- 
Sincerely,

Doug Tucker