Starting ldap failed with exit code 256

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> While Upgrading Zimbra Collaboration Suit <b>ZCS, </b>Some time we got following error:-<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Starting ldap...failed with exit code: 256. </b></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Error log :- </b><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Restoring existing configuration file from /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/localconfig.xml...done</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.04252014-145633.log</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Upgrading from 8.X.X to 8.X.X</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Stopping zimbra services...done.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Starting mysql...done.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">This appears to be 8.X.X</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Checking ldap status...not running.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Running zmldapapplyldif...done.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Checking ldap status...not running.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Starting ldap...failed with exit code: 256.</span></i><br /> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">UPGRADE FAILED - exiting.</span></i><br /> <br /> <b>Resolution </b>:-<br /> Execute below command to fix permission issue.<br /> <span style="color: blue;">[ root@amitmaheshwari.in ] # /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms -verbose -extended</span><br /> <span style="color: blue;"><br /></span> <b>Try to re-run Zimbra setup </b><br /> <span style="color: blue;">[ root@amitmaheshwari.in ] #</span><span style="color: blue;">  </span><span style="color: blue;">/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl</span><br /> <span style="color: blue;"><br /></span> This resolution has resolved " ldap error issue" , I hope it will work for you.<br /> <span style="color: blue;"><br /></span> <span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>

Starting ldap failed with exit code 256

While Upgrading Zimbra Collaboration Suit ZCS, Some time we got following error:- Starting ldap...failed with exit code: 256.  Error l...

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