For me it was a problem with ownership of directories in /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-<name>/ tree. logs, locks and config ownership was changed by upgrade process to root. So the ns-slpad process was unable to start. Also the file /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-<name>/config/dse.ldif.startOK was there in the way, being unable to deleted, - lack of permissions. -- Sergey. Mike Jackson wrote: > Start Slapd Starting Slapd server reconfiguration. > Fatal Slapd ERROR: Could not find Directory Server Configuration > URL ldap://laptop.netauth.com:389/o=NetscapeRoot user id admin DN > cn=laptop.netauth.com, ou=netauth.com, o=NetscapeRoot (153:Unknown error) > Configuring Administration Server... > InstallInfo: Apache Directory "ApacheDir" is missing. > /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-netauth/config/dse.ldif: SSL on ... > Restarting Directory Server: /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-netauth/start-slapd > Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems >