After the clean re-installation, I tried to do the setup, but, it fails with the same error: [slapd-dirs]: [26/Jun/2007:09:03:00 -0500] - SSL alert: Security Initialization: NSS initialization failed (Netscape Portable Runtime error -8174 - security library: bad database.): path: /opt/fedora-ds/alias/, certdb prefix: slapd-dirs-, keydb prefix: slapd-dirs-. [slapd-dirs]: [26/Jun/2007:09:03:00 -0500] - ERROR: NSS Initialization Failed. error:[26/Jun/2007:09:03:00 -0500] - ERROR: NSS Initialization\nFailed. system_errno:2 Where it hangs. The alias directory has only one entry: [root at dirs fedora-ds]# ls -al alias/ total 268 drwxr-xr-x 2 fedora-ds fedora-ds 4096 Jun 13 12:01 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jun 26 09:03 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 247376 Nov 8 2006 libnssckbi.so It didn't create the other cert and key files under alias directory. Also, the admin-serv/config directory is empty! That NSS Initialization failure (-8174) with "bad database" error prevents the setup from doing anything. Since, this is a fresh installation, I think the bad database error is probably somewhere outside the /opt/fedora-ds tree...! I'm only guessing at this point;-) Any ideas as to where to look for any clues?!!!! SWA