How to manually remove the faulty RHDS instance since 'dsctl' command is not able to remove it

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Environment

  • Red Hat Directory Server 11
  • dsctl

Issue

  • Unable to remove the RHDS instance using the dsctl command from the system.
  • dsctl command does show another instance but it's not showing in the ps output.
[root@rhds02 ~]#  dsctl -l
slapd-master01
slapd-master02

[root@rhds02 ~]#  dsctl slapd-master01 status
No such instance 'slapd-master01'  <----
Unable to access instance information. Are you running as the correct user? (usually dirsrv or root)

[root@rhds02 ~]# ps aux | grep ns-slapd
root     1118592  0.0  0.0  12140  1072 pts/0    S+   17:00   0:00 grep --color=auto ns-slapd
dirsrv   1824817  3.9  3.8 1220180 619308 ?      Ssl  Jul26 121:26 /usr/sbin/ns-slapd -D /etc/dirsrv/slapd-master02 -i /run/dirsrv/slapd-master02.pid

[root@rhds02 ~]# dsctl slapd-master01 stop
No such instance 'slapd-master01'
Unable to access instance information. Are you running as the correct user? (usually dirsrv or root)

Resolution

  1. Confirm the active & faulty RHDS instances on the system:
# ll -d /etc/dirsrv/slapd-*
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root   root    106 Jul 26 13:55 /etc/dirsrv/slapd-master01  <---- This needs to be removed 
drwxrwx---. 3 dirsrv dirsrv 4096 Aug  2 09:38 /etc/dirsrv/slapd-master02
  1. Remove following directory manually:
# rm -rf /etc/dirsrv/slapd-master01/*
  1. Confirm if faulty RHDS instance has been removed from the system:
#  dsctl -l
slapd-master02

Diagnostic Steps

  • Confirm if there is any faulty RHDS instance present on the system using dsctl & ps commands:
[root@rhds02 ~]#  dsctl -l
slapd-master01
slapd-master02

[root@rhds02 ~]#  dsctl slapd-master01 status
No such instance 'slapd-master01'  <----
Unable to access instance information. Are you running as the correct user? (usually dirsrv or root)

[root@rhds02 ~]# ps aux | grep ns-slapd
root     1118592  0.0  0.0  12140  1072 pts/0    S+   17:00   0:00 grep --color=auto ns-slapd
dirsrv   1824817  3.9  3.8 1220180 619308 ?      Ssl  Jul26 121:26 /usr/sbin/ns-slapd -D /etc/dirsrv/slapd-master02 -i /run/dirsrv/slapd-master02.pid

[root@rhds02 ~]# dsctl slapd-master01 stop
No such instance 'slapd-master01'
Unable to access instance information. Are you running as the correct user? (usually dirsrv or root)

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