F11, OpenLDAP: can append to files, but not write, acl not a mount option

I've installed a new F11 server, w/OpenLDAP. Users access an lvm/ext4 volume via netatalk & samba. Selinux is permissive. Some users were getting "sharing violation" or "disk full" for afp and smb respectively on some existing files, though 2.2TB are free and new files were fine. I found tha

f9 fedora-ds -- setup-ds.pl hangs with "Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems"

/var/log/dirsvr/slapd-hostname/errors just shows [01/Sep/2008:15:59:50 -0400] - li_import_cache_autosize: 50, import_pages: 51200, pagesize: 4096 [01/Sep/2008:15:59:50 -0400] - WARNING: Import is running with nsslapd-db-private-import-mem on; No other process is allowed to access the database