Thanks for pointing me to the TLS error, I should've spotted that. The certificate pointed to by olcTLSCertificateFile had had its permissions changed so that it was unreadable by slapd; not sure how. I reset the permissions, and now slapd starts normally.
Thank you for your prompt attention, and sorry for the noise. ** Changed in: openldap (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585568 Title: slapd startup fails with "connections_destroy: nothing to destroy" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openldap/+bug/1585568/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs