Problem Description: Server not coming up after restart. (You will find error in log like: “Could not acquire lock on ldap … already in use …”)
Possible causes: Server did not shutdown properly though in console you will see the status as SHUTDOWN / UNKNOWN
Solution:

Logon to UNIX box.
Switch user to the user owning the domain
Run “/usr/ucb/ps [...]

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