vmdird.service failed

[SebastianEr]

My vCenter suddenly failes to start with "No Healthy upstream" in the Client.

After restarting the services i get "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Stderr: Job for vmdird.service failed because the control process exited with error code.\nSee \"systemctl status vmdird.service\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.\n"

And by checking "journalctl -xe" it gives the following.

_VmDirOpenDbEnv: mdb_env_open failed on database /storage/db/vmware-vmdir/snapshot, MDB error -30793
MDBInitializeDB failed with error code: -30793, error string: MDB_INVALID: File is not an MDB file
VmDirInitBackend failed (-30793)
Service died: vmdir (restarted 2 times in 0 seconds)

I have no ide what to do from this point.

[Shen88]

@SebastianEr, VMware Directory Service (vmdir) is a Multi-master LDAP database i.e. associated with the domain you specify during installation and it is also used for certificate management.

Please check /var/log/vmware/vmdird/vmdird-syslog.log to see what is preventing from it to start?

Also, to check the state of vmdir, run the following command: echo 6 | /usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcadmintool

If you see either of these 3 states (Null, Read-Only or Standalone) apart from 'Normal', I would suggest to raise an case with VMware Global Support (GSS) as this might require some expertise to fix.

[SebastianEr]

What i could found in "/var/log/vmware/vmdird/vmdird-syslog.log" is only

_VmDirOpenDbEnv: mdb_env_open failed on database /storage/db/vmware-vmdir/snapshot, MDB error -30793
MDBInitializeDB failed with error code: -30793, error string: MDB_INVALID: File is not an MDB file
VmDirInitBackend failed (-30793)

"echo 6 | /usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcadmintool" returned  "GetVmDirState failed: VmDirGetState() failed. error(9127)"

[SebastianEr · Accepted solution]

Hmm, i deleted the data.mdb in /storage/db/vmware-vmdir/snapshot, resynced the time, reconnected to the Active Directory from CLI and it seems that it's working now.