Slapd now starting up slowly

[goterpsgo]

I hope this is the right category; my apologies if this is not the case.

I recently set up Amahi with F12 and I configured it to run as a PDC with Samba and OpenLDAP. It had been running very smoothly until just tonight when I discovered when I tried to restart the slapd service it would just sit there for a few minutes. After it did start I looked in /var/log/messages to see if I could glean some clues; it seems as part of "service slapd start" the system would request information from slapd in order to restart slapd. Seems pretty circular to me... I did not note any type of success message when slapd finally did wake up from suspended animation.

So my $64,000 questions are what is causing this and why is it rearing its head now after running flawlessly for almost 2 months?

Thanks for clueing me in...

- Joe