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August 18, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: How to fix the 'LDAP search failed' error received when accessing Contacts in extension

  • August 18, 2025
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Description This article describes how to fix the 'LDAP search failed' error received when accessing Contacts in FortiFone.
Scope FortiVoice v7.2.2.
Solution

The issue is related to a process on the FortiVoice. perform the following steps to obtain a core dump:

  • turn on core dump with: 'diagnose debug coredump enable ldapbed'.
  • Turn on ldapbed trace log: 'diagnose debug app ldapbed trace-log enable'.
  • Turn on database log: 'diagnose debug database 1'.
  • Run the command below to get the ldapbed PID: 'diagnose system top'.

 

After the information is collected, the last step is to reload ldapbed with coredump:

 

diagnose debug process signal 11 <PID> <----- Obtained from previous system top command.

 

Turn off debugging with the following commands:

 

diagnose debug app ldapbed trace-log disable3

diagnose debug database 0

 

Restarting the process should allow the contacts to be viewed as expected.
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