weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.validateVDEDirectories

weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.validateVDEDirectories

Error/Issue: AdminServer is shutting down with below error in log file

<Sep 9, 2014 1:14:25 AM PDT> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:417)
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:499)
        at weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.validateVDEDirectories(EmbeddedLDAP.java:1104)
        at weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.start(EmbeddedLDAP.java:242)
        at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
<Sep 9, 2014 1:14:25 AM PDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FAILED>
<Sep 9, 2014 1:14:25 AM PDT> <Error> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000383> <A critical service failed. The server will shut itself down>
<Sep 9, 2014 1:14:25 AM PDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN>


Solution:  Move data,cache,tmp under AdminServer directory and start AdminServer.

Or you can move ldap directory under data directory

Bottom line is LDAP was corrupted need to recreate.