Very Strange Problem Openfire + Samba in Same Server - Openfire aborts at doing smbcontrol smbd reload-config

I have a CentOs 5.2 with openldap, Openfire 3.6.4 and Samba 3.2.6 installed on it.

Openfire is integrated with the openldap using posixaccounts.

Samba is integrated the same way.

When i have modified smb.conf file and do a smbcontrol smbd reload-config to take the new config, the openfire server process just disappears.

I have to manually start the server again and then all is normal.

Openfire is integrated directly with ldap and so is samba.

Any clues what is going on?

Where can i look for a log file of openfire?

Thanks,

Andrew.