Re: pls help: "Operations error" from ldapdelete (ITS#29)

[st@hp735c.csc.cuhk.edu.hk]

Kurt,

> I believe you are getting an "Operations Error" as a result of
> a corrupt backend database.  From the logs you have provided,
> it appears that the id of the entry being deleted does not exist
> in the its parent's list of children ids.

Shall I refer to the source code in order to interpret the debug trace ?
I'll dig into it if necessary.

> You might try poking about in the database with ldbmtest.
> However, I recommend you rebuild it using ldbmcat/ldif2ldbm.

I rebuilt the database but the problem is still not solved although 
add/modify work properly.  I tried to test with ldbmtest but there is no
man page for it.  Here comes my config file, for your information :

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include		/usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf
#include		/usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf
include		/usr/local/openldap/etc/cu.slapd.oc.conf
schemacheck	off
#referral	ldap://ldap.itd.umich.edu
#referral	ldap://ldap1.csc.cuhk.edu.hk

#######################################################################
# ldbm database definitions
#######################################################################

database	ldbm
suffix		"dc=cuhk, dc=edu, dc=hk"
directory	/usr/local/openldap/var/db
rootdn		"cn=root, dc=cuhk, dc=edu, dc=hk"
rootpw		???

sizelimit       25000

access          to dn=".*,dc=cuhk,dc=edu,dc=hk" 
		by dn="uid=1001,dc=cuhk,dc=edu,dc=hk" read 
		by dn="uid=1002,dc=cuhk,dc=edu,dc=hk" read 
		by self write 
		by * none 

# No. of entries in cache
cachesize	5000
# DB cache size in bytes 
# ~50Mb for index creation
#dbcachesize	50000000
# ~5Mb for production run
dbcachesize	5000000

loglevel	256
#loglevel	65535

index           cn,sn,uid       pres,eq,approx,sub
index		mail,maildrop	pres,eq,approx,sub
index           universityID,computingID	pres,eq,approx,sub
index           default         none

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Would you please help?  Thanks !

ST