Re: (ITS#5354) slapd repeatedly hangs and stops reponding

[hyc@symas.com]

ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
>> rra@stanford.edu writes:
>>> Specifically, the workaround is to compile the code with the upstream
>>> libtool instead of with Debian's libtool, since upstream libtool
>>> imports all module symbols into the global namespace.  Debian's
>>> libtool has been modified to not do this because it causes all sorts
>>> of other problems in the general case, but not doing this breaks the
>>> meta backend because it wants to reference symbols from the bdb
>>> backend.
>> s/bdb/ldap/.  Sounds like a fix would be to build back-ldap statically
>> instead of dynamically on Debian if back-meta is built too.
>
> The reason back-meta uses code from back-ldap is that they share a lot
> of features.  Probably, they could be moved into slapd, since they might
> be useful in other (proxy-related) future modules?  That would be a lot
> of reworking, though.

For now we should move those calls into a bi_extra table, the same way 
back-monitor was handled. But this is stuff for ITS#5355.

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