Re: Segfault in slapd 2.4.8 - syncrepl and glue (ITS#5430)

[ghenry@suretecsystems.com]

<quote who="hyc@symas.com">
> Duncan Gibb wrote:
>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>> HYC>  syncrepl.c is now updated in HEAD to allow this replication to
>> occur.
>>
>> HYC>  Using your test, I don't see any crash.
>>
>> Thank you.  We'll re-test with current HEAD and post the outcome.
>
> I modified your test case to make it easier to run. The new test is in
> ftp.openldap.org:incoming/its5430.tgz.1

Above tests pass here with latest HEAD (repository revision: 1.390  
/repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/syncrepl.c,v

>
> You simply extract it inside the tests/ subdirectory of the build tree.
> After
> you have built the OpenLDAP source and run "make test" you can cd into the
> its5430 directory and run the test.sh from there.
>
> There were also some errors in your config file templates, which are
> corrected
> in the above archive.
>
> Most notably, in template 1, you explicitly configured syncprov on top of
> glue
> instead of taking the default behavior of syncprov under glue. As
> documented
> in slapd.conf(5), you should only do that when you want a single syncprov
> overlay to be master of the entire tree. In this case, you clearly want
> syncprov to only master one portion of the tree, with the subordinate
> being
> taken care of by its own syncprov overlay. With your incorrect
> configuration,
> server3 would receive redundant updates because the subordinate branch
> would
> be propagated twice.


server3 also doesn't need syncprov module loaded, as it's a pure consumer.

Thanks,

Gavin.