Re: (ITS#5783) Possible DB corruption

[ando@sys-net.it]

Maykel Moya wrote:
> El mar, 04-11-2008 a las 20:20 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati escribió:
> 
>> This does not look like a db corruption.  It looks like you restarted 
>> slapd with back-config in a compromised state, since it is now missing 
>> the definition of "dc", which is in core.schema.  You don't specify how 
>> you edited cn=config; did you manually edited the corresponding ldif 
>> files?  You're supposed to modify them only via operations using the 
>> LDAP protocol while the server is running.
> 
> Well, maybe a better title would be: possible cn=config backend
> corruption, to make a diference with classic DB usage to refer to
> HDB/BDB backends.
> 
> I added olcTLS* fields via normal ldap operations, not by manually
> editing text files inside /etc/ldap/slapd.d. Specifically I used a
> frontend called luma, which is built around python-ldap.

OK.  Is the issue reproducible?  Can you provide a simple initial 
slapd.conf and an LDIF containing the modifications that triggered the 
issue, along with a clear sequence of steps required to reproduce it?

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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