Re: (ITS#5927) assertion error when using pcache

[mhardin@symas.com]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> mhardin@symas.com wrote:
>> Full_Name: Matthew Hardin
>> Version: 2.4.13
>> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 i686
>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> Submission from: (NULL) (74.38.114.185)
>> Hi All,
>> We have an LDAP server that is proxying for Active Directory.  
>> Periodically slapd
>> throws an assertion:
>> slapd: [....]/ldap24/servers/slapd/schema_init.c:524:  
>> octetStringIndexer:
>> Assertion `i > 0' failed.
>> /etc/init.d/solserver: line 192:  6620 Aborted                  
>> (core dumped)
>> "$EXEC_DIR/$PROC" $ARGS -h "$HOST_LIST" $EXTRA_SLAPD_ARGS
>> Howard Chu's examination of the core file showed that the remote AD  
>> server
>> returned a member attribute with no values. This is only legal in  
>> LDAP when a
>> client sets the attrsonly flag in its search request, and that flag  
>> was not set
>> here.
>> The indexer rightly asserts because pcache handed it an attribute  
>> with nothing
>> to index.
>> I'm not sure what the correct thing to do might be here, but it  
>> should not take
>> down the slapd.
>
> The entry should not be cached, IMHO.

Fair enough, I think.

-Matt

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