Dereferencing alias causes slapd to crash silently

[David Pisoni <dpisoni@lrn.com>]

Hello,

I have a problem, I think it might be a bug --
I created an alias in my DIT pointing to a valid entry in another part 
of the DIT.  Now if I do a search which touches this alias (assuming 
alias dereferencing is on), the server will silently stop. (I tried 
various different loglevel settings, there is nothing to indicate a 
failure -- the slapd process just dies.)  If I do a search without 
dereferencing, the alias entry is returned as expected.  This behavior 
was reproduced with different clients (including the CLUI ldapsearch.)

I am running OpenLDAP 2.1.6 on RedHat Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18)
I am using the 'ldbm' backend (since bdb doesn't support aliases.)
I tested both --with-ldbm-api=berkeley and --with-ldbm-api=gdbm -- 
problem occurs regardless.
Using Berkeley, I tested both 4.0.14 and 4.1.24 -- problem occurs 
regardless.
I built it with gcc 3.0.4 and 2.96 -- same result (although Berkeley's 
configure complained about gcc2.96.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
David Pisoni
Sr. Software Engineer,
LRN, The Legal Knowledge Company
dpisoni@lrn.com
310-209-5364