Re: openldap23 w/ bdb43 entryCSN eq index prob

[Dusty Doris <openldap@mail.doris.cc>]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Howard Chu wrote:

> I haven't seen this problem at all. Of course, I'm using BDB 4.2 now.
>
> Dusty Doris wrote:
> > I am having problems indexing entryCSN.  It appears whenever I shutdown
> > slapd and then restart it, my bdb database is getting corrupt.  I am
> > running freebsd 5.4 with openldap 2.3.4 and bdb 4.3.28.  This happens with
> > both bdb and hdb backends, I haven't tried any others.
> >
> > Here is what happens.
> >
> > First, I turn up slapd and do an import of 4 entries (keeping it small for
> > testing).  Then I shutdown slapd (using the startup script).  When I
> > restart slapd, it shows that slapd is started in the logs, however, the
> > process isn't actually running.  Then when I try to start again I get bdb
> > errors in the logfile.  A db_recover isn't enough to fix the db.
> >
> In OpenLDAP 2.3, the db_recover step is run automatically as needed,
> when slapd starts. You should not be running it manually.
>

I didn't realize that, that's nice.  Must have been what it meant by
attempting recovery in the logs.  Anyway, the problem still occurs
regardless of whether or not I run it manually.