Re: syncrepl cause crash on consumers?

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

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Aaron Richton wrote:

> > ldap2 kernel: pid 18816 (slapd), uid 389: exited on signal 6
> Signal 6 is SIGABRT, no? I'd guess that slapd is assert()ing something.
> There should be something about that in the logs or stderr or such. You
> also should be able to coerce a core dump out of such a situation.
> I note that the "uid 389" many times leads to a file permission error 
> creating the core file -- check your OS configuration carefully that 
> it's a place writable to the dying slapd.

Good point, I'll bet that was it and it couldn't write the core file 
because of permissions.  I didn't even think of that.

I sure wish I new what was causing it so I could reproduce it instead of 
waiting a month for it to happen again.

Thanks for the tip.