Re: problems with existing entries disappearing

[Antonio Broughton <antonio@flerwin.net>]

Karsten Künne wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:17, Antonio Broughton wrote:
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>> I have a few questions:
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> Looks like a corrupt index. I had that a couple times in the past.
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>> 1) Why would this entry be removed?
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> It's not removed, just missing from the index.
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>> 2) Why when I try and add the entry, it says that it exists?
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> Because it's still there in the DB.
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>> 3) Is there a way to fix it?
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> Reindex you DB. Stop slapd, remove all the indexes and run slapindex. Or 
> slapcat/slapadd you DB (that's what I used to do).
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I ran slapindex, but... it still occurs
>> 4) Am I doing something wrong?
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> You're using an outdated version, upgrade to 2.3.28 and if by chance you're 
> using ldbm as your backend, switch to bdb or hdb! Most of these cases I 
> remember I had with ldbm, I can't remember any case with bdb (but that 
> doesn't mean it can't happen with bdb).
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>
> Karsten.
>   
I am using BDB as the backend...

Also, when I run slapcat, it also results in there being no data for the
entry!

Also, this is not a permissions issue, as using the admin user... I am
still unable to locate "mytestentry"


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Antonio Broughton