Re: slapcat hangs without error message

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

There's a chance your bdb might be corrupt. Stop slapd, run db_recover, 
and try the slapcat again (with slapd still stopped). Assuming you can get 
a decent slapcat out of that, the next step would be use it to upgrade to 
2.3.33. I believe that 2.2.23 isn't safe to slapcat hot, so you won't be 
able to accomplish your backup goal without the upgrade.

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Voigtlaender@hansenet.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running a slapd 2.2.23 (debian package) with a bdb Backend on a 
> Debian Sarge system. I want to use slapcat for backing up my database, 
> but it does never dump the complete data. After running a while it just 
> stops and is doing nothing anymore. I am a bit nervous right now, is 
> there another way to get a ldif dump, or some way of debugging to find 
> the error ? I did try slapcat -d 256, but that did not show anything 
> unnormal, it just stopped.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marcella