AW: slapcat hangs without error message

[<Voigtlaender@hansenet.com>]

It seems you are right. I did try db_recover, after that slapcat runs, but the data is not complete. Furthermore my slapd doesn't start anymore after the recover. Is there anything else I could try to get my data ?

Marcella

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Aaron Richton [mailto:richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007 14:34
> An: Voigtländer, Marcella HTK
> Cc: openldap-software@openldap.org
> Betreff: Re: slapcat hangs without error message
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
>