Re: Search fails after adding index

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Laurens Blankers wrote:
> 
> I am trying to index searching on uid. However as soon as I add the
> following index to slapd.conf:
> 
> index           uid pres,eq,sub
> 
> stop slapd, run 'su openldap -c slapindex' and start slapd again,
> searching for any uid returns 0 results.
> 
> I am using the following search command:
> 
> ldapsearch -x "(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=laurens))"
> 
> After removing the index line from slapd.conf and restarting slapd the
> search returns the desired result again. I set the loglevel to 480, but
> the log does not contain any entries which indicate a problem.
> 
> Why does adding indexes result in the search failing?

I note that you executed slapindex but maybe with wrong parameters or
something's wrong with ownership/permissions?

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/136.html

Ciao, Michael.