Re: DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On September 26, 2008 10:23:28 PM +0300 "Stelios A." 
<stelios.a@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have 2 users with identical Full Name and their ldif change on mail,
> uid, username and home directory in order to avoid ldap constraints.
> However, even though I have no other constraints apart from
> unique_attributes uid mail uidNumber homeDirectory I'm getting the
> following error and cannot add the 2nd user.
>
> root@masterldap:~# slapadd -l debug.ldif -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
> => hdb_tool_entry_put: id2entry_add failed: DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair
> already exists (-30996)
> => hdb_tool_entry_put: txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already
> exists (-30996)
> slapadd: could not add entry dn="cn=Full
> Name,ou=Users,dc=mydomain,dc=com" (line=1): txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST:
> Key/data pair already exists (-30996)
> root@masterldap:~#
>
> Any ideas how I can see which attribute is causing the problem?

The problem attribute is "cn".  Since you are using cn (and not uid, which 
I would advise) as the RDN value, they must be different.  This is why 
using cn for an RDN value is a bad idea.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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