Re: Slapd database goes corrupt repeatedly after recovery

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Kaspar Fischer <kaspar.fischer@baselgovernance.org> writes:

> Dear list,
>
> We are using an OpenLDAP/slapd server to manage the user accounts of
> our Samba server and have recently run into the problem that users
> cannot connect to Samba drives anymore after some time. Samba
> complains that it cannot connect to the LDAP server (see below for
> error message in Samba log) and the slapd log shows
[...]

>   Mar 25 11:38:15 office-server slapd[3433]: bdb(dc=foo,dc=org): file
> id2entry.bdb has LSN 1/382892, past end of log at 1/283666
[...]
> Strangely, restarting slapd helps and users can use Samba again for a
> limited and arbitrary period of time until the problem pops up
> again. I tried fixing the database using
>
>   db4.7_recover -v -h /var/lib/ldap
>
> but again, the problem pops up again later.
[...]

For some unknown reason the last transaction logfile has been removed,
therefor the database connot be recovered. Unfortunately you have to
rebuild the database

-Dieter

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