Re: Backend meta with a Netscape DS bug ?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:32 +0200, Florent Solt wrote:
>   Hello all,
> 
> I recently configure a openldap 2.3.7 with a bdb and a meta backend.
> The meta backend is subordinate to the bdb backend, like this :
> 
>      database meta
>      subordinate
>      rootdn "cn=manager,o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      suffix "ou=machines,ou=paris,o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      uri "ldap://10.1.1.3/ou=machines,ou=paris,o=dhcp,c=fr";
>      acl-authcDN "cn=dhcpmanager,ou=paris,o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      acl-passwd "secret"
>      pseudorootdn "cn=dhcpmanager,ou=paris,o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      pseudorootpw "secret"
> 
>      database        bdb
>      suffix          "o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      rootdn          "o=dhcp,c=fr"
>      rootpw          secret
>      directory       /opt/openldap-2.3.7/var/openldap-data
>      index   objectClass     eq
> 
> 
> The remote server is a Netscape directory server 4.12 (quite very old, i know :)
> and when search through the meta backend i have this error :
> 
> slapd: schema_init.c:2089: IA5StringNormalize: Assertion
> `!((val)->bv_len == 0)' failed.
> 
> Do you know why and perhaps, do you know how to solve it ?
> 
> PS: I tried this crappy patch in schema_init.c but it do not solve my problem :
> 
> +   if BER_BVISEMPTY( val ) {
> +      int size = 5;
> +      val->bv_val = malloc(size);
> +      val->bv_val = strncpy(val->bv_val, "empty", size);
> +      val->bv_len = size;
> +   }
> -   assert( !BER_BVISEMPTY( val ) );

Please use the -software mailing list to discuss software usage issues;
use the ITS to report bugs.

I think your problem has been fixed with ITS#4028.  Please try code
tagged OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_3 in OpenLDAP's cvs.

p.



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