Re: Berkeley DB 4.2; need help to retrieve LDAP data

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Stephan Schwab wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I need help to retrieve LDAP data out of a corrupt BDB 4.2 database.
>
> slapcat or slapd start and then run into a deadlock. db_dump can 
> retrieve some data, but then only writes "unable to allocate space 
> from buffer cache" in an endless loop.

A lock conflict here implies that a program exited uncleanly and left 
locks lying around in the environment. Use db_recover to clean up the 
environment and the locks will be removed, then you can slapcat without 
any problems.

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