Re: alock File Keeps LDAP (slapd) from Starting Up

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:15 PM +0400 Dmitriy Kirhlarov 
<dkirhlarov@oilspace.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:26:03AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > alock is an autorecovery mechanism introduced in the OpenLDAP 2.3
> > release to assist  with autorecovery.  Given more information on the
> > error messages coming from alock  would be useful, since it is supposed
> > to help you recover from hard reboots  gracefully.
>
> BTW, I'm using openldap 2.3.21 on freebsd and linux boxes. I use it
> with bdb43. On all machines I have easy reproduceble problem -- if
> slapd killing hardly he can't start. Eat all cpu, don't answer to
> clients and can be killed only with -9 signal.
> After running db_recover slapd start and work fine.
> I look in ChangeLog. This issue not fixed in 2.3.2[23], or I'm wrong?

BDB 4.3 is a known problem release.  The suggested BDB release is 
4.2.52+patches, and possible BDB 4.4.20+patches.  But not BDB 4.3.anything.


--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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