Re: Problems using db4-utils on backend database files

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 11:54:54 tamarin p wrote:

> tamarin# db_stat -m
> db_stat: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> db_stat: DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version
> mismatch
>
> tamarin# db_recover
> db_recover: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> db_recover: Unacceptable log file log.0000000001: unsupported log version
> 11 db_recover: Invalid log file: log.0000000001: Invalid argument
> db_recover: PANIC: Invalid argument
> db_recover: PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
> db_recover: DB_ENV->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database
> recovery

[...]

> As far as program  versions go, I'm not very proficient with *NIX, so I've
> used yum installs for everything rather than attempt to compile things
> myself. IHere are the  versions:
> - db4-utils-4.3.29-9.fc6 (db_stat etc)
> - openldap-servers-2.3.27-8
> - openldap-2.3.27-8
>
> I'm obviously going wrong somewhere, but where?

$ rpm -ql openldap-servers|grep db_

You should see a slapd_db_recover, slapd_db_stat etc., the utils for the 
internal copy of db-4.3 shipped in the RHEL5 packages of OpenLDAP.

However, running OpenLDAP on db4.3 is not recommended ...

There are some alternative packages available:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/

Regards,
Buchan