syncrepl and "no equality matching rule"

[Alain ZAMBONI <Alain.Zamboni@unistra.fr>]

Hello,

I run an LDAP directory on 3 servers : one master, and two slaves,
synchronised with syncrepl. The 3 servers are running FreeBSD 7.0 and
openLDAP 2.4.13.

I encountered yesterday an issue with syncrepl that should have been 
solved with openLDAP 2.4.13

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200812/msg00040.html

The synchronisation was blocking on the deletion of a
facsimileTelephoneNumber.

When the problem occured, the master entry was (only showing the
facsimileTelephoneNumber attribute) :
  dn: uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire
  facsimileTelephoneNumber: 0388613347

And the slave entry was :
  dn: uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire
  facsimileTelephoneNumber: 0388612908
  facsimileTelephoneNumber: 0388613347

The application doing the modification on the master is always using a 
"replace" operation, to avoid the "no equality matching rule" problem.
It seems that syncrepl tries to synchronise the slave by generating the
forbidden operation of deleting a precise facsimileTelephoneNumber.

Is this problem known ? the release between 2.4.13 and 2.4.16 don't 
mentionned something about it.

I managed to unlock the situation by completely deleting the 
"facsimileTelephoneNumber" on the master, then adding it again.

The big problem of this little issue is that it is blocking all the 
synchronisation process between master and slaves ...

By the way, is there a way to check the good state of the 
synchronisation with syncrepl (besides parsing the sync logs or doing 
recurring diff between the servers) ?
I must admit that I miss slurpd's .rej files.

Just in case, here are the log of one of the slaves :

syncrepl_entry: rid=101 be_search (0)
syncrepl_entry: rid=101 uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire
bdb_modify: uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire
bdb_dn2entry("uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire")
bdb_modify_internal: 0x0001fc23: uid=veinantep,ou=uds,ou=people,o=annuaire
<= acl_access_allowed: granted to database root
bdb_modify_internal: delete facsimileTelephoneNumber
bdb_modify_internal: 18 modify/delete: facsimileTelephoneNumber: no
equality matching rule
bdb_modify: modify failed (18)
send_ldap_result: conn=-1 op=0 p=0
send_ldap_result: err=18 matched="" text="modify/delete:
facsimileTelephoneNumber: no equality matching rule"
null_callback : error code 0x12
syncrepl_entry: rid=101 be_modify (18)
syncrepl_entry: rid=101 be_modify failed (18)

Thanks,

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    Alain ZAMBONI
    Direction Informatique
    Université de Strasbourg