Re: (ITS#3764) deadlocked bdb

[hyc@symas.com]

Aaron Richton wrote:
> Now that I've had some time to think about it, one difference between this
> database and the others (that shutdown clean) is that I ran a slapcat on
> it while this slapd was active. Not sure if that can help or not (if
> there's some way that tool mode could have left that lock?)
>   
As a matter of fact, that's a very common way for this problem to occur. 
If you run slapcat but interrupt it before it completely dumps the 
database, it doesn't clean up after itself. We probably need to add a 
signal handler to take care of things.
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