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Re: (ITS#5927) assertion error when using pcache
mhardin@symas.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Matthew Hardin
> Version: 2.4.13
> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 i686
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (74.38.114.185)
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have an LDAP server that is proxying for Active Directory. Periodically slapd
> throws an assertion:
>
> slapd: [....]/ldap24/servers/slapd/schema_init.c:524: octetStringIndexer:
> Assertion `i > 0' failed.
> /etc/init.d/solserver: line 192: 6620 Aborted (core dumped)
> "$EXEC_DIR/$PROC" $ARGS -h "$HOST_LIST" $EXTRA_SLAPD_ARGS
>
> Howard Chu's examination of the core file showed that the remote AD server
> returned a member attribute with no values. This is only legal in LDAP when a
> client sets the attrsonly flag in its search request, and that flag was not set
> here.
>
> The indexer rightly asserts because pcache handed it an attribute with nothing
> to
> index.
>
> I'm not sure what the correct thing to do might be here, but it should not take
> down the slapd.
The entry should not be cached, IMHO.
p.
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