Re: losing database on shutdown

["Ameet Chaubal" <ameet.chaubal@air2web.com>]

Hi

I ran the slapd with -d 255 and tried to do an ldapsearch like:

ldapsearch -b 'dc=myorg,dc=com' 'cn=*'

And I received a strange error on the debug output.:

=> dn2id( "DC=MYORG,DC=COM" )
=> ldbm_cache_open( "/usr/local/var/openldap-ldbm/dn2id.dbb", 7, 600 )
<= ldbm_cache_open NULL "/usr/local/var/openldap-ldbm/dn2id.dbb" errno 17
reason "File exists")
<= dn2id could not open dn2id.dbb

What does this mean. Is it trying to overwrite it?

Another strange thing.:
On restarting the slapd, if I try to do a lookup nothing is returned.
So I tried to add the data again using:
ldapadd -f my_ldif_format.file -D "cn=Manager,dc=myorg,dc=com"  -v -c -W

And I get :
ldap_add: Operations error

But then if I try to do a lookup , it succeeds!!

I am puzzled and lost.

Thanks again

ameet

----- Original Message -----
From: William L Anderson <band@wrc.xerox.com>
To: Ameet Chaubal <ameet.chaubal@air2web.com>
Cc: <openldap-software@openldap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: losing database on shutdown


> Ameet, I have the same environment as you, and have not seen this
> behavior.
>
> here are a couple of ideas of the top of my head:
>
> 1. you're sure that there is data in id2entry.dbb?
>
> 2. is schemacheck on in slapd.conf? this helps insure that added
> entries only have the attributes specified for defined objectclasses.
>
> 3. are you logging slapd activity? sometimes the logs can be very
> helpful. I have loglevel set to 256 in slapd.conf.
>
> 4. try running with full debug turned on in a scrolling shell window:
>
>    /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 255
>
> 5. try setting the database directory permissions to 755?
>
> Bill Anderson
>