Re: Problem with migrate to ldap authentication (Re Hat 7.2)

[Blake Barnett <blake.barnett@developonline.com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:00, John Dalbec wrote:

> > adding new entry "dc=jecinc, dc=on, dc=ca"
> > ldap_add: Unknown error
> >         additional info: entry store failed
> 
> This looks like an error from the backend.  You may be running out of space. 
> What does 'df' say?  Do you have a filesize limit in /etc/security/limits.conf? 
> Do your filesystems support files > 2GB?  (Well, I suppose the last question
> doesn't matter since AFAIK gdbm doesn't support files > 2GB.)

You may also want to double-check that you have all the correct schema's
loaded (and restart slapd once you've defined them).

> > 
> > ldif_record() = 80
> > Importing into LDAP...
> > ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> > /usr/bin/ldapadd: returned non-zero exit status
> > [root@Pentium_75 migration]#

This error looks suspciously like the scripts have a hard-coded default
for the servername or IP.  Or that your server segfaulted and died at
this point.  Perhaps running an strace on the process (with -fF to
follow forks) would tell us a bit more.

> 
> BTW I recommend RawHide OpenLDAP 2.0.19-1.  Among other improvements, it's
> multithreaded, so one process can't lock up the directory.
> John

I recommend the latest OpenLDAP version as well, I've had much better
success with it that earlier 2.x releases and the configuration is much
cleaner than the 1.x series.

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