RE: slapindex slapadd and corrupt indexes

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

The released version of slapindex does not rebuild the dn2id database. The
2.1.0alpha version does.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Salvador
> Salanova Fortmann
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:18 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: slapindex slapadd and corrupt indexes
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been bitten by the corrupt indexes problem that has  been
> discussed lately in the list.
>
> In our directory we have for each uid attribute 2 entries. Let's say
> that entries with attribute uid=abcd have become corrupted, when we
> search for an exact match (uid=abcd) we get the two entries. When we
> search for a substring match in the form (uid=abcd*), and the attribute
> that exists is uid=abcd, we get only one entry.
>
> At this point we decided to reindex using slapindex, but this did not
> solve the problem. After having a look at the db files we realized that
> dn2id.dbb was not rebuilt. So we decided to slapcat -> slapadd, all
> files  were rebuilt including dn2id.dbb. Our corruption problem is for
> now solved.
>
> Is this behaviour correct?? Shouldn't slapindex rebuild dn2id too??
>
> I want to mention that the master server and all the replicas are
> equally corrupted. We are running redhat 7.1 and OpenLdap 2.0.15.
>
> Someone on the list wrote tha redhat's 7.1 thread library was broken,
> could someone please tell us which libraries are ok to use ??
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
> Salvador Salanova Fortmann