Re: openldap 2.1 aborting

[Stephan Kleinowski <stephan@kleinowski.de>]

Hi again,

thanks for reply. How can I check the existance of an entry of white 
space(s) ? My search string is similiar to: "foo / bar"...

Stephan


Stig Venaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:27:25PM +0200, Stephan Kleinowski wrote:
>
> > I updated my slapd from 2.0.23 to 2.1.3 and imported all my data without 
> > any problem.
> > But now, if I do a search on ex. employeeType, slapd aborts with this 
> > assertion:
> >
> > slapd: schema_init.c:554: UTF8StringNormalize: Assertion 
> > normalized->bv_len' failed.
> > Aborted
> >
> > Can someone please explain, what this assertion is all about ?
>
>
> The current code strips leading white space from the UTF8String and
> then there is an assertion on the remaining length which means that
> there is an abort() if it is zero. Assertions are used to safely
> bail out if there is some error that shouldn't occur. I don't think
> this assertion should be here, an empty normalized string should be
> returned. I see no point in having a value with all white space, but
> I don't think abort() is right.
>
> It's hard to say exactly why you got this problem, do you have a
> string that is all white space? Since this is happening when you
> search on employeeType, I would guess either one of the stored
> employeeType values or in your search filter.
>
> Stig