Re: index generation failed

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

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Kevin Williams wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm doing my first LDAP install and almost completed it without a hitch!
| Unfortunately LDAP commands fail on me every time, and I can't figure out
| why.  For example, I want to add "Groups" (in an ldif file).  Here's the
| file:
|
| dn: ou=Groups,dc=tarity,dc=com
| ou: Groups
| objectClass: organizationalUnit
|
| If I do it using slapadd it works great!  But if I do it using ldapadd, it
| fails with the following error message:
| "ldap_add: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
| additional info: index generation failed
|
| I get similar error messages when I try to modify or delete records as
well
| via ldapmodiy.
|
| I traced this down to an index issue (OBVIOUSLY) and removed the following
| line from my slapd.conf file (last line in the file):
| index	objectClass	eq
|
| When I commented this line out, it worked like a champ...the thing is, I
| would like to USE indexes (I've been told their helpful after all:) )
|
| Does anyone know what might be happening here?  Why does the insert of the
| object work, but the insert of the index fail?  Is there something I
need to
| do to configure indexes that I missed during setup?  I'm on Gentoo, using
| openldap 2.1.26.

Most likely your problem was that the user ldap was running as did not
have permissions to write to the indexes ... always be very careful
after using slapadd (I assume you ran as root, not the ldap user) to
ensure that this does not happen.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng                                RHCE (803004789010797)
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