Re: problem with openldap-2.0.27 - unsupported btree version 9

[Christian Stottmeister <ldaplist@mf8.de>]

hello list!

quanah, thanks for your quick response. sorry to say, i had much work to 
do and could not answer any earlier.

> > we're running fedora core 3 and openldap-2.0.27 (i can't upgrade due to
> > limitations in the design of our underlying application). we are working
> > with an official fedora-rpm-installation. when i try to initialize the
> > database using a ldif-file, i am running into trouble (ldbm =>
> > unsupported btree version: 9).

> I would guess that it is having a conflict with BDB software releases.  
> You don't list what version(s) of BDB are installed on your box.

i have investigated the source of bdb and found out that this is 
definately a bdb error-message. but accordingly to the code, the version 
of bdb we're using can handle version9-btrees.

to answer your question - this is version 4.2.56 of bdb:
# rpm -qa | grep db4
db4-devel-4.2.52-6
db4-4.2.52-6
db4-utils-4.2.52-6
gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438

as this is a production machine and several applications rely on it, i 
have not dared to leave all dependencies aside and upgrade the package 
anyway. shall i do so?

> Since you are using an "official fedora" installation, perhaps you best 
> contact RedHat.  OpenLDAP 2.0.x has been deprecated for a few years 
> now.  I would seriously advise fixing your underlying application so you 
> can upgrade off of 2.0.x. ;)

so thought i, but my co-developer is real serious about this version. 
perhaps we can negotiate this again in the near future. ;)

thanks in advance.
christian

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