Re: db corruption?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:28 PM -0600 Aaron Thoreson 
<aaront@midco.net> wrote:

> I got no response to my previous question regarding deleting replogs, rej
> logs and status files, but I believe I've figured it out through trial
> and error.  An affirmation of those beliefs would be nice though.
>
> I took down the master slapd and slurpd, then took down the slave slapd.
> I copied the .dbb files to the slave slapd, removed the .rej logs, the
> .status log and the .replog log.  I then brought services back up. Things
> seemed to be ok for a while, but my DBs have drifted out of synch again.
>
> If I run an ldapsearch on the replica for one of the affected accounts, I
> get no results.  I try to delete the account, and I get:

Sounds like database corruption to me.  Did you have an unclean shutdown? 
Have you tried running db_recover?  Have you thought of using slapcat on 
the master and then slapadd on the replica?

--Quanah

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