Re: Apparent database corruption causing bus errors

[Chuck Meyer <chuck@popes.com>]

Sorry, like I said I'm very new to this so I'm not certain what info is 
pertinent.

> From slapd.conf:

$OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/slapd.conf,v 1.23.2.8
...
database        bdb

This is my first installation, so everything is more or less set to 
defaults.

Also, doing a quick "locate" I don't seem to have recover_db installed. Is 
it something I can install after the fact or is this related to my 
database type/OpenLDAP version?

Thanks for your help!

Chuck


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, matthew sporleder wrote:

> You left out a lot of key information like the version of openldap,
> and the backend you're using.  Assuming you're using back-bdb, you
> might want to try the fink-installed db_recover.
>
> On 2/2/06, Chuck Meyer <chuck@popes.com> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I've been using openLDAP casually on my Mac OS 10.3 system for about 6
> > months now (via fink installation).
> >
> > I had a power outage recently and now my LDAP crashes on search
> > consistently with a bus error.
> >
> > I attempted to do a slapcat to extract the data and (after exporting
> > several entries)  I see the following:
> >
> > entry_decode: "8Z"
> > <= entry_decode(8Z)
> > # id=0000007f
> > Bus error
> >
> > Since there's no way "8Z" is a valid record, I'm assuming my database has
> > been corrupted.  Is there any way to recover the data beyond this record
> > or to repair the database?
> >
> > So far my searches are making me believe I'm going to have to export the
> > data I can, recreate the database and re-add all missing records.  I'm
> > hoping there may be an easier solution?
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
> >
> > Chuck Meyer
> > chuck@popes.com