Re: slapcat hangs without error message

[Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack@terra.com.br>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:04:29AM +0100, Voigtlaender@hansenet.com wrote:
> I am running a slapd 2.2.23 (debian package) with a bdb Backend on a
> Debian Sarge system. I want to use slapcat for backing up my database,
> but it does never dump the complete data. After running a while it
> just stops and is doing nothing anymore. I am a bit nervous right now,
> is there another way to get a ldif dump, or some way of debugging to
> find the error ? I did try slapcat -d 256, but that did not show
> anything unnormal, it just stopped.

Sounds like a corrupted database. You should try to recover it
(db-recover, or db_recover, or db4.2_recover, etc).