Re: error after OS upgrade

[Greg Martin <gmartin@gmartin.org>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:32 PM +0100 Gavin Henry 
> <ghenry@suretecsystems.com> wrote:
>
> > <quote who="Greg Martin">
> > > I upgrade to Slackware 12 this weekend and now openldap won't start.  A
> > > google search didn't help me. I'm running 2.3.27.
> > >
> > > I can restore from backup, just want to make sure that's necessary and
> > > maybe I can learn something in the process.
> > >
> > > Errors from the tail end of ldap.log:
> > >
> > > bdb(dc=gmartin,dc=org): unable to allocate memory for mutex; resize
> > > mutex region
> > > bdb_db_open: Database cannot be opened, err 12. Restore from backup!
> > >  ====> bdb_cache_release_all
> > > bdb(dc=gmartin,dc=org): DB_ENV->lock_id_free interface requires an
> > > environment configured for the locking subsystem
> > > bdb(dc=gmartin,dc=org): txn_checkpoint interface requires an 
> > > environment
> > > configured for the transaction subsystem
> > > bdb_db_close: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22)
> >
> > Looks like Berkeley DB got upgraded, so your data was made with a 
> > previous
> > version.
>
> And make sure they aren't using BDB 4.3. :P
>
> --Quanah
>
>
> --
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
> --------------------
> Zimbra ::  the leader in open source messaging and collaboration

Slack appears to have skipped 4.3.  This is version 4.4 and slack 11 had 4.2.  I was able to slapadd the ldif to a new db and all is well.  My ignorant user question is this: if I was planning this upgrade (as I should have, but this is my hobby machine), is there a way to upconvert the db?

\\Greg