Re: Requesting advice for repairing a syncRepl issue

["Benjamin Lewis" <bhlewis@gmail.com>]

Quanah,

You wrote:

> --On August 31, 2007 1:41:46 PM -0400 Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a pair of OpenLDAP servers that had been replicating flawlessly
> > with delta syncRepl for about 10 months.  Just the other day, I saw
> > that modifications were no longer being replicated and these messages
> > were appearing in the syslog on the master server immediately after
> > the MOD line:
>
> > Some specifics in case they matter:
> >
> > Master:
> > Solaris10 amd64
> > BDB 4.2.52 + 5 patches
> > OpenLDAP 2.3.30
>
> Fixed in OpenLDAP 2.3.35:
>
>         Fixed slapd syncrepl delta-sync modlist free (ITS#4904)
>
>
> I suggest you upgrade your master, given that 2.3.30 is already known to
> have an issue with delta-sync.  Also, rather than just stopping slapd and
> running slapindex, you may want to stop slapd, go to the cn=log db, and
> remove the index bdb files (keeping the database bdb files, like
> id2entry.bdb and dn2id.bdb), and then run slapindex, so that the old index
> files are completely purged.  I'll also note that 2.3.38 is the current
> stable release, so there are many other good reasons to upgrade. ;)

Thank you for the advice.  An upgrade to 2.3.38 was already planned
for other reasons but now I have good reason to push up the timeline.

Thanks again,

-Ben