Re: alock package is unstable

[Ralf Haferkamp <rhafer@suse.de>]

On Mittwoch, 12. September 2007, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> writes:
> > --On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:26 PM +0200 Dieter Kluenter
> >
> > <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> OpenLDAP-2.4.5beta
> >> SuSE-10.2
> >> db-4.4.20
> >> glibc-2.5.25
> >>
> >> trying to run slapd an error occurs
> >>
> >> backend_startup_one: starting "o=avci,c=de"
> >> bdb_db_open: o=avci,c=de
> >> bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable
> >> backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed!(-1)
> >> slapd shutdown: initiated
> >>
> >> Now, what would be a stable alock package?
> >
> > I've generally hit this when something's occurred that alock can't
> > recover from.  Usually removing the alock file and running db_recover
> > will allow slapd to start.  You could relocate the alock file rather
> > than removing it, and provide it back via an ITS for analysis, I hear.
> > This may allow the underlying problem to get fixed.
>
> fixed it. It actually is specific to SuSE. :-(
> After a run of SuSEconfig all file and directory properties are
> changed to default values, thus the owner of slapd could not write to
> the database files anymore.
SuSEconfig doesn't change any permission for files of OpenLDAP (there is no 
SuSEconfig script for OpenLDAP). If it does then it is a bug and you should 
report it to bugzilla.novell.com (put me into CC please).

> I should have known this, as I ran quite 
> often into this trap.

-- 
Ralf