Re: Problem unexpected failing slapd

[harry.jede@arcor.de]

Ruud Baart wrote:
> Op 28-2-2011 3:00, Howard Chu schreef:
> > Ruud Baart wrote:
> >> Problem:
> >> For a customer we use LDAP for many years. Last year suddenly the
> >> slapd service just stopped without any traces in the logfiles.
> >> After a restart of slapd everything works fine again. But the
> >> problem was there: it was not an incident, now and then slapd just
> >> stops and always without any traces in the logfiles. Sometime
> >> three times a day, sometime a week without a failure. I can't find
> >> a pattern or any relation to any other service on the linux
> >> server.
> >
> > Attach to the running slapd with gdb, type
> >     handle all nostop
> >     continue
> > and let it run. If there's a crash you'll see what happened in gdb.
>
> I tried it but I don't get this working. I have no experience with
> gdb. I assume I do something wrong.
>
> Normally slapd daemon runs like this on a test machine
>       /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldapi:/// -g openldap -u openldap
> -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -l local5
>
> If I try this running attached to gdb:
> su openldap -s /bin/bash
> gdb --args  /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldapi:/// -g openldap -u
> openldap -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -l local5
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian
> ....
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
> ..
> Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/slapd...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
May be it's agood idea to install the slapd package with debug infos.

aptitude search slapd
i   slapd                           - OpenLDAP server (slapd)                   
p   slapd-dbg                       - Debugging information for the 
OpenLDAP server




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Harry Jede