Re: OpenLDAP 2.4.23 hangs when creating new group objects

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:27 AM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> 
wrote:

> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Having just upgraded our internal LDAP server from Debian Lenny (2.4.16
> > internal build) to Debian Squeeze (2.4.23), we have started to see
> > instances where the slapd process hangs and stops responding to all
> > requests until we kill -9 and restart the process.
> >
> > Bizarrely enough, we can reproduce this pretty much every time when we
> > try and create a new LDAP group using the GOsa web administration tool.
> > Is this a known issue at all? Next time it happens, I'm happy to post a
> > backtrace if you let me know what output you need from gdb to debug this.
>
> It would be more useful if you can reproduce this on 2.4.24.

Debian's squeeze build of OpenLDAP also contains a patch known to corrupt 
the database.  The first thing you want to do is abandon their build.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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