Re: cleaning HDB after an unclean shutdown

[Benin Technologies <benintechnologies@yahoo.fr>]

Yep, you were right, the process was still there !!! (I launched slapd 
manually, and thought CTRL+C would kill it, but it didn't).

After killing the process slapd starts fine

thanks

Le 06/05/2013 21:41, Howard Chu a écrit :
> Benin Technologies wrote:
> > nope, Debian 6.0.4
>
> The only reason for slapd to say the database is already in use is 
> because a file lock still exists. In this case it implies that the 
> original slapd process is still there. You said you already killed it 
> but it sounds like the process hasn't gone away.
> > Le 06/05/2013 20:25, Howard Chu a écrit :
> > > Benin Technologies wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm doing some tests on a perl backend, which causes sometimes my
> > > > OpenLDAP to hang. I then kill the process, but when I try to restart
> > > > openldap it won't, because of my HDB backend. I get the following
> > > > message :
> > > >
> > > > db_db_open: database "dc=mycompany": database already in use.
> > > >
> > > > After rebooting the server, everything works fine.
> > > >
> > > > Any way to "clean" the HDB backend manually, without having to reboot
> > > > the server ?
> > >
> > > Sounds like you're running on Windows, which takes a long time after a
> > > process dies for it to release its file locks. I don't know of any
> > > solution other than to wait for Windows to eventually notice the
> > > process is gone.
> > >
> > > The smarter solution of course is to quit using such a braindead OS as
> > > a server platform.