I know you're not using BDB 4.6 with OpenLDAP 2.3, so this patch isn't strictly relevant to this ITS. It just raises the possibility that there is a BDB bug involved.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Berkeley DB Announce] Berkeley DB 4.6.21.1 - Patch Announcement Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:03:40 -0400 From: bdb@oss.oracle.com Reply-To: bdb@oss.oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corporation To: bdb@oss.oracle.com

A patch for Berkeley DB release 4.6.21 that fixes a race condition between checkpoint and DB->close() which can result in the checkpoint thread self-deadlocking (SR [#15692]) is now available. We recommend all users of Berkeley DB apply this patch so as to avoid this issue in production.

An web page with all patches (currently only one) for Berkeley DB 4.6.21. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/update/4.6.21/patc h.4.6.21.html

A text file with the patch: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/update/4.6.21/patc h.4.6.21.1

regards, the Berkeley DB Team,

-greg

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Gregory Burd greg.burd@oracle.com Product Manager, Berkeley DB/JE/XML Oracle Corporation

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