Hi, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:40 AM, <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; wrote: ... I've modified my copy of the source to normalize data where needed. slapd starts up and my test can run. With the old assertion in place it fails exactly as it did before, because the old attr_merge() assertion runs before your new attr_valadd() normalization check. Removing the old attr_merge() assertion results in your new attr_valadd() check being triggered. Removing the old assertion looks safe, since attr_merge() calls attr_valadd() almost immediately after the assertion anyway. With these changes, running my test script from the original tarball results in: bdb_modify_internal: add testAttribute attr_valadd: database inconsistent with schema definition of testAttribute, reload the DB bdb_modify_internal: 80 modify/add: testAttribute: merge error (80) hdb_modify: modify failed (80) I'm working through 'make test' now to find more instances that need fixing. After that I'll send some patches. I'm not even sure that attributes can be automatically renormalized when a problem is detected, since bugs (eg. with the generation of timestamps, CSNs or referalls) can also trigger the normalization checks. -- Thanks, Sean Burford