https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10524

Issue ID: 10524 Summary: slaptest attempts to open a new database, instead of creating it Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: nivanova@symas.com Target Milestone: ---

The issue appears when one decides to convert a slapd.conf file to cn=config, if slapd has never been started with said slapd.conf, and the slapd.conf contains a database definition.

For the purpose of testing another issue, I wrote a brand new slapd.conf and attempted to convert it into a brand new configuration directory, before starting up slapd.

Example slapd.conf:

database config rootdn cn=config rootpw secret

database mdb directory ./mdb_test suffix dc=ldap,dc=example,dc=com rootdn cn=admin,dc=ldap,dc=example,dc=com rootpw secret

I create the mdb_test directory and the configuration directory (crash.d) and run:

slapd -T test -f slap_mdb.conf -F crash.d

which fails: mdb_db_open: database "dc=ldap,dc=example,dc=com" cannot be opened: No such file or directory (2). Administrator intervention needed! backend_startup_one (type=mdb, suffix="dc=ldap,dc=example,dc=com"): bi_db_open failed! (2)

If I start slapd with the .conf file it starts up sucessfully and createds the database. After that a slaptest run succeeds, because the database already exists.

This is probably a rare use case, but I think we need to decide if this is desired behavior and fix it if not.