OK this works. My mistake, the concerned character is in fact a Windows character (CP1252) I hadn't noticed when I converted my schema to a text file.

-----Message d'origine----- De : Hallvard Breien Furuseth [mailto:h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no] Envoyé : lundi 20 octobre 2008 19:39 À : Emmanuel Duru Cc : openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org Objet : RE: (ITS#5755) Schema file not always converted to LDIF and slapdwon't restart

The problem is the 8-bit Latin-1 character in the certificate's DESC. It works if you convert the schema file to UTF-8.

Slapd should have refused to start with a non-UTF-8 attribute DESC. Possibly that should wait for OpenLDAP 2.5 though, and just log a warning for now.

-- Hallvard