ml+openldap@esmtp.org wrote:

The full log for one failed retry is:

I think we need to see more of the log than this. The only reason for your observed behavior to occur is that somewhere along the line, a step in the replication actually returned LDAP_SUCCESS, which resets the retry counter. So we need to see the complete log for at least one full cycle of "(4 retries left)", "(3 retries left)", "(4 retries left)".

conn=1004 op=0 BIND dn="cn=manager" method=128 conn=1004 op=0 BIND dn="cn=manager" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 conn=1004 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= conn=1004 op=1 SRCH base="" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(objectClass=*)" conn=1004 op=1 SRCH attr=* + srs csn 20110722201233.471069Z#000000#001#000000 log csn 20110722201233.471069Z#000000#001#000000 cmp 0, too old log csn 20110722201252.820971Z#000000#001#000000 Entry uid=user68,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com CSN 20110722201233.471069Z#000000#001#000000 older or equal to ctx 20110722201233.471069Z#000000#001#000000 syncprov_search_response: cookie=rid=001,sid=001,csn=20110722201252.820971Z#000000#001#000000 syncrepl_entry: rid=001 LDAP_RES_SEARCH_ENTRY(LDAP_SYNC_ADD) syncrepl_entry: rid=001 inserted UUID 95b838a2-4b55-4bcc-8b00-be329b138db0 conn=1004 fd=15 ACCEPT from PATH=/var/run/ldapi (PATH=/var/run/ldapi) syncrepl_entry: rid=001 be_search (52) syncrepl_entry: rid=001 uid=user69,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com null_callback : error code 0x34 syncrepl_entry: rid=001 be_add uid=user69,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com (52) syncrepl_entry: rid=001 be_add uid=user69,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com failed (52) do_syncrepl: rid=001 rc 52 retrying (4 retries left) conn=1004 op=2 UNBIND conn=1004 fd=15 closed connection_read(15): no connection! connection_read(15): no connection!