Hello,

I’m running openldap 2.3.43 on CentOS  5.3 machine (1 Xeon @2.33GHz, 1.5GB RAM).

My LDAP directory contains about 158000 entry (users) loaded from a massive ldif add.

I’m using hdb database and I defined a couple of additional indexes to default configuration.

Very often (not every time) I stop the service and restart I recive this message:

hdb_db_open: unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.

hdb_db_open: Recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered.

After I recive this message I can’t contact ldap server and I have to run slapd_db_recover (that takes long time) to recover db.

This is a test environment and at this time there is no activity on the server (no read/write operations).

This is DB_CONFIG file content (/var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG):

# $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/DB_CONFIG,v 1.1.2.4 2007/12/18 11:51:46 ghenry Exp $

# Example DB_CONFIG file for use with slapd(8) BDB/HDB databases.

#

# See the Oracle Berkeley DB documentation

#   <http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/env/db_config.html>

# for detail description of DB_CONFIG syntax and semantics.

#

# Hints can also be found in the OpenLDAP Software FAQ

#       <http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=2>

# in particular:

#   <http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=1075>

# Note: most DB_CONFIG settings will take effect only upon rebuilding

# the DB environment.

# one 0.25 GB cache

# set_cachesize 0 268435456 1

set_cachesize 0 629145600 1

# Data Directory

#set_data_dir db

# Transaction Log settings

set_lg_regionmax 262144

#EXP set_lg_bsize 2097152

#set_lg_dir logs

# Note: special DB_CONFIG flags are no longer needed for "quick"

# slapadd(8) or slapindex(8) access (see their -q option).

I tried to reduce lg_buffer_size to force the server write log file more often to avoid possible “lost transaction” but this isn’t working.

Any ideas about the cause of these db corruptios?

Thanks a lot,

Gabriele