Hi,
Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com writes:
--On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:26 PM +0200 Dieter Kluenter dieter@dkluenter.de wrote:
Hi, OpenLDAP-2.4.5beta SuSE-10.2 db-4.4.20 glibc-2.5.25
trying to run slapd an error occurs
backend_startup_one: starting "o=avci,c=de" bdb_db_open: o=avci,c=de bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed!(-1) slapd shutdown: initiated
Now, what would be a stable alock package?
I've generally hit this when something's occurred that alock can't recover from. Usually removing the alock file and running db_recover will allow slapd to start. You could relocate the alock file rather than removing it, and provide it back via an ITS for analysis, I hear. This may allow the underlying problem to get fixed.
fixed it. It actually is specific to SuSE. :-( After a run of SuSEconfig all file and directory properties are changed to default values, thus the owner of slapd could not write to the database files anymore. I should have known this, as I ran quite often into this trap.
-Dieter