--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.

--Quanah

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On Mittwoch, 12. September 2007, Dieter Kluenter wrote:

Hi,

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@zimbra.com writes:

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--On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:26 PM +0200 Dieter Kluenter

dieter@dkluenter.de wrote:

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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.

SuSEconfig doesn't change any permission for files of OpenLDAP (there is no SuSEconfig script for OpenLDAP). If it does then it is a bug and you should report it to bugzilla.novell.com (put me into CC please).

I should have known this, as I ran quite often into this trap.