Sent: Sun May 27 2012 14:18:23 GMT-0400 (EDT)
From: Elias Probst <mail@eliasprobst.eu>
To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: syncrepl for cn=config, changes fail with "tag=103 err=53 text=shadow context; no update referral" 
On Sunday 27 May 2012 19:49:29 Patrick H. wrote:


You need to enable MirrorMode. The official mult-master replication guide
covers this, http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/replication.html#N-Way
Multi-Master You are getting the error because the database thinks it is a
slave to the other database, so it disallows local writes. MirrorMode is
just as it sounds, both servers are 'mirrors'.


Enabling MirrorMode causes my initial cn=config seeding to fail:
4fc26d8c /tmp/slapd.conf: line 31: <MirrorMode> database is not a shadow

I've compared my config to the one in the official N-Way Multi-Master guide 
but couldn't spot the relevant difference here.

The error message sounds misleading to me, suggesting one of both mirrors 
should be a shadow DB while I actually want both to be equal.

Any idea? Did I miss something basic?

- Elias
Where are you putting the MirrorMode parameter?
When I copy/paste your config you provided in the first email into an editor, line 31 is before "database config", which would be the problem. You need to put it after "database config" so that it applies to the config database.

As for the shadow thing, both server's are shadows/consumers. Theyre also both providers.

-Patrick