Hi
We have a 3-way delta-mmr syncrepl setup (Debian Stretch with slapd 2.4.44+dfsg-5+deb9u1). 2 of those 3 hosts were powered off for about 4 hours. After the bootup and slapd start, the host which was running all the time during the downtime started to log:
SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=53 nentries=0 text=consumer state is newer than provider!
Purging the accesslog database fixed the issue.
Could this have happened due to a timesync problem? We noticed, that right after boot, the ntpd service was oscillating in its time offset from 0.0192 to 0.0003 for ~3 minutes.
Does somebody have experience with this?
Do we need to delay slapd or force an `ntpdate` before slapd starts in the boot process? Because slapd has the following LSB headers in the init script
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $network $syslog
it is started (using systemd service file autogenerated from init.d script) right after network.target has been reached and simultaneously with ntpd. Whereas slapd only takes about 1 second to start, ntpd takes about 10 seconds and it might even take much longer to get the time in sync.
Kind regards
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