Hi Marco, 

             Thanks for your response. I am trying out with slapacl, in the mean time can you advice  

1) I have master-master mode ldap but all the requests are sent to only one of the master. The other one is a mere replica. In this case will objectClass: glue get set?


2) I m sure that in our application if we are deleting anything we delete all the children nodes, 

      I mean, if web have a subtree like this one
      ou=a  --> ou=b  --> ou=c
      If we delete ou=b, then ou=c also gets deleted. So there shouldnt be any glued objects. 

   I assumed that ou=b becoming unavailble may be due to replication I mean ...  ou=>b may be in ldap1 and unavailable in ldap2 but tyring to update ou=>c in ldap2. 
     In that case will the original objectClass: (in ldap1) gets replaced by  objectClass: glue ?

 3) Can you advice how did you ultimately removed all the glued objects and did you tweek anything in ACL so that it never happened again ? 


Thanks
Karthik. 




On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Marco Pizzoli <marco.pizzoli@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I had the same problem some times ago.

I could be corrected by someone, but the glue is the way by which the OL system revert to represent entries that are accessible directly.
I mean, if you have a subtree like this one
 ou=a  --> ou=b  --> ou=c

Assume that your ou=b entry is not available anymore for any reason. The system represent it wuth an entry ou=b of objectClass=glue.

The cause of my problem was related to bad ACLs. So when my n-way multi-master systems tried to replicate them selves reverted to represent the entry in that way.
Suggestion: check with slapacl if your entry is accessible by clients (modifiers, master replicas, ecc...).

Marco


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:06 PM, karthik kumar <kumarkarthikn@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi .. 

Few of my ldap entries got changed like this 

objectClass: glue   
objectClass: top  
structuralObjectClass: glue

Those glued entries are not showing up in the ldapsearch. I took a dump and from the ldif file, realized the objectClass/ structuralObjectClass got changed.

I wanted to recover my ldap. So removed all those entries ( including the childnodes ). ldapadd  them back from a previous dump ( which wasnt glued). But after some time when I access those entries from application, they get glued. 

Can you please advice how do I recover my ldap from this.



--
_________________________________________
Non è forte chi non cade, ma chi cadendo ha la forza di rialzarsi.
                    Jim Morrison