Hi!
I had a similar situation with delta-syncrepl, and I’d wish there were a tool like “touch” to force sending out the current object to the other servers. This problem is specific to delta-syncrepl, I guess (as the other methods will most likely “pull” any missing objects)
Kind regards, Ulrich Windl
From: cyril@stoll.info cyril@stoll.info Sent: Monday, July 28, 2025 11:52 AM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: [EXT] Transform glue object to organizationalUnit
Hi
For some reason (probably after update to openldap-ltb 2.6.10, or after reload due to renewed certificate) we lost one organizationalUnit object on one of our two provider servers. However there are still two user objects that belong to this lost organzationalUnit. Therefore openldap created a glue object for the lost organizationalUnit. On the second provider server (setup as multiprovider with the first one) the organzationalUnit object is still present and all looks like it should. I have no idea why one of the providers is still ok and the other is not since they are otherwise in sync as far as I can tell.
Unfortunately I did not find clear instructions on how to handle this situation. The best instructions I found are 15 years old: http://blog.mycroes.nl/2010/06/recovering-from-glue-objects-in.html I have no experience with dumping everything with slapcat, deleting the whole database directory (scary) and importing everything again and it does sound a bit brutish.
So I asked some AI and it suggested to use ldapmodify to replace the glue object with an ldif like this:
dn: ou=serviceusers,dc=example,dc=com changetype: modify add: objectClass objectClass: organizationalUnit - add: ou ou: serviceusers
However that did not work as I got the following error message:
modifying entry "ou=serviceusers,dc=example,dc=com" ldap_modify: No such object (32) matched DN: ou=serviceusers,dc=example,dc=com
So my question is do I have to use the method of dumping everything with slapcat and then changeing the ldif (rewrite glue to organziationalUnit, etc.) and importing it all again? Or is there a more elegant solution to get the organizationalUnit back?
Thanks already in advance for every helping suggestion/link/explanation!
Best regards, Cyril