Problems recovering my ldap db

Hi all, I am recovering form a disaster. when I do slapcat I can see all the info stored in the ldap db However, when I do ldapsearch I cannot see anything. When I do slapcat -l backup.ldif I get : unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered

I am using Debian 6 2.6.32-5-amd64 and :- ldapsearch -VV ldapsearch: @(#) $OpenLDAP: ldapsearch 2.4.23 (Dec 16 2012 11:48:21) $ root@carillon:/tmp/buildd/openldap-2.4.23/debian/build/clients/tools (LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20423)

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