Dear Members of OpenLDAP Technical List,

Could you please help in finding and explanation and potentially a fix for the bug reported at [1]? It seems it has been found often enough by Elmar as well to write a workaround [2].

Thanks, Balint

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673038 [2] https://github.com/elmar/ldap-git-backup/blob/master/README.mdown#safe-ldif

On 06/19/2012 06:27 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

--On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:25 PM +0200 Axel Beckert abe@debian.org wrote:

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Hi Steve,

Steve Langasek wrote:

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According to the slapcat man page it should be "always safe to run slapcat with the slapd-bdb(5) ... backends" even if slapd runs. We do use a BDB backend.

Note that the HDB backend is the one recommended upstream and the Debian default.

Well, yeah, that system has been dist-upgraded from at least Etch. IIRC it started at some time when BDB was still the default.

I wrote that -- according to our backups -- this happened already with Lenny's slapd. But with Lenny it seemed to have happened less often (which is why we noticed it only recently).

Personally, I would advise you to ask a question about this on openldap-technical@openldap.org. I asked Howard about it, and he had a ready answer as to why you were seeing this, but I forget what it is. In any case, this is not a debian specific openldap bug.

--Quanah

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