Comment 9 for bug 442498

I am in the same boat. I had a perfectly working ldap setup with two replicating servers on Jaunty. I made the stupid decision to upgrade to Karmic and lo and behold the configuration broke! After a couple of days of trying to find a solution to this problem, i looked at the files in /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ and looked at the files that had changed. I found that the upgrade inserted some weird acl line to restrict access except by root. This was preventing phpldapadmin from working.

I removed the acl manually from the two files that had it (sorry, i don't remember the name of the files) and that restored the base search functionality but now, I have strange replication problems. Things are inconsistent. If I add a user to one server, it may or may not replicate to the other server. Its madness... All of it was working 100% before. What did you guys do in Karmic???

There is another bug in php 5 that prevents phplapadmin from working but there is a fix for that particular bug.

I don't know if the replication problems are related to me manually removing the darn acl line from the two files. I guess I should have used the ldapmodify command. I am new at this ldap stuff with cn=config. I liked it way better when we had slapd.conf file to quickly change things.

If anyone has any insight on what might be wrong with syncrepl in karmic, please let us know.