Comment 10 for bug 14929

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Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 04:36:49 +0200
From: Torsten Landschoff <email address hidden>
To: Richard A Nelson <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#302629: slapd: Unstable upgrade (2.1 -> 2.2) failures

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Hi Richard,=20

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.2.23-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

Come on...

> 1) use of ldapi:/// fails:
> ldap_url_parse_ext(ldapi:///????x-mod=3D0777)
> daemon: bind(10) failed errno=3D2 (No such file or directory)
> slap_open_listener: failed on ldapi:///????x-mod=3D0777
>=20
> The cause seems to be that the ./configure script had bad settings -
> the binary expects /var/run/run/ldapi instead of the proper
> /var/run/ldapi

Very interesting. I got reports by a tester that this is the case and
some workaround but forgot about it.

> 2) error in parsing the saved ldif file:
> Setting up slapd (2.2.23-1) ...
> Enabling LDAPv2 support... already enabled.
> Updating config access directives... done.
> Moving old database directories to /var/backups:
> Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.1.30-3:=20
> - directory dc=3Dcavein,dc=3Dorg... slapadd: could not parse entry
> (line=3D316) failed.

That's quite known an issue. If you consider this grave, we can't put
slapd 2.2 in Debian as 2.2 fails on a lot of 2.1 and even more of 2.0
directories. I am working on a README type upgrade document which tells
the user.

> Well, that was a helpful message (I know, not your fault) :)

I think it is - at least you got the line number...

> The issue seems to be that slapcat created the root entry like this:
> uidNumber: 0000
> gidNumber: 0000
>=20
> but slapadd barfs on that, saying it is an invalid number! Changing
> the 0000 to 0 for the user and group settings worked fine

=2E.. and another incompatibility.

Greetings

 Torsten

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