Comment 23 for bug 6942

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:11:11 +0200
From: Roland Bauerschmidt <email address hidden>
To: Martin Helas <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#257513: [debian-openldap] Bug#257513: slapd: Fails to install on mips

Martin Helas wrote:
> i did some extended research on that bug and discovered that changing the
> backend from bdb to ldbm resolves the problem. So there seems to be some problem
> with bdb.

Are you sure that there wasn't simply something left in /var/lib/ldap
from a previous slapadd attempt? We should probably handle that more
gracefully though. Try removing /var/lib/ldap/* and installing again. I
bet that works.

Roland