Bug#377812: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#377812: slapd won't start at all

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, July 31, 2006 7:53 PM +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut 
<ericvb at debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:48:00AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, July 31, 2006 7:03 PM +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut
>> <Eric.VanBuggenhaut at AdValvas.be> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:13 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --On Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:10 PM +0200 Eric Van Buggenhaut
>> >> <Eric.VanBuggenhaut at AdValvas.be> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> piano:/var/lib/ldap# slapcat -l db_to_backup.ldif
>> >>> slap_startup failed
>> >>>
>> >>> Why does this fail ?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for your patience.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Please send the output of:
>> >>
>> >> slapcat -d -1 -l db_to_backup.ldif
>> >
>> > Attached is the result of the command.
>>
>> Seems fairly obvious to me, if you read the last line of the log you
>> sent  in.  You are using back-sql, which is highly experimental, and has
>> at  least 20 bug fixes in the HEAD OpenLDAP code.  It quite clearly
>> states at  the end of your log:
>>
>> <==backsql_db_open(): test succeeded, schema map loaded
>> slapcat: database doesn't support necessary operations.
>>
>>
>> Therefore, slapcat can't export the back-sql db.
>
> Well, it has been working fine for the last two years... Why did
> things break all of a sudden ?

My guess would be you weren't supposed to be able to slapcat a mysql 
database in the first place.  I'd take the question to 
openldap-software at openldap.org and ask there.  The developer of back-sql 
reads it quite avidly.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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