[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#466569: slapd: Needs a newer libdb, now that sasl is using 4.6

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:56:23PM +0000, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.7-5
> Severity: important

> Recently, SASL moved from db4.2 to db4.6, while slapd is still built
> against 4.2 - and as a result, slapd is flooding the logs with this:

> slapd[24852]: SASL [conn=7156] Error: unable to open Berkeley db
> /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument

No, I don't believe this is the source of the error.  There are no handles
being passed between libsasl and slapd that would cause the wrong libdb to
be used when accessing this file, only libsasl itself will access this file
directly; and both versions of libdb have symbol versioning which ensures
that libsasl uses the correct libdb when opening this database.

Do you have an /etc/sasldb2 that you intend to use with slapd?  By default
SASL will try to use this database when not otherwise configured; I don't
recall what error message it spits out in that case, and don't have that in
front of me at the moment.  If you do have an /etc/sasldb2 that works with
other apps but not with slapd, then we'll have to dig deeper for the cause,
since upgrading slapd to db4.6 should not be required and is not really
appropriate right now.

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