[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#625743: Error installing stable slapd package with omit config setting

[Nicolas Boos]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.4.23-7
Severity: serious


debconf configuration: dialog/low (via dpkg-reconfigure debconf)
slapd debconf question: "Omit OpenLDAP server configuration?" set to YES

apt-get install slapd fails like this:

Setting up slapd (2.4.23-7) ...
  Omitting slapd configuration as requested.
No configuration file was found for slapd at /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. ... (warning).
invoke-rc.d: initscript slapd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Leaving dpkg in an inconsistent state...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages slapd depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.8                4.8.30-2         Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26             2.8.6-1          the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-7         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libltdl7                2.2.6b-2         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libperl5.10             5.10.1-17        shared Perl library
ii  libsasl2-2              2.1.23.dfsg1-7   Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.8        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-19         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl [libmime-base64-pe 5.10.1-17        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  psmisc                  22.11-1          utilities that use the proc file s
ii  unixodbc                2.2.14p2-1       ODBC tools libraries

Versions of packages slapd recommends:
pn  libsasl2-modules              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages slapd suggests:
pn  ldap-utils                    <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  slapd/allow_ldap_v2: false
  slapd/password_mismatch:
  slapd/invalid_config: true
  shared/organization:
  slapd/upgrade_slapcat_failure:
* slapd/no_configuration: true
  slapd/move_old_database: true
  slapd/dump_database_destdir: /var/backups/slapd-VERSION
  slapd/purge_database: false
  slapd/domain:
  slapd/backend: HDB
  slapd/dump_database: when needed