[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#696563: slapd not ready when start script exits, plase add sleep in starting script

[Steve Langasek]

tags 696563 -patch
thanks

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Fabien C. wrote:

> It is probably necessary to add in the /etc/init.d/slapd script, either a
> "sleep 2" or more, either a detection of the "readyness" of the slapd
> daemon.  One could also patch the slapd server, so it could handle this
> situation itself.

This is absolutely not an acceptable fix for this bug.  A 'sleep' only
reduces the frequency of a race, it does not eliminate it.  We need to find
out why the parent slapd process is again exiting before it's ready to
listen for connections - this is a regression, for a bug that was very
specifically supposed to have been fixed upstream in 2.4.28.  See bug
#589915 for the history.

The source files that were being patched for this haven't changed upstream
since 2.4.28, so I'm not sure what will have gone wrong.

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