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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Saturday, December 22, 2012 3:54 PM -0800 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

I suggest reading followup #2 in 
<http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=6848>, the upstream ITS 
dealing with this.  It is specifically noted that on a heavily loaded 
system, this can still occur.

The real solution is to switch to back-mdb from back-bdb/hdb, which doesn't 
have the heavy startup load that BDB based backends do.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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