tags + moreinfo thanks On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> Package: slapd > Version: 2.4.23-5 > Severity: critical > > After the last upgrade of slapd my complete sytem was unusable because > the update ran a rm -f /*. > > this fortunatly was not able to delete the directory bin, sbin, home, > var, ... but it deleted the symlink lib64 -> lib (amd64 system) and then > the linker was not able to find some libraries so the system was > unusable. I was able to recover the link by boot cd, so I think I did > not lose any data. > > Background: I installed slapd on my desktop for testing with > ldapbackend. I just did a straight installation of slapd but I changed > slapd.conf afterwards to use the ldap-backend. > During the upgrade either slapd.config or slapd.postinst failed and > tried to delete the database directory but since my slapd.conf did not > contain any directory statement any more get_directory returned nothing > and $dbdir was emtpy. So instead of rm -f "$dbdir"/* it ran rm -f /*! > > Please add a test that checks if $dbdir has any value! > > Btw: I think rm -f "$dbdir"/* can run into MAX_ARGS. maybe using find > .... -delete would be better > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages slapd depends on: > ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups > ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management > sy > ii libc6 2.11.2-5 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 2.4.23-5 OpenLDAP libraries > ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen > wrappe > ii libperl5.10 5.10.1-14 shared Perl library > ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-6 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 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init > scrip > ii perl [libmime-base64-perl 5.10.1-14 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: > ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.23.dfsg1-6 Cyrus SASL - pluggable > authenticat > > Versions of packages slapd suggests: > ii ldap-utils 2.4.23-5 OpenLDAP utilities > - Hi Joerg, Can you supply a configuration file (/etc/ldap/slapd.conf) ? Make sure there is no confidential information in that file. Furthermore, can you supply the debconf information ? Regards, Matthijs Mohlmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
