On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Troy Telford wrote: > I'm running sid; there was a couple of recent updates to slapd, from 2.4.21-1 > to 2.4.23-1 (and then 2.4.23-2) > > The config itself wasn't changed; the backup file made is the same as the > current one. > > However, slapd doesn't start anymore. > > All I have to go on is the following: > (/var/log/auth.log): > Jul 16 12:26:53 pilot slapd[7441]: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter > supplied > Jul 16 12:26:53 pilot slapd[7441]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on > sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb > > and the following from syslog: > syslog.0:Jul 15 23:04:29 pilot slapd[3050]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.23 (Jul > 15 2010 19:20:59) $ > ^ir...@monster:/tmp/buildd/openldap-2.4.23/debian/build/servers/slapd > > From what I've looked at for the auth.log, that error isn't a fatal one; > slapd isn't/can't use the plugin anyway. > > But it is disconcerting to have slapd stop working entirely, with zero config > changes on my part. >
I found the solution: it was a db version issue. I did the following: cd /var/lib # make a backup just in case... rsync -aP ldap ldap.org cd ldap db4.8_recover db4.8_checkpoint -1 chown openldap:openldap * /etc/init.d/slapd start And now ldap works again. -- Troy Telford ttelford.gro...@gmail.com
