I've also hit this on upgrade. It seems like the situation might be slightly complex. My ldap config does not use the slapd.conf method, but cn=config.
/etc/ldap/ldap.conf contains: BASE dc=company, dc=com URL ldap://localhost/ Running dpkg --configure gives: sudo dpkg --configure slapd Setting up slapd (2.4.15-1ubuntu3) ... Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1... done. Moving old database directories to /var/backups: Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1: - directory dc=company,dc=com... failed. Loading the database from the LDIF dump failed with the following error while running slapadd: slapadd: line 1: database (dc=company,dc=com) not configured to hold "dc=nodomain" slapadd: line 1: database (dc=company,dc=com) not configured to hold "dc=nodomain" dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: slapd The contents of the /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1 directory: 100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94218 2009-05-22 14:10 dc=company,dc=com.ldif 4 drwxr-x--- 3 openldap openldap 4096 2009-05-22 15:13 slapd.d Look at the .ldif mentioned there, it contains the following two entries: dn: dc=nodomain objectClass: top objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organization o: nodomain dc: nodomain structuralObjectClass: organization entryUUID: cc19087c-404b-102d-96c3-01fea4f68a30 creatorsName: createTimestamp: 20081106124011Z entryCSN: 20081106124011.789553Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: modifyTimestamp: 20081106124011Z dn: cn=admin,dc=nodomain objectClass: simpleSecurityObject objectClass: organizationalRole cn: admin description: LDAP administrator userPassword:: <PASSWORDHASHHERE> structuralObjectClass: organizationalRole entryUUID: cc19c4b0-404b-102d-96c4-01fea4f68a30 creatorsName: createTimestamp: 20081106124011Z entryCSN: 20081106124011.794497Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: modifyTimestamp: 20081106124011Z But _also_ sections like these with the correct dc=company,dc=com. My wild guess is that /var/lib/dpkg/info/slapd.postinst is at fault, specifically set_defaults_for_unseen_entries() with it's: DOMAIN=`hostname -d 2>/dev/null` || true if [ -z "$DOMAIN" ]; then DOMAIN='nodomain'; fi Wouter van Heyst -- [apport] package slapd failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs