[Bug 1362481] Re: openldap upgrade fails. chwon of olcDbDirectory, /var/lib/ldap not empty and missing backup of suffix

[Ryan Tandy]

Great. Thanks for that link, and also for the analysis and suggestions.
You're right: there is an implicit assumption that suffixes are unique,
and this setup is a valid one that breaks it.

With this change:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-
openldap/openldap.git/commit/debian/slapd.scripts-
common?id=57b0cc5ae377b00219e73be87e0c3a151b5eda99

the dump part at least doesn't fail ("slapcat -b dc=example,dc=com" is
executed twice, operating on the disk-backed db both times), but I
wouldn't exactly call that correct.

Of course, running "slapadd -b dc=example,dc=com" twice is never going
to work. (Well, maybe if the database is totally empty.) (Additionally,
moving the old database out of the way doesn't work if we have {1}ldap
and {2}hdb instead of the reverse.)

I already wanted to redo the loops like you suggested; this is just
another reason to move forward on that. Probably it would be most robust
to use slap{cat,add} -nN instead of -b $suffix; at least that would have
the least chance for ambiguity.

** Changed in: openldap (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: openldap (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ryan Tandy (rtandy)

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  openldap upgrade fails. chwon of olcDbDirectory, /var/lib/ldap not
  empty and missing backup of suffix

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