LDAP with Breezy Badger

[Andrea Giuliano]

I had that problem too. Now it works, here is how I got it.

You should find in /var/backups/slapd* an *.ldif file, or maybe more 
than one, which is a dump of your LDAP directories. Save a copy of them 
as soon as possible, and have a look at them just to check you didn't 
loose your data.

Change the backend for your directories to "bdb" (mine was "ldbm", it 
seems deprecated now).

Clean up or recreate empty dirs (I mean on the file system) if your 
config needs so, and try to restart slapd. If it runs, try to populate 
your directories with "slapadd -l file.ldif" (for every file you have).

Finally, comment out or put to "no" the variable TRY_BDB_RECOVERY in 
/etc/defaults/slapd. At present, I have it commented, and it works. 
Actually, it must work because /etc/init.d/slapd checks if it is "yes" 
in order to try to recover the database. I wonder why it should do this, 
I'm not familiar with BDB.

Sorry, I'm not sure I told you all I did. I hope it could be a start for 
you.

Ashwani Jain wrote:
> Hi
> 
>     I was using Ubuntu 5.04 and installed slapd using synaptic.  slapd 
> was working good with it.  Today I upgraded to Ubuntu 5.10 breezy badger 
> and after that ldap stopped working.  If I try to start slapd deamon it 
> returns error - " E: slapd: subprocess post-installation script returned 
> error exit status 1 "
> Did you tried Breezy Badger with LDAP please help if you know the solution.
> 
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> 
> Thanks & regards
> 
> Ashwani Jain
> Systems Administrator
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