Bug 171272

Summary: ldap does not start after power failure
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexey Baj <alex>
Component: openldapAssignee: Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
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Fixed In Version: openldap-servers-2.3.30-2.fc6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Alexey Baj 2005-10-20 08:01:10 UTC
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Description of problem:
After power failure there is a high probability that ldap startup script would  
hang or would fail but report success. To make it start again one has to  
either recreate databases or run db_recover -h /var/lib/ldap, THEN run  
slaptest as user ldap.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openldap-servers-2.2.23-5

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start slapd   
2. press 'reset'   
3. boot computer again  
      

Actual Results:  boot process hangs on "Starting slapd"   
or  . 
"Starting slapd [ OK ]", but slapd is not running. 

Expected Results:  At very least, init script should not block booting, and report failure if 
slapd fails to start. 
 
Maybe good thing is to run db_recovery each time slapd starts. 

Additional info:

When one manually runs db_recover $PATH_TO_LDAP_DB, then /sbin/service ldap 
start, in $PATH_TO_LDAP_DB files __db.* will be created with root permissions, 
and slapd would still not run. Cause is slaptest in init script.

Comment 1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2005-10-20 08:06:14 UTC
*** Bug 171271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marek Greško 2006-01-18 18:38:29 UTC
Running slaptest as user ldap is not a solution, because it does not create
__db* files. These files with root permissions are created by slapd.

The problem persists also in openldap-servers-2.2.9-1.FC4.

Comment 3 Marek Greško 2006-01-18 19:12:39 UTC
Sorry. The problem is really in slaptest. I tried slaptest -u which did not
create the files, but without -u it did.

Comment 4 Christian Iseli 2007-01-20 00:24:19 UTC
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 5 Jan Safranek 2007-05-23 12:03:59 UTC
openldap-servers-2.3.30-2.fc6 has improved startup checks and stale locks should
not be problem anymore