Bug 213167

Summary:	Should /etc/rc.sysinit delete /var/lib/ldap//__db.?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	openldap	Assignee:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	4.4	CC:	fenlason, jplans, notting, setup, srevivo
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2007-0739	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2006-10-31 01:10:35 UTC

We just had a problem, where slapd did not start up properly after machine was
rebooted. It just kept waiting forever in futex call (according to strace).
Deleting /var/lib/ldap/*/__db.* solved the problem.

I am wondering - should may be /etc/rc.sysinit delete /var/lib/ldap/*/__db.* the
same way it currently deletes /var/lib/rpm/__db*?

P.S. Potentially related - bug 195920.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-31 02:03:35 UTC

slapd has its own initscript; ergo this seems more appropriate to do it there?

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2006-10-31 04:34:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> slapd has its own initscript; ergo this seems more appropriate to do it there?

When slapd is being started, there is no way to know for sure whether something
else is currently accessing the DB. I might be wrong, but my guess is that this
is exactly the reason why it is done in rc.sysinit for the rpm DB.

To be honest, I have no idea whether this would be the right thing to do for
slapd, may be there is a reason why RPM DB is special... But there definitely
needs to be something (and bug 195920 suggests that this something may be to
have the ldap startup script to do a DB recovery when necessary).

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-19 08:15:19 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 16:04:14 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0739.html