During db2ldif, I get these errors: [01/Dec/2005:12:54:49 +0000] - add value for type revinfo failed: duplicate value [01/Dec/2005:15:20:08 +0000] - add value for type revokedby failed: duplicate value ... [02/Dec/2005:01:18:23 +0000] - Processed 1245000 entries. [02/Dec/2005:01:18:24 +0000] - add value for type uniquemember failed: duplicate value [02/Dec/2005:01:18:28 +0000] - Processed 1246000 entries. (this may have been addressed in a new version of directory server - I was seeing these message in DS 4.12) The problem is that it is very difficult to determine the entry that is causing the problem. I would like to see the DN in each case.
The error message is issued when adding an entry with multiple same valued attribute or adding an attribute to an entry that already has the attribute value. I'm curious what kind of operation was under way at that time... (please note that db2ldif never modifies entries) The error message had been improved as follows since DS6.2: add value "testuser" to attribute type "mail" in entry "cn=Test User, dc=redhat, dc=com" failed: value exists
There was a bug in 7.1: 164843: deleting subtyped attribute value problem. Identical attribute type, value pairs were allowed to be in an entry. > Mail:xyz > Mail:xyz This bug was fixed since 7.1 sp1: A client can provide multiple attributes with the same attribute type and value, only if those attributes are language sub-types This means that the following is allowed: attrA: valueA attrA;lang-en: valueA So, there is no chance to reproduce the problem. But as noted in Comment #1, the corresponding error message prints out the dn value.