From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: I'm running openldap-2.0.11-13 on RH7.1, partially upgraded to RH7.2. The database contains a couple of thousand entries, used for login autentication and email routing. One day, some email bounced, and further investigation revealed that ldap searches failed with some filters. I.e. (but not specific to) (&(objectClass=*)(uid=joe)) The same query had worked perfectly before. Also, choosing another uid sometimes returned results. Searching for only uid=joe also returned results. Anyway, by using slapcat/slapadd, the indexes were regenerated, and the same query works OK. This has now happened twice in a month. Since regenerating the indexes solves the problem, I guess they become corrupted somehow. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Actual Results: specific queries failed, seems related to the search filter Expected Results: the query should succeed. Additional info: I think this is a nasty bug because it happens unpredictably and does not affect all records. I.e. there is no way of verifying if the indexes are corrupt, until some user reports that his account does not work as it should. This gentleman seems to have the same problem: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200111/msg00593.html
This sounds like 60916; see my comments there.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.