Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 737680
Cannot export any database
Last modified: 2011-11-07 16:57:23 EST
Description of problem: I typically export my LDAP database using the 389 console program. With the latest version of 389 I no longer can get a file to export. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Client: $ rpm -qa | grep ^389 | sort 389-admin-1.1.23-1.fc15.x86_64 389-adminutil-1.1.14-1.fc15.x86_64 389-console-1.1.7-1.fc15.noarch 389-ds-base-1.2.9.9-1.fc15.x86_64 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.9.9-1.fc15.x86_64 389-ds-console-1.2.6-1.fc15.noarch Server: $ rpm -qa | grep ^389 | sort 389-admin-1.1.23-1.fc14.x86_64 389-admin-console-1.1.8-1.fc14.noarch 389-admin-console-doc-1.1.8-1.fc14.noarch 389-adminutil-1.1.14-1.fc14.x86_64 389-console-1.1.7-1.fc14.noarch 389-ds-1.2.2-1.fc14.noarch 389-ds-base-1.2.9.9-1.fc14.x86_64 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.9.9-1.fc14.x86_64 389-ds-console-1.2.6-1.fc14.noarch 389-ds-console-doc-1.2.6-1.fc14.noarch 389-dsgw-1.1.7-2.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 389-console 2. Connect to 389 Admin server 3. Open Directory Server console 4. Click on Export Databases task. 5. Select output file. Any path. (local file system, not NFS) 6. Click OK. Actual results: Nothing happens. Expected results: Creation of file and exported data.
Are you running SELinux in enforcing mode? The SELinux policy will only allow ns-slapd to write the LDIF file to a location that is properly labelled as dirsrv_var_lib_t. It is intended that you use the /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-<instance>/ldif directory for exports. If the problem is not related to SELinux, it would be good to see if there are any errors in your DS errors log when you attempt to export.
Nathan, please re-read my bug report. I am using the console on a remote workstation. Not on the ldap server. I am not using a remote X session. Yes, the server is in enforcing mode. Disabling SELinux does not make a difference. It appears that a java exception is thrown when I press OK on the Export Databases window. I will attach it. Please note: This worked great several months ago when I made my last backup. My LDAP server is at least 3 years old now and I have never had this problem before.
Created attachment 522816 [details] java exception output during export Exception is thrown when I press "Yes" on the warning window that is presented when I try to export a database on a remote workstation.
I believe that this is a bug in java. In particular, it looks to be the same as bug 730015, which has the same exception. Try updating your java-1.6.0-openjdk package on the systym that you are running Console on.
Using the latest java package (from October 18th) does indeed fix this issue. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730015 ***