On 13/11/2019 09:26, Brian Burch wrote:
On 7/11/19 6:35 pm, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
Hi Brian,
Hi yet again Emmanuel!
I'm really up the creek without a paddle (does that have a French
equivalent? I'm sure you will understand!)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=up%20a%20creek%20without%20a%20paddle
In french : "A poil dans la pampa" (aka "naked in the desert")
I won't give you too much painful history because I hope to make sense
of my re-testing once I understand what is going on.
Basically, I generated a case-sensitive ads-partition definition,
along with the appropriate ads-contextentry. When I tried ldapmodify
(add) for the new entry, it was rejected because one of its attributes
was required to be all-lower-case. (After all, dn's are
case-insensitive and so my legacy choice of case should be just "eye
candy")
DN aren't case insensitive ! A DN depends on each RDN it contains, and
each RDN may use a case sensitive AttributeType.
Next, after deciding to KISS, I re-generated an all-lowercase version,
but that failed and crashed the AM25 server! It would not restart and
still won't at this moment. The error message says there is a missing
index entry, but I innocently assumed I would be able to add those
later...
I am wondering whether it is actually worth fighting any more.
However, I now have a dead server BUT a lot of external mods I don't
want to recreate (systemd definitions and dependencies not part of the
deb's init.d script setup).
If I could successfully get back to a vanilla server which is
currently stopped (the deb starts it during installation!), I could
re-run my setup jobs repeatedly until I have something meaningful to
document.
I found this interesting blog post (was it you?):-
http://frenchhack.blogspot.com/2016/02/remove-partition-on-apacheds.html
What you can do is to start a fresh server, and add the partition into it.
OTOH, it's all about getting rid of the directories under the
partitions/XXX directory (see
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/advanced-ug/2.2-instance-layout.html).
If the configuration is correct, those partitions will be recreated at
startup.
I immediately realised this "solution" assumed one was using Studio to
delete the partition, but (of course) it would not work for me unless
I can start the server!!! (Catch 22)
I had some problems building the AM25 from source, so I was lazy in
using the deb. Therefore, I have just unpacked the deb offline and
looked at its contents. /var/lib/apacheds-2.0.0.AM25/default/ has an
unmigrated config.ldif file and an empty partitions directory, which
looks like a good starting place to me!
Do you think I can just replace the whole of
/var/lib/apacheds-2.0.0.AM25/default/ to get back to an initial
configuration?
Yes.
If yes, then I can go around my testing loop quickly, changing one
thing at a time, and arrive at a partition which works for me.
Also, it would be useful to put a "wipe and restart" procedure on the
wiki for others in the same catch 22 situation...
That's a good suggestion. Could you create a JIRA under
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DIR for that ?
Thanks !
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