On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:02:39PM -0000, Boris Sukhinin via FreeIPA-users 
wrote:
> > Would you mind having a look through the DS error and access logs on
> > the affected system, to see if there are any clues about why the VLV
> > index became inconsistent?
> 
> It seems there are no records of VLV-related errors in DS logs.
> 
> The only messages in error log that contain 'vlv' term are either 
> backup-related (dblayer_copyfile, dblayer_copy_directory) or about 
> building VLV index (ldbm_back_ldbm2index) that I initiated myself.
> 
> Didn't find any clues in access logs either, records look like regular
> LDAP queries to me:
> conn=130 op=11 SRCH base="ou=ca,ou=requests,o=ipaca" scope=1 
> filter="(requestState=*)" attrs=ALL
> conn=130 op=11 SORT requestId
> conn=130 op=11 VLV 5:0:0819990000 2:2 (0)
> conn=130 op=11 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=2 etime=0.0001728512
> 
> My only guess is that VLV index was damaged some time ago when BDB ran out 
> of file descriptors and panicked (which was caused by default value of 
> nsslapd-maxdescriptors=1024 in cn=config being too low for our setup):
> ERR - libdb - BDB2520 /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-LOCAL-DOMAIN/db/log.0000000242: 
> log file unreadable: Too many open files
> ERR - libdb - BDB0061 PANIC: Too many open files
> ERR - libdb - BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> ERR - idl_new_fetch - idl_new.c (1); server stopping as database recovery 
> needed.
> 
Boris, thank you for the info.  Adding Thierry (DS engineer) -
do you think it could be related?

Cheers,
Fraser

> I've restored domain database from another replica but didn't do anything 
> about
> CA database which probebly was a mistake.
> 
> It feels a little worrying that logs show no signs of inconsistent VLV because
> that means we're unable to monitor and fix the issue before it becomes a 
> problem 
> as it happened in our case.
> 
> > I also wrote a blog post about this scenario:
> > https://frasertweedale.github.io/blog-redhat/posts/2020-09-17-dogtag-vlv-...
> 
> That's a great post, thank you!
> 
> Regards,
> Boris
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