Eric Ashley wrote: > Well after the host machine croaked, I finally got this running. > > Now, however, it's failing to start after I did an F43 system-upgrade, > with a chicken-and-egg problem of needing to convert from bdb to mdb. > However, dsctl coredumps when trying to convert the dblib and dsconf > obviously won't connect, since the dirsrv won't start because of the > database format. How can I get this conversion to work without a running > server?
I think the best way forward would be to get a stack trace of the crash and provide it to the 389 developers to diagnose what is going on. rob > > Thanks, > Eric > > -- > Secured with Tuta Mail: > https://tuta.com/free-email > > > Nov 5, 2025, 14:41 by [email protected]: > > Eric Ashley via FreeIPA-users wrote: > > Hello people, > > So on 5 Oct 2025, I attempted to upgrade my FreeIPA server from > 4.12.5-2-fc42 to 4.12.5-3-fc42. For some it didn’t save dse.ldif in > /etc/dirsrv/slapd-IPA-EXAMPLE-COM/. Looking in that directory, > there is > a dse.ldif.startOK that is close to the size of many of the > dse.ldif.ipa.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX also saved there. dse.ldif.bak and > dse.ldif.modified.out are both empty. > > Obviously, since dse.ldif is missing, IPA won’t start. Will my > copying > dse.ldif.startOK to dse.ldif work to get IPA back online so I > can then > do the upgrade? I think I accidentally rebooted the host machine > while > the VM was finishing updating or backing up. > > > Yes copying that should let 389-ds start. > > rob > > -- _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
