On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Matthew Hardin wrote: > >>Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> > >>(...) > >> > >[...] > >>I digged a bit in the mailing list, and found that OpenLDAP with bdb > >>backend needs a special startup script to recover from such situations. > >> > >>Too bad it isn't mentioned, even short and briefly, in OpenLDAP Admin > >>Guide. > > > >It's not mentioned because it's not needed. In OpenLDAP 2.3 startup scripts > >should not attempt to recover the database. > > What do you mean: not needed? > > Because admin took care of everything, and the server will recover > intelligently from all failures? > > Although it sounds great, lots of posts on this group prove quite the > contrary - there are problems with recovery with bdb backends, and for > lots of people it takes a couple of crashes to get a good setup.
You mentioned you were using 2.3.6, right? I'm sure there have been a lot of fixes up to version 2.3.24, which is the current one. You might want to give that one a shot.
