Hi, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:26 PM +0200 Dieter Kluenter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> OpenLDAP-2.4.5beta >> SuSE-10.2 >> db-4.4.20 >> glibc-2.5.25 >> >> trying to run slapd an error occurs >> >> backend_startup_one: starting "o=avci,c=de" >> bdb_db_open: o=avci,c=de >> bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable >> backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed!(-1) >> slapd shutdown: initiated >> >> Now, what would be a stable alock package? > > I've generally hit this when something's occurred that alock can't > recover from. Usually removing the alock file and running db_recover > will allow slapd to start. You could relocate the alock file rather > than removing it, and provide it back via an ITS for analysis, I hear. > This may allow the underlying problem to get fixed. fixed it. It actually is specific to SuSE. :-( After a run of SuSEconfig all file and directory properties are changed to default values, thus the owner of slapd could not write to the database files anymore. I should have known this, as I ran quite often into this trap. -Dieter -- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://www.dkluenter.de GPG Key ID:8EF7B6C6
