Bug#377812: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#377812: slapd won't start at all

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.2.23-8
> Severity: grave
> 
> 
> There's no way I can fire up slapd on the main server of our company. It
> used to run fine but today, when trying to launch it it just crashes.
> Attached is a strace. There's no *pid file hanging around AFAICT:
> 
Probably you have corruption in the database is it possible to install 
db4.2-util ? And then restart slapd (/etc/init.d/slapd restart)

If this doesn't work, can you please attach the output of the following 
command:
slapd -d 64

> piano:/home/eric# ls -l /var/run/slapd/
> total 0
> 
> 
> I'm totally stuck.
> 

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12
> Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> 
> Versions of packages slapd depends on:
> ii  coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2            The GNU core utilities
> ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
> ii  fileutils             5.2.1-2            The GNU file management utilities 
> ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libdb4.2              4.2.52-18          Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
> ii  libiodbc2             3.52.2-3           iODBC Driver Manager
> ii  libldap-2.2-7         2.2.23-8           OpenLDAP libraries
> ii  libltdl3              1.5.6-6            A system independent dlopen wrappe
> ii  libperl5.8            5.8.4-8sarge4      Shared Perl library
> ii  libsasl2              2.1.19-1.5sarge1   Authentication abstraction library
> ii  libslp1               1.0.11a-2          OpenSLP libraries
> ii  libssl0.9.7           0.9.7e-3sarge1     SSL shared libraries
> ii  libwrap0              7.6.dbs-8          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
> ii  perl [libmime-base64- 5.8.4-8sarge4      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
> ii  psmisc                21.5-1             Utilities that use the proc filesy
> 
> -- debconf information:
>   slapd/password_mismatch:
>   slapd/fix_directory: true
>   slapd/invalid_config: true
> * shared/organization: b612arquitectura
>   slapd/upgrade_slapcat_failure:
>   slapd/upgrade_slapadd_failure:
> * slapd/backend: BDB
> * slapd/dump_database: when needed
> * slapd/allow_ldap_v2: false
> * slapd/no_configuration: false
>   slapd/migrate_ldbm_to_bdb: false
> * slapd/move_old_database: true
>   slapd/suffix_change: false
>   slapd/slave_databases_require_updateref:
> * slapd/dump_database_destdir: /var/backups/slapd-VERSION
>   slapd/autoconf_modules: true
> * slapd/purge_database: false
> * slapd/domain: b612arquitectura.com