[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#487211: Bug#487211: slapd: upgrade from 2.3.35 fails looking for ldif

[Giuseppe Sacco]

Il giorno dom, 31/08/2008 alle 11.08 -0700, Steve Langasek ha scritto:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:09:19PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
[...]
> > I found the very same bug today on updating a machine from etch to
> > lenny. The upgrade procedure didn't worked correctly, so aptitude
> > stopped and I had to use "apt-get -f install" and "dpkg --configure
> > --pending" a few times.
> 
> Ok, can *you* show us the log output from the initial upgrade, which is the
> information I'm missing to try to understand what happened here?

Unfortunately I didn't keep any information about the initial problem.

> > Currently I am stuck at this point: old slapd has been removed, ldif was
> > not created, I cannot reinstall the old slapd since I cannot downgrade
> > libldap to libldap-2.3-0. The new version won't find any ldif and will
> > not correctly get configured.
> 
> > I cannot downgrade libldap since removing the new version will remove a
> > lot of packages I need:
> 
> > sgi:~# LC_ALL=C apt-get remove libldap-2.4-2
> 
> Why did you not simply run "apt-get install libldap-2.3-0"?  These are
> different library SONAMEs, the packages don't conflict.

libldap-2.3-0 depends on libldap2 that conflict with libldap-2.4-2.

> > I think the bug I found is in preinst: if the dump does not work (in my
> > case it doesn't work because a library is missing) then it should fails,
> > while it keep going, trying to upgrade, and failing because of missing
> > LDIF file.
> 
> Please show us the log output.  The preinst script runs with set -e, and
> there is code to return a failure if any of the database dumps fail.

You are right, I just read the code and I have nothing to suggest about
it :-(

Bye,
Giuseppe