[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#462667: Bug#462667: slapd: Upgrade fails as LDIF backup has incorrect names

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Jamie,

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:11:05PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:15:26AM +0000, Jamie Thompson wrote:
> > Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> Hi Jamie,
> >> So this is the behavior we would expect for a directory containing DNs that
> >> aren't below the indicated suffix.  I don't see that there's anything we
> >> could do to automatically fix up such directories that I would consider
> >> safe.

> > ...but I can't access said entries to delete them, as they aren't accessible
> > via any means I'm aware of. If you can suggest some way of removing them, I'd
> > be very grateful.

> - upgrade slapd
> - let the postinst fail
> - edit the ldif file under /var/backups/slapd-$oldver to remove the invalid
>   entries
> - re-run dpkg --configure -a

> That should do the job.

Did this suggested solution work for you?  I think this bug should be closed
out because I don't think there's anything more we can practically do for
this issue, but I'd like to be sure first that the above solves your
problem.

Cheers,
-- 
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