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

[Jamie Thompson]

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.

> Rather, in this case I think it's as robust as is possible given that your
> directory contents are such that openldap 2.4 will refuse to work with them.
> It's my opinion that the current behavior is not a bug, and that letting the
> admin fix up the results manually is the right thing to do.

I can see your point of view, but when I ran the upgrade it didn't roll back,
as the package installed, but the re-import didn't succeed, leaving me without
a functional directory, which effectively brought down all my services that
were dependant on it. I didn't cotton on to the fact it was the two bad
entries until after I had restored manually from the bdb backup. The error
message I provided was from my subsequent attempt to update.

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