[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#497869: Bug#497869: upgrade from 2.3.39-1: attributeType userCertificate #0: needs '; binary' transfer

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:17 PM -0700 Jack Bates 
<ms419 at freezone.co.uk> wrote:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.10-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Am seeing the following error trying to upgrade from slapd 2.3.39-1:
>
> [...]
> etting up slapd (2.4.10-3) ...
>   Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.conf in /var/backups/slapd-2.3.39-1... done.
>   Upgrading BDB 'checkpoint' options... .
>   Moving old database directories to /var/backups:
>   Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.3.39-1:
>   - directory dc=lat... failed.
>
> Loading the database from the LDIF dump failed with the following
> error while running slapadd:
>     /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 83: <replogfile> keyword is obsolete
> (ignored)     str2entry: attributeType userCertificate #0: needs
> ';binary' transfer as per syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.8
> slapadd: could not parse entry (line=42)

Can you provide the problematic entry?  But it sounds like there's an 
illegal set of data in one of the attributes (i.e., binary data that's 
missing ;binary).

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
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