[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#419560: closed by Matthijs Möhlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> (Re: Upgrade problems.)
Ola Lundqvist
opal at debian.org
Fri Apr 23 05:18:45 UTC 2010
It is probably safe to close this one now.
// Ola
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> #419560: Upgrade problems.
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> From: Matthijs Möhlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl>
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> Hi,
>
> Since some version slapd is doing the recovery itself when a unclean
> shutdown is discovered so I think it's good to close this report.
>
> The other issues are not reproducible anymore and Sarge is gone for a
> long time now.
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> Regards,
>
> Matthijs Mohlmann
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> From: Ola Lundqvist <ola at opalsys.net>
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> Subject: Upgrade problems.
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> Package: slapd
> Severity: normal
> Version: 2.3.30-5
>
> Hi
>
> I know that this is not a very good bugreport as I did the upgrade
> yesterday and I write this report from today. However I think it
> could be good to know that there are problems while upgrading.
>
> I started with a sarge system and upgraded to etch. I do not know
> exactly know which other programs I upgrade at the same time but
> I do not think it was that many, as I selectively upgraded a few
> and slapd was one of the services in the middle.
>
> This is what I remember:
> 1) I get information that the new user that slapd will run as is
> openldap.
> 2) On upgrade it can not start slapd as the user do not exist and
> the upgrade of that package exit.
> 3) The upgrade continue, and now the user is created it chowns
> a number of files and do convert from old data to the new.
> 4) But the start of slapd do not work well and the upgrade
> of the package terminates.
> 5) All other packages are now upgraded but slapd have problem.
> 6) I try again but slapd have problem and as it aborts
> with problem the upgrade is not working.
> 7) The problem seem to be that the backup of the old data files
> exist and therefore it aborts. So move away that directory
> and try again. I had fiddled around with the startup parameters
> of slapd at the same time so it can restart properly. I do not
> remember anymore what the reason whas that slapd did not start.
> Non existing ipv6 support maybe, I do not remember.
> 8) Now the upgrade go though.
> 9) I reset the parameters to the values I want and now the
> slapd process did not start.
> 10) I now find out that the ldap data directory contain files with
> root.root permission, and that is the reason why it do not start.
> 11) I chown all those files and whee I have a working slapd.
>
> So my conclusion is that the upgrade path is not perfect from sarge
> to etch.
>
> I think the main problem is that I have to manually remove the
> data backup directory. I think it should exit silently and not with
> an error.
>
> The first problem is probably because the -g openldap -u openldap is
> triggered before the user has been created. I do not really know
> how to avoid that.
>
> However you are probably better to determine what the real problem is.
>
> I assume that you can reproduce this way:
> * Install sarge version of slapd
> * Remove the openldap user and group.
> * Upgrade slapd.
>
> Regards,
>
> // Ola
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