[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#594711: slapd: Migration of DB format fails during upgrade

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

On Sep 3, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 17:34:37 +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> 
>> Package: slapd
>> Version: 2.4.23-4
>> Severity: grave
>> 
>> When upgrading from 2.4.23-2 to 2.4.23-4, I get a debconf message that
>> tells me that slapcat failed during upgrade. dpkg then aborts with a
>> failure.
>> 
>> Also, contrary to the debconf message, the database files are not moved
>> into /var/backup.
>> 
>> I am guessing that the problem could have to do with slapd not being
>> started on boot on my system.
>> 
>> #593550 has some info about how to resolve the problem, but I think this
>> information should be in slapd's README.Debian.
>> 
>> Here is the log from the attempted upgrade:
>> 
>> Preconfiguring packages ...
>> (Reading database ... 261556 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace slapd 2.4.23-2 (using .../slapd_2.4.23-4_i386.deb) ...
>> Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd.
>>  Dumping to /var/backups/slapd-2.4.23-2: 
>>  - directory dc=loglevel,dc=info... bdb(dc=loglevel,dc=info): Program version 4.8 doesn't match environment version 4.7
>> hdb_db_open: database "dc=loglevel,dc=info" cannot be opened, err -30971. Restore from backup!
>> backend_startup_one (type=hdb, suffix="dc=loglevel,dc=info"): bi_db_open failed! (-30971)
>> slap_startup failed
> 
> Could that be due to trying to do the dump with a version of slapcat
> (2.4.23-2) which already used db4.8, whereas the db was from 4.7?  In
> that case this was a transitional issue only affecting sid, I think?
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

Correct.

Regards,

Matthijs Möhlmann