[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#598361: slapd: slapcat gives "unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery" after squeeze upgrade

[Walton, Bryan K]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:58 +0200, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:

> Do you before you backup, shutdown the slapd process ?
> 
> /etc/init.d/slapd stop
> slapcat ...
> /etc/init.d/slapd start
> 
> If you don't, then this is probably the reason for this error.

Hi Matthijs,

Thanks for the reply.  You are correct.  If I shutdown slapd first, no
error is generated.  I can start doing this.  However, I didn't think
this was necessary.  From the slapcat man page:

"For some backend types, your slapd(8) should not be running (at least,
not in read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the
database. It is always safe to run slapcat  with the slapd-bdb(5),
slapd-hdb(5), and slapd-null(5) backends."

Is this no longer accurate?

-Bryan