[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#628237: slapd: installation fails: slap_sasl_init: auxprop add plugin failed

[Dan White]

On 22/06/11 14:39 -0400, Patricio Rojo wrote:
>Hi Dan,
>>Does an upgrade also resolve the trouble for you? If not:
>
>No, it was because of upgrading I had the problem.  Downgrading was 
>the only solution I found.  Maybe this bug should be linked to 
>libsasl2 packages?  Except this downgrade, I'm keeping an up-to-date 
>wheezy... Currently, I have the following versions:
>
>slapd 2.4.25-1+b1
>libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-8
>libsasl2-modules 2.1.23.dfsg1-8
>
>>
>>Do you have any additional log entries in /var/log/auth.log?
>
>The problem started as I tried to backup with slapcat. I got:
>
>Jun 22 12:30:35 wasabi slapcat: auxpropfunc error version mismatch 
>with plug-in

I suspect that the error is being produced due to a version mismatch
between the libsasl glue library and the internal (to openldap) slapd
auxprop plugin.

 From a quick glance, these two patches might be at play:

openldap-2.4.25/debian/patches/do-not-second-guess-sonames
cyrus-sasl2-2.1.24~rc1.dfsg1+cvs2011-05-23/debian/patches/0001_versioned_symbols.diff

>Then, I tried a restart of /etc/init.d/slapd, which failed. Then, 
>until the fixing downgrade, I got a lot of the following on my 
>auth.log (replacing my true cn by foobar):
>
>Jun 22 12:30:45 wasabi nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
>Jun 22 12:30:45 wasabi nscd: nss_ldap: could not connect to any LDAP 
>server as cn=foo,dc=bar - Can't contact LDAP server
>Jun 22 12:30:45 wasabi nscd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server 
>ldap://localhost/: Can't contact LDAP server
>
>
>>
>>Have you customized the sasl-auxprops/olcSaslAuxprops configuration 
>>on your
>>server?
>nop, I haven't touch sasl configuration. In particular, my /etc 
>doesn't have any file with *uxprops* string on it.
>
>>
>>Also, what contents, if any, do you have in /etc/ldap/sasl2/slapd.conf or
>>/usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf?
>the former is an empty directory, the latter file does not exist in 
>that dir.

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Dan White