[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#757550: slapd: can't be reconfigured twice (backup path exists)

[Ryan Tandy]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.4.23-7.2
Severity: minor
Control: found -1 2.4.39-1

Hi Alessandro,

On 30/01/13 04:00 AM, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Same problem here,
>
> In my case dpkg-reconfigure worked yesterday but today ends with:
>
> Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd.
>    Moving old database directory to /var/backups:
>
>    Backup path /var/backups/unknown-2.4.23-7.2.ldapdb exists. Giving up...
>
> And no change is applied. I had to remove /var/backups/unknown... and after
> that it worked as exected. Note that even after a completete
> "remove --purge" dpkg-reconfigure was stuck.

I don't believe this is the same bug as the one you replied to, but I 
agree that this behaviour is not ideal. In fact the script includes code 
to generate a unique backup path using the current date and time, but 
it's not used because dpkg-reconfigure passes the previously configured 
version which gets used instead. I'm turning this into a new bug report 
to track that. Thanks for reporting it!

thanks,
Ryan