[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#764225: Bug#764225: slapd: fails to flush the cache if the system is shut down

[Ryan Tandy]

On 14-10-07 03:14 PM, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> Debian Edu uses GOsa² to manage user accounts, systems and groups.
> Adding a system via GOsa² to the (BDB) LDAP database succeeds, using
> ldapvi one can see the entries in LDAP. Rebooting the system just
> afterwards results in loss of the added data. Same happens if a user
> password is set via GOsa². The user password isn't valid after a server
> reboot.

Thanks for the info. I'll install Debian Edu and try it. I assume 
"rebooting the system" means the server running slapd, and not the 
system that was just added to the directory, right?

> For testing I switched from systemd to sysvinit: same effect, same
> workarounds succeed to keep newly added data. One difference, though:
> under sysvinit there is no proper slapd stop during shutdown.

I don't experience this, either. Another thing to check once I have 
Debian Edu installed.