On Mar 3, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Agnello George wrote:

Hi

I had upgraed my opneldap rpm frm 2.3.27 to 2.4.11 with ehelp of the followng link http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/

I had then rebooted my machine and now whne i am starting ldap

[root@system-test40 ldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap start Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery. bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered. ch_calloc of 1 elems of 480000004 bytes failed slaptest: ../../../servers/slapd/ch_malloc.c:107: ch_calloc: Assertion `0' failed.

Hi, I haven't seen this before. What steps did you take to do the upgrade? Is this on centos 4 or centos 5? I think it's probably more appropriate to follow-up off list as this isn't a package shipped by centos but something I packaged myself. Please email me directly.

Thanks, Jeff

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Agnello George wrote:

Hi

I had upgraed my opneldap rpm frm 2.3.27 to 2.4.11 with ehelp of the followng link http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/

I had then rebooted my machine and now whne i am starting ldap

[root@system-test40 ldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap start Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery. bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered. ch_calloc of 1 elems of 480000004 bytes failed slaptest: ../../../servers/slapd/ch_malloc.c:107: ch_calloc: Assertion `0' failed.

i tried to do some recovery as mentioned in vairous archives :

cd /var/lib/ldap slapd_db_recover -v

I think this should be ``slapd_db_recover -h $PWD''

The fact that it's saying that it is skipping read-only either means that the /ver/lib/ldap directory is on a read-only file system, or perhaps slapd_db_recover requires the ``-h'' option to really do it's work.

I think that slapd_db_recover is a version of the Sleepycat Berkeley database (bdb) db_recover routine, specific to the version of bdb on which openldap-server is built. The bdb is some of the worst looking spaghetti code I have seen in over 40 years of programming work (look at the #if statements in the perl or python bdb routines to get an idea of how ugly it is with dependencies on both major and minor releases).

As a last resort, ``rm /var/lib/ldap/*'' will clear all the openldap data files allowing it to restart so you can rebuild its data from scratch.

Bill