[Fedora-directory-users] FDS Crashing!

[Richard Megginson]

Nicholas Byrne wrote:
> I'm using 1.0.4-1 release. My configuration fairly basic using "one 
> way" windows sync (ref: 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/2006-December/msg00070.html). 
>
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> It's been working well until this morning for going on a month 
> (fortunately it's not live yet, but was planning to put it live this 
> weekend - not anymore!). I'm not sure what occurred exactly, a few 
> password changes and minor updates to a couple of attributes but since 
> a few hours ago any attempt to write to anything in the userRoot 
> database fails and slapd crashes. I've looked in the error and access 
> logs but it doesn't give much away - on restart i see:
>
> [18/Jan/2007:14:48:42 +0000] - Fedora-Directory/1.0.4 B2006.312.435 
> starting up
> [18/Jan/2007:14:48:42 +0000] - Detected Disorderly Shutdown last time 
> Directory Server was running, recovering database.
> [18/Jan/2007:14:48:43 +0000] - slapd started.  Listening on All 
> Interfaces port 389 for LDAP requests
> [18/Jan/2007:14:48:43 +0000] - Listening on All Interfaces port 636 
> for LDAPS requests
>
> What can do to get more info?
start-slapd -d 1
or
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting and use the 
TRACE debug level.
>
> Yesterday i did password change using ldappasswd and i found this 
> issue (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179723) 
> just now - my directory does have a password policy. Is this fixed in 
> 1.0.4?
Yes, it is supposed to be - but if you reproduced it with 1.0.4, then I 
guess not :-(

So, if I understand correctly - you used ldappasswd to change a user's 
password, and you have password policy enabled (global or local?), and 
you can crash the server.
>
> I have tried a restore from a week old backup (using bak2db) but that 
> didn't fix the problem so anyone got any idea whats going on and how i 
> might start fixing this - Help!?
>
> Thanks
> Nick
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