[Fedora-directory-users] openldap ldapdelete command output - "Critical extension is unavailable"

[Pierangelo Masarati]

Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this should belong to the openldap mailing list or here,
> but I will try here first since I'm using Fedora DS.
> 
> I have "openldap-clients.i386 version 2.3.27-8" binary package installed,
> and using it to talk to Fedora-DS 1.0.2.
> 
> I use ldapmodify to import data into the ldap server.
> The command I use is
> ldapmodify -h <hostname> -p <port> -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w <pw> -f
> ./data.ldif -x
> And the data looks like this
> ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> ou=test11,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> ou=test12,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> ou=test13,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> 
> I then use ldapdelete to recursively delete all data.
> The command I use is
> ldapdelete -h <hostname> -p <port> -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w <pw> -f
> ./delete.ldif -x -r -v
> And the delete.ldif looks like this
> ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> 
> When I ran the ldapdelete command, it prints out this
> deleting entry "ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com"
> deleting children of: ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
> ldap_search: Critical extension is unavailable (12)
> 
> The deletion did succeeded, but I just couldn't figure out why it prints out
> "Critical extension is unavailable".
> 
> This only happen when I start using openldap-client 2.3.27-8.  It didn't
> happen when I use openldap-clients-2.2.13-3.
> 
> Any idea why it prints out "Critical extension is unavailable"?

OpenLDAP's ldapdelete was modified to be able to remove a subentry 
related to replication that was used at some point within syncrepl. 
However, that code erroneously assumed that the database being deleted 
always supported subentries, which wasn't true even for OpenLDAP itself. 
  It was fixed as ITS#5293 <http://www.openldap.org/its?findid=5293> in 
2.4.8, but it hasn't been fixed in the 2.3 series.

p.



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