[Freeipa-users] Lost dse.ldif

[Rich Megginson]

On 08/16/2012 11:46 AM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> On 08/15/2012 05:13 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 08/15/2012 03:58 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>>> After a restart of the system I received the following errors:
>>>
>>> Starting dirsrv:
>>>      FOO-COM...[15/Aug/2012:21:48:26 +0000] startup - The default
>>> password storage scheme SSHA could not be read or was not found in the
>>> file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-FOO-COM/dse.ldif. It is mandatory.
>>>
>>>      PKI-IPA...[15/Aug/2012:21:48:26 +0000] startup - The default
>>> password storage scheme SSHA could not be read or was not found in the
>>> file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif. It is mandatory.
>>>
>>>    *** Warning: 2 instance(s) failed to start
>>> Failed to read data from Directory Service: Unknown error when
>>> retrieving list of services from LDAP: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>>
>>>
>>> Turns out the the dse.ldif files were both empty, I copied from the
>>> backup files, restarted, and everything worked fine. However I am
>>> wondering how a situation like this can come about?
>> Me too.  Did you have a power failure?  kill -9 the directory server?
>>
>>> -Erinn
>>>
>>>
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> Hmm no, not directly at least. I suppose it is possible that init didn't
> want to wait for it to shut down, and eventually killed it as  last
> resort. I think that is the default behaviour of init, or well upstart I
> guess. It does seem an odd way to deal with a kill though, nuke the
> config file.

I did not mean to imply that it is the intentional behavior of the 
directory server to nuke the config file in response to a kill -9.  It 
is most certainly not.  I'm just trying to figure out what caused this 
so we can attempt to reproduce and fix the issue.

>
> -Erinn
>