[Fedora-directory-users] Search by "uid" attribute returns duplicate results

[Richard Megginson]

Kevin M. Myer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I migrated a Netscape Directory Server 4.16 installation to Fedora 
> Directory Server over the weekend.  It went very smoothly, but I now 
> have a puzzling problem.  I have two servers setup in multimaster 
> replication mode.  On the one server, for one subtree only, if I 
> search via the 'uid' attribute, each search returns two identical 
> entries.  On the other server, if I search via the 'uid' attribute, I 
> get one entry.  If I search on anything but the 'uid' attribute (say, 
> for instance 'mail'), I get one result from both servers.
>
> The server that returns duplicate results for the 'uid' searches was 
> running in a test mode prior to my migration.  However, I wiped the 
> database/subtree that had our organization accounts located in it 
> prior to migrating.  My initial suspicion is that I have a messed up 
> index somewhere but I don't see how I would ever have been able to 
> import duplicate sets of entries anyway, since we are using 'uid' as 
> our RDN value. 

Sounds like a messed up index i.e. when you wiped the database/subtree, 
it didn't wipe the uid.db4 index file.   However, if you initialized the 
database again by importing an LDIF file (e.g. by ldif2db, not 
ldapmodify -a), it should have wiped out the old index as well.

> Further, if I export the data for that subtree, there are only one set 
> of entries for each account.

Right, because there is only 1 real entry, it's just that there are two 
different uid values in the index pointing to your 1 real entry.

>
> Thoughts on what might be occuring?
>
> Kevin
>
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