[Fedora-directory-users] slapd crash on replicate attempt

[Richard Megginson]

Justin Crawford wrote:
>>> One of the slapd processes just crashed again, and the logs on the 
>>> second server show only the same replication error.  I take 
>>>       
>> it to mean 
>>     
>>> the replication can't continue, because the slapd process 
>>>       
>> on the other 
>>     
>>> server has crashed.
>>>  
>>> Anyway, today is the first time in 5 months that either of these 
>>> servers has had any issue whatsoever.
>>>       
>> Something must have changed.  Even something that may appear at first 
>> glance to be innocuous.
>>     
>
> Agreed.  The servers themselves were not patched immediately prior to
> the change; they did get some patches in the week before, but nothing
> that appears to have a direct connection.
>
> We did implement a new authenticating client application during the
> previous week.  But I keep thinking that no client should be able to
> cause a slapd server crash (at least not without some evidence of
> intense load); therefore, a change to client applications does not
> strike me as a likely culprit.
>   

>   
>> Are you using VLV (browsing index in the console)?
>>     
>
> Yes, on a few subtrees, but these tend to be created on the spot by
> administrators, and not managed strictly (should they be?).  I suppose
> one of those could've been created on a subtree at any time, but I don't
> believe one was created in the days immediately prior to the crash.  Why
> do you ask?
>   
We've seen problems with VLV before.
> FYI, we rebooted the host machines last night and restared slapd with
> debug 1.  Neither slapd process crashed today.
>   
Please let us know if you can reproduce the crash.  Running with debug 1 
should help immensly, if you can afford the slowdown - running in debug 
mode can really slow down production machines.  
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting

However, we do have a tool available that would allow you to run with 
full debugging in a production environment.  It buffers the log output 
into a circular buffer of the last N lines, and you tell it how many N 
is (e.g. 10,000).  However, the server may perform well enough even with 
debug 1, in which case you probably don't need it.
> Justin
>
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