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

[Chun Tat David Chu]

Thanks for the info.

- dc

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Pierangelo Masarati <ando at sys-net.it> wrote:

> 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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>
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