[389-users] dse.ldif empty!

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 08:49 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > We've just had a huge scare.  We reboot our main LDAP server (CentOS DS
> > 8.1 on newly upgraded CentOS 5.4) and it dirsrv failed to start.
> > dse.ldif was completely empty.  Thankfully, I had a near-line backup.  I
> > restored it and restarted and we seem to be OK.  What would cause such a
> > problem? Thanks - John
> >   
> Anything in the errors log?  Anything in the syslog?
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Very little.  It has a complaint that it was not shutdown cleanly.  I
suppose it is possible the guest hung on the way down and the VM host
killed it rudely when the host itself needed to reboot.  Thanks - John
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