nscd is crashing
Robin Mordasiewicz
robin at bullseye.tv
Tue Aug 2 20:38:10 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>> I am using fedora core 4 x86_64 and this mornign nscd is crashing with
>> the following error.
>
> There are definitely issues with the ldap module. If I'd have the time
> this would be the first to be rewritten since it causes no end of problems.
>
> These problems are increased because of the persistent cache.. If a
> crash happens at the wrong time the cache is inconsistent. We currently
> have no checks for this and therefore nscd might crash right away again.
>
> So, remove the cache files in /var/db/nscd/ and restart. We'll have
> something to do this automatically (or at least ignore broken files) in
> future.
woo-hoo, thanks. Deleting the cache and restarting worked.
I will add this to a maintenance routine.
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