[Freeipa-users] Lost dse.ldif

[Erinn Looney-Triggs]

On 08/16/2012 11:18 AM, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 09:08 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 08/16/2012 11:46 AM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2012 05:13 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>> On 08/15/2012 03:58 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>>>>> After a restart of the system I received the following errors:
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting dirsrv:
>>>>>      FOO-COM...[15/Aug/2012:21:48:26 +0000] startup - The default
>>>>> password storage scheme SSHA could not be read or was not found in the
>>>>> file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-FOO-COM/dse.ldif. It is mandatory.
>>>>>
>>>>>      PKI-IPA...[15/Aug/2012:21:48:26 +0000] startup - The default
>>>>> password storage scheme SSHA could not be read or was not found in the
>>>>> file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-IPA/dse.ldif. It is mandatory.
>>>>>
>>>>>    *** Warning: 2 instance(s) failed to start
>>>>> Failed to read data from Directory Service: Unknown error when
>>>>> retrieving list of services from LDAP: [Errno 2] No such file or
>>>>> directory
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Turns out the the dse.ldif files were both empty, I copied from the
>>>>> backup files, restarted, and everything worked fine. However I am
>>>>> wondering how a situation like this can come about?
>>>> Me too.  Did you have a power failure?  kill -9 the directory server?
>>>>
>>>>> -Erinn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Hmm no, not directly at least. I suppose it is possible that init didn't
>>> want to wait for it to shut down, and eventually killed it as  last
>>> resort. I think that is the default behaviour of init, or well upstart I
>>> guess. It does seem an odd way to deal with a kill though, nuke the
>>> config file.
>>
>> I did not mean to imply that it is the intentional behavior of the
>> directory server to nuke the config file in response to a kill -9.  It
>> is most certainly not.  I'm just trying to figure out what caused this
>> so we can attempt to reproduce and fix the issue.
>>
> 
> I have also seen this, but it's been a long time ago now, perhaps in the
> 2.0 beta days or around that time. And I did have an issue with power
> cuts at that time.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Siggi
> 
> 

Power wasn't cut, the system was restarted and then had hardware issues
on restart, for which power had to be cut to the system. However during
that time of power loss the OS wasn't up. So not real sure what to
attribute this to, I wish I could you folks more data points on this,
but I am afraid it was one of those damn it it is broken gotta fix it to
get it working things, when investigation wasn't the highest priority.

-Erinn





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