On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:40:25PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: > John Oliver wrote: > >One of the projects on my plate is to have a working backup of an > >existing fedora-ds server. I installed fedora-ds under CentOS 5.2 and > >copied over the files that result from ns-slapd db2archive from the > >existing server to the new machine. > > > >First off, I know nothing about LDAP or fedora-ds in particular :-) > > > >After looking at the existing server and what I had after installing on > >the new server, I decided that running /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl was > >probably necessary. I went through, answering the questions as best I > >could (and figuring that the answers would be overwritten when I > >restored the backup). I got this: > > > >[08/07/10:10:18:52] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers? > >[08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info yes > >[08/07/10:10:18:56] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . . > >[08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'unix-services2' > >was suc > >cessfully created. > >[08/07/10:10:18:59] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory > >server . > > . . > >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Error: failed to open an LDAP > >connection to > >host 'unix-services2.my.domain.com.com' port '389' as user > >'cn=Directory Ma > >nager'. Error: unknown. > >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration > >directory > > server > >[08/07/10:10:22:08] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . . > >Log file is '/tmp/setupVSpvCl.log > > > > > >Yes, that's two ".com"s No idea why. > > > Check /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf, and check > that against what you typed in as your hostname and what DNS resolves it to. All are correct. /etc/hosts has the correct FQDN as well as hostname. /etc/resolv.conf is pointed to two working DNS servers. And /etc/nsswitch.conf has "hosts: files dns" Is there a way to tell it to remove the problematic stuff and try to set up again? > >So, I stop the dirsrv process and try: > > > >[root at localhost ~]# ns-slapd archive2db -D > >/etc/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2 -a > >/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in > >[10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot > >configured > >[10/Jul/2008:11:05:39 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file > >set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but > >doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the > >server reading the backup set. error=53 (Invalid request descriptor) > > > Don't use ns-slapd archive2db directly - use the scripts in > /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance (db2bak, bak2db, etc.) instead. [root at unix-services2 ~]# /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/bak2db /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in/ [10/Jul/2008:14:56:40 -0700] - ERROR: target server has no NetscapeRoot configured [10/Jul/2008:14:56:40 -0700] - archive2db: Failed to read backup file set. Either the directory specified doesn't exist, or it exists but doesn't contain a valid backup set, or file permissions prevent the server reading the backup set. error=53 (Invalid request descriptor) [root at unix-services2 ~]# ls /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-unix-services2/in/ DBVERSION dse_instance.ldif NetscapeRoot dse_index.ldif log.0000000076 userRoot -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * ***********************************************************************
