[389-users] Instance startup schema issue

[Ted Fisher]

I have two new RH7 servers each running 389ds and each with a test ldap instance and a
test master.
I set up replication from our old ldap servers (iPlanet 5 on Solaris) to these new
instances so they keep up to date with everything until we are ready to switch the VIPs to
point to these new ones both both updates to the masters and queries to the ldap
instances.
Everything was working fine until I set up replication between the config directories on
these new servers (not sure if that was the cause, but timing is that the issue occurred
just after this).  When I went to restart one of the query directorsies it failed with
this logged:
dse_read_one_file - The entry cn=schema in file
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-ldaptest1/schema/99user.ldif (lineno: 1) is invalid, error code 20 (Type
or value exists) -
I thought it might have been caused by the replication of config.  So, I blew away one of
the directory instances then rebuilt it and configured consumer replication again.  From
the primary supplier I re-initialized it which succeeded.  But, when I tried a restart it
failed again with the same error.  The time stamp on 99user.ldif was the same as when the
total update started.

Any suggestions how I can find out what is getting messed up in the schema?  Do I need to
turn up more logging to try to get info more than what the unhelpful message above tells
me?

Thanks.

Ted F. Fisher
Server Administrator
Information Technology Services
Email:  [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>
Phone: [phone]
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