Re: [Fedora-directory-users] openldap ldapdelete command output - "Critical extension is unavailable"

[Chun Tat David Chu]

Thanks for the info.

- dc

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Pierangelo Masarati <ando(a)sys-net.it&gt; wrote:

>  Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I am not sure if this should belong to the openldap mailing list or
>  here,
>  > but I will try here first since I'm using Fedora DS.
>  >
>  > I have "openldap-clients.i386 version 2.3.27-8" binary package
>  installed,
>  > and using it to talk to Fedora-DS 1.0.2.
>  >
>  > I use ldapmodify to import data into the ldap server.
>  > The command I use is
>  > ldapmodify -h <hostname> -p <port> -D "cn=Directory Manager"
> -w <pw> -f
>  > ./data.ldif -x
>  > And the data looks like this
>  > ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  > ou=test11,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  > ou=test12,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  > ou=test13,ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  >
>  > I then use ldapdelete to recursively delete all data.
>  > The command I use is
>  > ldapdelete -h <hostname> -p <port> -D "cn=Directory Manager"
> -w <pw> -f
>  > ./delete.ldif -x -r -v
>  > And the delete.ldif looks like this
>  > ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  >
>  > When I ran the ldapdelete command, it prints out this
>  > deleting entry "ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com"
>  > deleting children of: ou=test1,dc=sandbox,dc=com
>  > ldap_search: Critical extension is unavailable (12)
>  >
>  > The deletion did succeeded, but I just couldn't figure out why it prints
>  out
>  > "Critical extension is unavailable".
>  >
>  > This only happen when I start using openldap-client 2.3.27-8.  It didn't
>  > happen when I use openldap-clients-2.2.13-3.
>  >
>  > Any idea why it prints out "Critical extension is unavailable"?
>
>  OpenLDAP's ldapdelete was modified to be able to remove a subentry
>  related to replication that was used at some point within syncrepl.
>  However, that code erroneously assumed that the database being deleted
>  always supported subentries, which wasn't true even for OpenLDAP itself.
>   It was fixed as ITS#5293 <http://www.openldap.org/its?findid=5293> in
>  2.4.8, but it hasn't been fixed in the 2.3 series.
>
>  p.
>
>
>
>  Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
>  OpenLDAP Core Team
>
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