On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 08:49 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> We've just had a huge scare. We reboot our main LDAP server (CentOS DS
> 8.1 on newly upgraded CentOS 5.4) and it dirsrv failed to start.
> dse.ldif was completely empty. Thankfully, I had a near-line backup. I
> restored it and restarted and we seem to be OK. What would cause such a
> problem? Thanks - John
>
Anything in the errors log? Anything in the syslog?
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Very little. It has a complaint that it was not shutdown cleanly. I
suppose it is possible the guest hung on the way down and the VM host
killed it rudely when the host itself needed to reboot. Thanks - John
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