Re: [389-users] db2ldif vs ldapmodify: turn up debugging of db2ldif?

> On May 19, 2014, at 4:48 PM, Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Could you send out an entry placed at "ending line 5457262 of file /var/tmp/students_fixed.ldif" to the list?
> Probably. It's k-1student data so always a sensitive topic. I'll work on getting approval.
>
> Our student records are ~70 or so attributes, many of them custom so I wouldn't expect the list to troubleshoot problems with our schema/data. I was able to resolve several "violates attribute syntax" errors but adding the entries with ldapmodify which showed where the problem was—so far either empty attributes or data that doesn't match the RFC.
>
> I can, of course, work through it attribute by attribute but I'm surprised have to do that when usually the server logs the problem verbosely.
What does this config param value?
ldapserver ... -D <Directory_Manager> -w <Password> -b "cn=config" -s
base nsslapd-syntaxlogging

If "off", could you try the import with "on"?

Do you get any extra info in the error log?
>
> thanks,
>
> -morgan
>
>
>>
>> Morgan Jones wrote:
>>> I am working on a move from CentOS Directory (8.2.8) on CentOS 5 to 389-ds 1.2.11 on CentOS 6. I'm using a combination of the CentOS repositories and epel as suggested here.
>>>
>>> I'm finding ldif2db rejects entries while if I add them via ldapmodify they go in with no errors. This is a problem as db2ldif does not give sufficient debugging to identify the problem. Below are examples. Is there a way to get more debugging out of ldif2db that I am missing? Perhaps an error log level I'm missing? Has anyone else seen this behavior?
>>>
>>> I'm importing into a database other than userRoot if that makes a difference.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> -morgan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [root@devldapm03 ~]# /usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-devldapm03/ldif2db -n studentRoot -i /var/tmp/students_fixed.ldif
>>> importing data ...
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:48 -0400] - WARNING: Import is running with nsslapd-db-private-import-mem on; No other process is allowed to access the database
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:48 -0400] - check_and_set_import_cache: pagesize: 4096, pages: 2015405, procpages: 52243
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:48 -0400] - Import allocates 3224648KB import cache.
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:49 -0400] - import studentRoot: Beginning import job...
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:49 -0400] - import studentRoot: Index buffering enabled with bucket size 100
>>> [19/May/2014:15:53:49 -0400] - import studentRoot: Processing file "/var/tmp/students_fixed.ldif"
>>> ...
>>> [19/May/2014:15:55:04 -0400] - import studentRoot: WARNING: skipping entry "uid=xxxx,ou=students,dc=domain,dc=org" which violates attribute syntax, ending line 5457262 of file "/var/tmp/students_fixed.ldif"
>>> ...
>>> #
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> # ldapmodify -x -a -h devldapm03.domain.net -D cn=directory\ manager -w pass
>>> <paste entry>
>>>
>>> adding new entry "uid=xxxx,ou=students,dc=domain,dc=org"
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