Mathieu, On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mathieu Parent <math.par...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > When I attempt to upgrade a Kolab server that has been in production for > > several years, > > Upgrading from which version? (kolab was not in lenny). > > This server runs a constantly updated version of testing. Kolab was initially installed probably two years ago. > The problem comes from IMPPREFS. Storing Horde prefs in LDAP is > deprecated by the Kolab project since 2.2.1 (see > https://issues.kolab.org/issue3567). > You should remove all those *Prefs attributes before the update. You > can also re-add the Horde schema in the slapd.conf (and template). > The recommended way is to remove all prefs from LDAP. Users will need > to set those again. > There is a script for this in ยง6 of > http://hg.kolab.org/server/file/5f73a1437a1d/1st.README (you should > adapt it to native packages). > > Thanks for these instructions. This was the missing piece of information I wasn't able to find by myself. I followed the instructions and removed all of the Horde information. When attempting to upgrade I now receive a new error that I can't seem to figure out. r...@mail:/etc/ldap# apt-get install slapd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: slapd 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1,586kB of archives. After this operation, 45.1kB disk space will be freed. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 162158 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace slapd 2.4.17-2.1 (using .../slapd_2.4.23-6_amd64.deb) ... Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd. Dumping to /var/backups/slapd-2.4.17-2.1: - directory dc=stoutner,dc=org... slapcat: Symbol `ldap_int_global_options' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking str2entry: invalid value for attributeType objectClass #0 (syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.38) root_dse_read_file: could not parse entry (file="/etc/kolab/rootDSE.ldif" line=3) olcRootDSE: value #0: <olcRootDSE> could not read file /etc/kolab/rootDSE.ldif config error processing cn=config: <olcRootDSE> could not read file slapcat: bad configuration directory! failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/slapd_2.4.23-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.conf in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.23-6... done. Starting OpenLDAP: slapd. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/slapd_2.4.23-6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The contents of /etc/kolab/rootDSE.ldif is simply: dn: objectClass: kolab Note that there is no line 3. I found one reference to this error relating to an OpenSUSE installation, but I'm not sure how it applies to Debian. http://www.kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-users/2009-May/009964.html Soren
