severity 594711 wishlist retitle 594711 document how to do db format upgrade manually thanks
On Friday 03 September 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Then I don't think this should be RC. Downgrading to important, > > leaving it to the maintainers to close or handle as they wish. > > Right, and I don't know of a good way to handle this. We certainly > don't want to go back and re-upload openldap built against db4.7 > just to do this transition. > > Stefan, can you unpack the slapcat from testing's slapd package > onto your system, and try the upgrade again? Yes, downgrading to 2.4.17-2.1 and upgrading to 2.4.23-4 worked. Somehow I assumed that the upgrade process required a running slapd, but this is not the case. I still think that the info how to recover from such a problem should be in README.Debian, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org