Hi Andre - I did take a backup of the LDAP directory prior to "do- release-upgrade" (actually I had nightly backups running so I just grabbed a copy of the last one of those). That's what I was referring to when I stated "restore the old-version backup...". It's been a few months now but I vaguely recall that the upgrade procedure needs the state of the database prior to the (failed) upgrade in order to succeed after patching.
Hence, if my recollection is accurate, my procedure was: 1. Patch the slapd.postinst script 2. Restore the database to its state prior to the (failed) upgrade 3. Run "dpkg --configure -a" to cause the slapd postinst script to upgrade the database successfully -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003854 Title: Database upgrade/migration fails with nested db directories (lucid to precise) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openldap/+bug/1003854/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
