slapd 2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3 install fails on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

(That probably won't solve your problem, but in my opinion it's useful to be sure this isn't secondary to a package manager issue.)

OK, results from PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure ...

Step 1 - This is a headless server, no GUI, so I guessed that this step wanted me to edit sources.list and change occurrences of "us.archive.ubuntu.com" to "archive.ubuntu.com" ... hope that was a correct guess. (Seems to be the same set of IP addresses either way.)

Step 4 -
markjo@insrambackend:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS"

markjo@insrambackend:~$ uname -a
Linux insrambackend 2.6.32-28-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 22:34:08 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
[sudo] password for markjo:

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg [198B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg [198B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release [44.7kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release [57.2kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release [44.7kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages [134kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages [1386kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources [43.7kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages [61.4kB]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources [17.9kB]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages [1995B]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources [651B]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages [6208B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources [659kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources [3775B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages [5448kB]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources [3165kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages [180kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources [119kB]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages [443kB]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages [3240B]
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources [178kB]
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources [1443B]
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages [183kB]
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources [65.2kB]
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages [8427B]
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources [4369B]
Fetched 12.3MB in 9s (1352kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo dpkg --clear-avail

markjo@insrambackend:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

markjo@insrambackend:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=25165824 && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Step 6 - does not apply, as this is an install, not an upgrade/remove.

What happens if you run

sudo apt-get purge slapd; sudo apt-get install slapd

?

$ sudo apt-get purge slapd; sudo apt-get install slapd
[sudo] password for markjo:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  slapd*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 4,166kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 75074 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing slapd ...
Stopping OpenLDAP: slapd.
Purging configuration files for slapd ...
Removing slapd configuration... done
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  slapd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,554kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,166kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main slapd 2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3 [1,554kB]
Fetched 1,554kB in 1s (872kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package slapd.
(Reading database ... 74834 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking slapd (from .../slapd_2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up slapd (2.4.21-0ubuntu5.3) ...
  Creating initial slapd configuration... Loading the initial configuration from the ldif file (/usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif) failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    slapadd: could not parse entry (line=15)
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Looks to me like /var/lib/dpkg/info/slapd.postinst create_new_configuration() is running
        capture_diagnostics slapadd -F "${SLAPD_CONF}" \
                -b "cn=config" -l ${init_ldif} || failed=1
when it encounters the error.

Where the error message says (line=15) I assume it's referring to /usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif. When i looked at that file, I wasn't sure if slapdadd was counting comment lines or not, so I edited the file and removed all comment lines, so I had the following:

---- begin modified slapd.init.ldif ----
dn: cn=config
objectClass: olcGlobal
cn: config
olcPidFile: /var/run/slapd/slapd.pid
olcArgsFile: /var/run/slapd/slapd.args
olcLogLevel: none
olcToolThreads: 1

dn: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
objectClass: olcFrontendConfig
olcDatabase: {-1}frontend
olcSizeLimit: 500
olcAccess: {0}to * by dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth manage by * break
olcAccess: {1}to dn.base="" by * read
olcAccess: {2}to dn.base="cn=subschema" by * read

dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
olcDatabase: config
olcAccess: to * by dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth manage by * break

dn: cn=schema,cn=config
objectClass: olcSchemaConfig
cn: schema

include: file:///etc/ldap/schema/core.ldif
--- end modified slapd.init.ldif ----

Then I tried "apt-get install slapd" again and got the exact same output as before except:
slapadd: could not parse entry (line=8)

I'm not sure if this refers to the blank line between the first two LDAP entries, or to the first line of the second entry (dn: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config). Both of those seem to be perfectly valid (looking at examples around the net and the slapd-config man page).

In short, I don't see anything in /usr/share/slapd/slapd.init.ldif that would cause slapadd to stumble.

Even after "dpkg -P slapd", this remains:

root@insrambackend:~# ls -l /usr/local/sbin/slapadd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-12-02 13:05 /usr/local/sbin/slapadd -> ../libexec/slapd

root@insrambackend:~# ls -l /usr/local/libexec/slapd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1307724 2009-12-02 13:05 /usr/local/libexec/slapd

I did
# find / -xdev -name "*slap*" -ls
and found other symlinks to /usr/local/libexec/slapd, many slapd man pages, lots of files in /usr/local/src/openldap2.3.9, /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf, and files in /home/maskren/.cpan/build/perl-ldap-0.39 ... all dated 2009 or older.

So it looks like the problem may be an older install of slapd that did not get removed. I will attempt to clean that out before installing slapd again.

Also, I found I could install slapd successfully on another Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS server... something I should have tried sooner :(

The source of the old program is confirmed:
$ strings /usr/local/libexec/slapd | grep 2.3.9
@(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.3.9 (Dec 2 2009 12:39:11) $
        root@ractest:/usr/local/src/openldap2.3.9/openldap-2.3.9/servers/slapd

However "sudo make uninstall" in /usr/local/src/openldap2.3.9/openldap-2.3.9 results in
make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.

I also find /usr/local/src/sun_one/java_es_05Q4_directory on this server (Sun ONE Directory Server 5.x).

This server is looking messier every time I dig deeper, I'll just rebuild it from scratch.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks Eliah Kagan, that solved my question.

"sudo make install" should be run in the top-level build directory, which in this case appears to be /usr/local/src/openldap2.3.9 (not /usr/local/src/openldap2.3.9/openldap-2.3.9) ...though I cannot be sure exactly where you extracted the source archive. If you want more help with this, feel free to reopen the question.

That said, considering that you have a system whose history you don't know, you might well experience additional problems down the line (perhaps when it's in production use) due to other past configurations you're unaware of. Therefore, I think flattening and rebuilding is probably a good choice in this case.