[NTLUG:Discuss] Dangerous Newbie Question

[Jay Urish]

I would just upgrade to mandrake 8.2


At 08:11 AM 7/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm still a newbie but have amassed enough knowledge to be very dangerous.
>You'll be able to see this by my most recent problem.
>
>I was trying to get LDAP set up on my Mandrake 8.0 box. I was having
>difficulty doing this so I decided to upgrade OpenLDAP to the newest
>version. Upon doing the ./configure of the install process, it told me
>that my version of BDB was too old. So, I upgraded that.
>Once I did that, the ./configure told me that BDB was still too old.
>However, it was not.
>After some research, I took some of the file out of the new BDB directory
>and overwrote them into the directories where the old files of the same
>name were.
>
>At this point, OpenLDAP worked. But.... postfix when to hell. I got an
>error I could not resolve and I must assume that the BDB "upgrade" broke
>it.
>It said that private/local was sending a string data when it unexpectedly
>stopped. Then, postfix/master killed local with a signal 11. This repeated
>thousands of times. This was in the warnings log.
>When I issued mailq, I found that postfix was receiving mail fine, but
>could not route it... (my interpretation). It said that no mail transport
>provider was found. Each message said this. They would all just sit in the
>queue.
>
>I ended up doing a backup and reinstall of mandrake. (Good practice) I
>lost the battle because I need to keep my email running. I really hate
>doing that because I want to solve the problems rather than do the
>microsoft reinstall thing. It helps me learn this OS faster.
>
>Do you guys have any ideas of what I could have done to fix this? What
>diagnostics could I have run to get more info on the problem. Where am I
>not looking?
>
>In addition, I couldn't run any RPM functions. It would shoot me a
>segmentation fault every time and produced a core... which I don't know
>how to read. I would try to query the RPM database, seg fault.
>
>--
>Chris J Albertson
>alb at chrisalbertson.com
>http://www.chrisalbertson.com
>
>
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