[Bug 112631] Re: [apport] package slapd failed to install/upgrade:

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

Murray, 
While they both do involve a failure of the configuration process for the slapd package during an upgrade, I think the original bug report and your problem have separate root causes.

In particular, the problem discussed in the original bug report relates
to problems caused by invalid records that somehow crept into the LDAP
database (but which were in that database before the package upgrade was
started).

In your case, though, there's no problem with the data in the LDAP
database; instead you are getting errors caused by the fact that between
Edgy and Karmic the openldap packages switched from v4.2 to v4.7 of the
Berkeley Database libraries, and so the newly-install tools are refusing
to work with the existing database files. (The DB-library version change
is mentioned in the Debian changelog entry for openldap v2.4.15-1 .)

Anyway, I am running into this same problem when attempting to upgrade
from Hardy directly to Lucid.   Since that's an LTS-to-LTS upgrade, I
believe it's supposed to be a supported upgrade path, and so I opened a
bug report on that particular issue, bug #536958.  Your situation (Edgy
-> Karmic) is a little different, but if a workaround or fix is found
for that bug perhaps it will apply to your sitation as well....

Nathan

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[apport] package slapd failed to install/upgrade: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112631
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