You don't have to import a 100k ldif - just set the default idlistscanlimit to something really low, so that a search of e.g. (objectclass=top) will hit the limit and be unindexed.

I stop the server, edit dse.ldif, and restart. There seems to be some sort of corruption happening to the inst->inst_attrs avl tree, when the server calls ldbm_instance_create_default_indexes() to add the default indexes to the instance. Before that function is called at startup, inst->inst_attrs looks ok. But sometime during that call, the nodes in the tree start to show some sort of corruption:

(gdb) p (struct attrinfo )inst->inst_attrs->avl_right->avl_right
$94 = {ai_type = 0x989780 "p\221\230", ai_indexmask = 1935764481,
ai_index_rules = 0x989540, ai_dblayer = 0x989860,
ai_dblayer_count = 9933184, ai_idl = 0x21,
ai_attrcrypt = 0x6e6f6870656c6574, ai_key_cmp_fn = 0x7265626d754e65,
ai_dup_cmp_fn = 0x97bf80, ai_substr_lens = 0x21, ai_sattr = {
a_type = 0x6e6f6870656c6574 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x6e6f6870656c6574>, a_present_values = {num = 1836404325, max = 7497058,

e.g. ai_type should be a string like "objectClass".

The root node looks ok, as well as its immediate children, this may explain why/how the acceptance tests are able to pass.

The problem is here:
{{{
int
ldbm_instance_index_config_enable_index(ldbm_instance inst, Slapi_Entry e)
{
char *index_name;
int rc;

rc=ldbm_index_parse_entry(inst, e, "from DSE add", &index_name);

}}}
The call to ldbm_index_parse_entry will actually replace the existing index, with the new one from e. This is bad.

Looks like the fix is that ldbm_instance_index_config_enable_index should not call ldbm_index_parse_entry but should just get the index using ainfo_get. The index should already exist. If not, then it should call ldbm_index_parse_entry to add it.

The problem is that, when the server restarts, and you have customized an index, and the customized index is also a default index (e.g. objectclass, sn, many more), when the server tries to add and enable any missing indexes, it will overwrite the existing config with the config from the default, wiping out any customizations made.

0001-Ticket-47831-server-restart-wipes-out-index-config-i.patch
0001-Ticket-47831-server-restart-wipes-out-index-config-i.patch

Ticket has been cloned to Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113605

Ticket has been cloned to Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113606

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Date: Wed Jun 25 16:49:50 2014 -0600
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Date: Wed Jun 25 16:49:50 2014 -0600
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Author: Rich Megginson rmeggins@redhat.com
Date: Wed Jun 25 16:49:50 2014 -0600

This needs to go into 1.2.11 branch and all later branches

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