[Techtalk] sldapd upgrade, starts fine, but package manager thinks it is not configured

[Maria Mckinley]

Greetings,

I just upgraded my ldap server from Lenny to Squeeze, but slapd did not 
restart.

Starting OpenLDAP: slapd ESC[31mfailed!ESC[39;49m
invoke-rc.d: initscript slapd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slapd-dbg:
  slapd-dbg depends on slapd (= 2.4.23-7); however:
   Package slapd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing slapd-dbg (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

I managed to fix the problem with the slapd configuration. The 
TLSCipherSuite was originally set to this:

TLSCipherSuite TLS_DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLSCipherSuite TLS_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1

Which I had changed to get around a bug that happened if I set it to 
HIGH in the last version, but I digress. I changed the suite to NORMAL, 
and slapd starts up just fine now. But, the package manager still thinks 
it is not configured yet. What should I do? It is complaining about 
being unable to move stuff to backups, but I am a little afraid that if 
I get rid of stuff in this directory, it will move stuff and break my 
newly working slapd.

Errors were encountered while processing:
  slapd
  slapd-dbg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up slapd (2.4.23-7) ...
   Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-1+lenny2... 
done.
   Moving old database directories to /var/backups:

   Backup path /var/backups/dc=shadlen,dc=org-2.4.11-1+lenny2.ldapdb 
exists. Giving up...
dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slapd-dbg:
  slapd-dbg depends on slapd (= 2.4.23-7); however:
   Package slapd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing slapd-dbg (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  slapd
  slapd-dbg

thanks,
maria