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OUD 11g/12c: OUD Schema File Corruption Leads to Error Message; "The string value <ATTRIBUTE NAME> is not a valid value for the "attribute" property" while starting (Doc ID 2732578.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 15, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Unified Directory - Version 11.1.1.5.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

While starting the OUD directory instance getting below error


ERROR:

category=CORE severity=NOTICE msgID=458891 msg=The Directory Server has sent an alert notification generated by class org.opends.server.core.DirectoryServer (alert type org.opends.server.DirectoryServerShutdown, alert ID 458893): The Directory Server has started the shutdown process. The shutdown was initiated by an instance of class org.opends.server.core.DirectoryServer and the reason provided for the shutdown was An error occurred while trying to start the Directory Server: An error occurred while trying to initialize a workflow element from class org.opends.server.workflowelement.localbackend.DBLocalBackendWorkflowElement with the information in configuration entry cn=<BASE DN>,cn=Workflow elements,cn=config: org.opends.server.types.InitializationException: An error occurred while trying to initialize a backend loaded from class org.opends.server.backends.jeb.BackendImpl with the information in configuration entry entry cn=<BASE DN>,cn=Workflow elements,cn=config: An error occurred while trying to decode the managed object configuration entry ds-cfg-attribute=<ATTRIBUTE NAME>,cn=Index,cn=<BASE DN>,cn=Workflow elements,cn=config: The Local DB Index could not be decoded due to the following reason: The string value <ATTRIBUTE NAME> is not a valid value for the "attribute" property, which must have the following syntax: OID (ServerManagementContext.java:844 ServerManagementContext.java:779 ServerManagementContext.java:472 ServerManagedObject.java:499 DBLocalBackendWorkflowElementCfgDefn.java:3488 EntryContainer.java:809 RootContainer.java:356 RootContainer.java:404 RootContainer.java:321 BackendImpl.java:2138 BackendImpl.java:419 LocalBackendWorkflowElement.java:504 LocalBackendWorkflowElement.java:398 DBLocalBackendWorkflowElement.java:91 NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2 NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62 DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43 Method.java:498 WorkflowElementConfigManager

 

Cause

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