[Info only, for the record] User deleted, awaiting cleanup... This solution applies only when using slave server(s)

[Christian Rößler]

Hallo everyone,

this here is another possible cause for the well-known message "User
deleted, awaiting cleanup". As someone I know of had the same problem, I
will just post the causation and solution here, so others may benefit too.

This happens mostly while doing testing. If a user is created and
deleted in short time, this will apply.

In that case a user entry will be written into the master server. If
this user gets deleted before there was time to propagate/replicate the
ldap entry to the slave server(s), the dreaded message "User deleted,
awaiting cleanup" will appear and stay.

To be sure this applies:
- do a ldapsearch for the user entry on the master server; take a look
to the kolabDeleteFlag entries.
- repeat the ldapsearch for the user entry on the slave server(s)
mentioned in the kolabDeleteFlag entries.
- if this ldapsearches turn up empty on one or more of the slave servers
delete the corresponding kolabDeleteFlag entries, but make sure you let
the kolabDeleteFlag entries pointing to slave servers where the user
entry got propagated to stay.

Voila - the message will vanish almost immediately.

I hope this is helpful for somebody...

Best regards,
Christian