ldap.ENCODING_ERROR when trying to use SimplePageResultsControl

[Michael Ströder]

Joel Heenan wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Comments inline:
> 
>> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Joel Heenan wrote:
>>
>>>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/ldap/controls.py", line
>> 78,
>>> in encodeControlValue
>>>
>>>     return _ldap.encode_page_control(size,cookie)
>>>
>>> ldap.ENCODING_ERROR
>> It seems you're running on a 64-bit platform. I did never test
>> python-ldap on such a system. Which version of python-ldap is it? Did
>> you compile it yourself? Which versions of OpenLDAP libs are used?
> 
> I am using 64-bit RPM's compiled by RedHat for RHEL5.2 . The 32-bit
> variants are installed I'll see if I can work out how to force it to
> use them.
> 
> Here are the versions involved, but be aware RedHat versions include
> backporting so it can be difficult to say exactly what is included:
> 
> openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3
> openldap-devel-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3
> python-ldap-2.2.0-2.1

These releases are old:
OpenLDAP 2.3.27 was released 2006-08-19
python-ldap 2.2.0 was released 2006-04-10

There have been numerous bug fixes to both packages since then. While I
don't have a 64-bit box myself there were several related fixes
contributed and tested by others. So I suggest to build recent releases
of both from source and test with that.

>>> Server is RHEL5.2
>> Hmm, isn't this quite old? I'd guess old versions of python-ldap and
>> OpenLDAP are shipped with this release.
> 
> Err RHEL5.2 is the latest stable I believe.

Whatever stable means to Red Hat for these particular packages. Sorry,
if you insist on using these ancient versions I have to point you to Red
Hat's support.

Ciao, Michael.