diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 711db93584..d7fe6ae829 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ OpenLDAP Change Log
 Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.2 Release Engineering
 	CVS Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_2
 	Fixed slapd lint
+	Fixed slapd li_nextid_file uninitialized bug
 	Fixed -lldap templates y2k bug (ITS#294)
 	Fixed ldbm db_appinit to use u_int32_t instead of int (ITS#295)
 
diff --git a/servers/slapd/back-ldbm/init.c b/servers/slapd/back-ldbm/init.c
index 62ef472ec6..36ae9daa8f 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/back-ldbm/init.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/back-ldbm/init.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ldbm_back_init(
 
 	/* default database directory */
 	li->li_directory = DEFAULT_DB_DIRECTORY;
+	li->li_nextid_file = DEFAULT_DB_DIRECTORY "/NEXTID";
 
 	/* always index dn, id2children, objectclass (used in some searches) */
 	argv[ 0 ] = "dn";