A bug in Sleepycat´s Berkeley DB (version 2.3.16 up to 2.6.4 beta), was detected, that caused failure during opening of database files when running a threaded slapd on a linux box, kernel version 2.0.35, gcc 2.7.2.1, linux threads via libpthreads.so.1.60.4. THE BUG OCCURS ONLY WHEN SLAPD IS RUN WITH THREADS ENABLED AND MAY ONLY OCCUR ON THE PLATFORM SPECIFIED. Apply the supported patch at the root directory of Sleepycat´s code. Since the bug was reported to Sleepycat, it may not appear in DB versions, later than 2.6.4 beta. Jan 7 1999, /KSp (ksp@openldap.org)