Description of problem:

this is related to
Add support for recursively deleting subentries #4970
https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/4970

a customer has been trying to delete an entry but it has some conflict entries ( err 66 and "replication conflicts as children" )

concern is about a recent migration from ODSEE:
"In the previous DSEE environment they could delete an entry with these replication issues"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

probably RHDS-11.7 on RHEL-8.8 ( no sosreports but mention of 1.4.3.34 )

How reproducible:
on demand

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

[17/Dec/2023:14:23:17.331539318 +0200] conn=373395 op=146 RESULT err=66 tag=107 nentries=0 wtime=0.000060572 optime=0.265873223 etime=0.265926849
[17/Dec/2023:14:23:17.374193736 +0200] conn=373395 op=147 ABANDON targetop=NOTFOUND msgid=145

error log file:
[17/Dec/2023:14:23:17.069617086 +0200] - ERR - ldbm_back_delete - conn=373395 op=146 Deleting entry . . . has replication conflicts as children.

Expected results:

Additional info:

workaround: manual ldapdelete -r

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6509671
RHDS - How to delete a subtree that contains entries which have the LDAPSubEntry objetClass?