Hi Chris and all, I too struggled for the same problem for almost 4 months. I googled several times to find any solution. At last I discovered a link Posted by <a href="http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/authors/1-Pieter-de-Rijk">Pieter de Rijk</a> . I must say thanks to this gentleman who did a splendid job to pinpoint the error. getting hint from this link what I did is: 1. disabled SELinux 2. created a user (and default group) fedora-ds 3. installed fedora-ds using yum. 4. changed the ownership of /var/run/dirsrv to fedora-ds # chwon -R fedora-ds:fedora-ds /var/run/dirsrv 5. started installation with setup-ds-admin.pl. 6. entered fedora-ds as user and group name when prompted by the installer.. 7. Hurray!!! my installation was successfull. I had repeated this procedure several times on vmware virtual machines runing fedora9 and fedora8. May I bring this issue to the notice of development team that the file permission of /var/run/dirsrv is an issue to be looked into. The authentic reason for this can be fond in Mr <a href="http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/authors/1-Pieter-de-Rijk">Pieter de Rijk</a>'s work. at <a href="http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/article/244/Fedora-directory-server">http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/article/244/Fedora-directory-server</a> Prabhat <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Christopher Waltham <<a href="mailto:cwaltham@bowdoin.edu">cwaltham@bowdoin.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm using RHEL5.2 (i386) and installing RPMs from the FDS repository that's mentioned on the FDS wiki. But I'm having trouble configuring FDS 1.1.3 due to errors that I believe are related to permissions on /var/run/dirsrv. Before installing DS, here are the permission on /var/run/dirsrv: [root@falls ~]# ls -ald /var/run/dirsrv drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 09:24 /var/run/dirsrv When finishing the end of setup-ds-admin.pl, I see these messages: Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]: Creating directory server . . . Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems Possible timeout starting server: timeout=1226673415 now=1226673416 Could not start the directory server using command '/usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-falls/start-slapd'. The last line from the error log was '[14/Nov/2008:09:26:55 -0500] - Fedora-Directory/1.1.3 B2008.269.157 starting up '. Error: Unknown error 256 Error: Could not create directory server instance 'falls'. Exiting . . . Log file is '/tmp/setupblsNWZ.log' There is nothing else of relevance in either /tmp/setupblsNWZ.log or /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-falls/errors If I try and start the directory server after the installation failed, I get this error: [root@falls ~]# /etc/init.d/dirsrv start Starting dirsrv: falls... [FAILED] *** Warning: 1 instance(s) failed to start If I manually chmod & chown the /var/run/dirsrv directory, it will start: [root@falls ~]# chmod 770 /var/run/dirsrv && chown nobody:nobody /var/run/dirsrv [root@falls ~]# /etc/init.d/dirsrv start Starting dirsrv: falls... [ OK ] However, because the setup-ds-admin.pl process never completed, the admin server hasn't been configured (and I don't want to have to do that by hand). Note that I am using nobody:nobody in the FDS installer when asked who I want to run the services as. When I manually ( chmod 770 /var/run/dirsrv && chown nobody:nobody /var/run/dirsrv ) *before* I run setup-ds-admin.pl I get this error: [08/11/14:09:00:33] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers? [08/11/14:09:00:34] - [Setup] Info yes [08/11/14:09:00:34] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . . [08/11/14:09:00:36] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'ldap' was successfully created. [08/11/14:09:00:36] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory server . . . [08/11/14:09:00:36] - [Setup] Fatal The suffix 'o=NetscapeRoot' already exists. Config entry DN 'cn="o=NetscapeRoot",cn=mapping tree,cn=config'. [08/11/14:09:00:36] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration directory server [08/11/14:09:00:36] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . . Any thoughts? This is getting pretty frustrating :-\ Thanks, Chris -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users</a> </blockquote></div>