[Fedora-directory-users] "Server failed to start !!!" when installing FDS 1.1.3 in RHEL5.2

Fri Nov 14 16:41:19 UTC 2008

Christopher Waltham wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
>> Christopher Waltham wrote:
>>> Thanks for the reply, Rich:
>>>
>>> On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> [root at 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 at falls ~]# chmod 770 /var/run/dirsrv && chown nobody:nobody 
>>>>> /var/run/dirsrv
>>>>> [root at 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 :-\
>>>> Yes.  The first problem caused the second.  The first problem is 
>>>> the permissions on /var/run/dirsrv, which allowed you to get past 
>>>> "the point of no return" with setup.  That is, your system is 
>>>> already configured to the point that subsequent runs of setup think 
>>>> it has been set up correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Try running ds_removal first - you may have to use the -f argument 
>>>> to force removal.
>>>
>>> Ok, that's done.
>>>
>>>> Then, try this:
>>>> service dirsrv stop # may error if not running - that is ok
>>>> service dirsrv-admin stop # may error if not running - that is ok
>>>
>>> Done.
>>>
>>>> find /etc/dirsrv /usr/lib/dirsrv /usr/lib64/dirsrv /var -name slapd-\*
>>>
>>> [root at falls sbin]# find /etc/dirsrv /usr/lib/dirsrv 
>>> /usr/lib64/dirsrv /var -name slapd-\*
>>> /etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf
>>> /etc/dirsrv/slapd-falls.removed
>>> find: /usr/lib64: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> This is i386, so that looks fine.
>>>
>>>> If that list looks ok, do
>>>> rm -rf `find /etc/dirsrv /usr/lib/dirsrv /usr/lib64/dirsrv /var 
>>>> -name slapd-\*`
>>>
>>> Done...
>>>
>>>> Finally, rm everything in /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv EXCEPT 
>>>> admserv.conf httpd.conf console.conf nss.conf - do not remove these 
>>>> files or the directory
>>>
>>> Those were the only files in there, so no problem.
>>>
>>>> Then you should have a clean system to start over with
>>>
>>> Okay, so I can start again with the setup-ds-admin.pl script?
>> Yes.
>
> Hmm, no dice.
>
> Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]:
> Creating directory server . . .
> Could not copy file '/etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf' to 
> '/etc/dirsrv/slapd-ldap/slapd-collations.conf'.  Error: No such file 
> or directory
> Error: Could not create directory server instance 'ldap'.
> Exiting . . .
> Log file is '/tmp/setup8I0wbR.log'
>
> [root at falls config]# ls -al /etc/dirsrv/config/
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Nov 14 11:22 .
> drwxrwxr-x 7 root nobody 4096 Nov 14 11:31 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3595 Sep 24 21:58 certmap.conf
> [root at falls config]#
>
> I'm not sure where that file would have gone?
You removed it, unfortunately :-(  I neglected to tell you not to remove 
it :-(

For now, unless you need to support different languages, just
touch /etc/dirsrv/config/slapd-collations.conf
before running setup

You can get the real file here - 
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/ldapserver/ldap/schema/slapd-collations.conf?revision=1.6&root=dirsec&view=markup
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>>
>>> And, I don't mean to be rude, but has the root cause of the problem 
>>> been identified? :P I can easily replicate it...
>> The root cause is the bogus ownership/permissions on /var/run/dirsrv 
>> - the directory server user id (default: nobody) must be able to 
>> write to this directory.  We are working to fix this problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>
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