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

Fri Nov 14 23:47:53 UTC 2008

Hi Prabhat,

On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Prabhat Ranjan Pradhan wrote:

> 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 Pieter de Rijk . 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.

Thanks for the note! I'm using VMware ESX so I'm taking snapshots to  
make troubleshooting easier.

I didn't realize SELinux was still enabled, so I disabled it. Then I  
followed the rest of your instructions, but I still had problems:

Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]:
Creating directory server . . .
Your new DS instance 'ldap' was successfully created.
Creating the configuration directory server . . .
The suffix 'o=NetscapeRoot' already exists.  Config entry DN  
'cn="o=NetscapeRoot",cn=mapping tree,cn=config'.

That's using fedora-ds as both user and group. Curiously, if I do a  
chmod/chown and set /var/run/dirsrv to to nobody:nobody (and then  
choose the "nobody" user in setup-ds-admin.pl), I get exactly the same  
problem...

Chris

>
>
>
> 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 Pieter de Rijk's  
> work. at http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/article/244/Fedora-directory-server
>
> Prabhat
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Christopher Waltham <cwaltham at bowdoin.edu 
> > wrote:
> 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 at 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 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 :-\
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Chris
>
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