[Fedora-directory-users] "Server failed to start !!!" when installing FDS 1.1.3 in RHEL5.2
Rich Megginson
rmeggins at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 23:53:50 UTC 2008
Christopher Waltham wrote:
> 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
>> <http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/authors/1-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...
This looks like a different problem. This is what usually happens if
you run setup again without having first cleaned up everything from the
prior run. One problem with setup-ds-admin.pl is that you cannot simply
run it again - it will detect the previous configuration (however broken
it may be).
>
>
> 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
>> <http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/authors/1-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 <mailto: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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