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

[Rich Megginson]

Christopher Waltham wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> That's what I thought -- and can't understand. :) This is a fresh 
> install of RHEL; I did a find / -name dirsrv and it came up with nada. 
> Zero. Zilch! I'm not sure what else to look for?
No dirsrv directories at all?  There should be some - try rpm -V 
fedora-ds-base - if that has problems, try yum reinstall fedora-ds-base
finally, try setup-ds-admin.pl -ddd to generate debug output - log file 
is in /tmp
>
>
> Chris
>
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