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

Sat Nov 15 16:20:44 UTC 2008

Hi Chris,

I am sorry that I forgot few setps. These have to be performed especially to
install after an unsuccessful attempt.

1. uninstall fedora-ds
    #yum remove fedora-ds
2. remove the following directories.
  # rm -r /etc/dirsrv
 #rm -r /etc/sysconfig/dirsrv
 #rm -r /var/lock/dirsrv
 #rm -r /var/lib/dirsrv

Then follow the steps I had already mentioned to complete your installation.

Hope you will get a clean installation.

Prabhat

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Waltham
<cwaltham at bowdoin.edu>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...
>
>
> 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
> > 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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