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

[Prabhat Ranjan Pradhan]

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.


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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