[Fedora-directory-users] setup-ds-admin.pl issue?

[Thomas Loran]

Jerome Yanga wrote:
> Fedora Directory Server 1.1.2 seems to have a broken setup-ds-admin.pl.
> 
> Is anybody else getting the same error below?  I have tried Express,
> Typical and Custom setup types and all of them give me this error.  I
> have even rebuilt the server and started from scratch.
> 
> The console gives me the following messages...
> 
> "Creating directory server . . .
> Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems
> Possible timeout starting server: timeout=1222110628 now=1222110629
> Could not start the directory server using command
> '/usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-basis/start-slapd'.  The last line from the error
> log was '[22/Sep/2008:12:00:29 -0700] - Fedora-Directory/1.1.2
> B2008.248.1448 starting up
> '.  Error: Unknown error 256
> Error: Could not create directory server instance 'instance_name'.
> Exiting . . ."
> 
> The setup log shows the following...
> 
> "[08/09/22:12:10:29] - [Setup] Info Could not start the directory server
> using command '/usr/lib/dirs
> rv/slapd-basis/start-slapd'.  The last line from the error log was
> '[22/Sep/2008:12:00:29 -0700] - F
> edora-Directory/1.1.2 B2008.248.1448 starting up
> '.  Error: Unknown error 256
> [08/09/22:12:10:29] - [Setup] Fatal Error: Could not create directory
> server instance 'instance_name'.
> [08/09/22:12:10:29] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . ."
> 
> FYI, I followed the same procedure and setup answers with Fedora
> Directory Server 1.1.1 a few weeks ago and it worked.
> 
> Help.
> 
> Regards,
> Jerome 
> 
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Jermoe,

I had the same issue yesterday and found that the owner on 
/var/run/dirsrv were set to root.  I changed it to "nobody"  the default 
for FDS, and was able to install just fine.

I found this bug which might be helpful.

  Bug 430368 -  Running setup-ds.pl on Fedora 8 fails: Server failed to 
start !!! / Failed to open stats file

Tom