Jon Jahren wrote: >Hi >I've been trying to get the directory server v1.0 working all day. >First my problem was that jre1.5 wasn't working right, it would just >hang with the splash screen telling me to log in, and no window to enter >username and password. I'd like to help troubleshoot it, but I do not >know what logs to look at and whatnot. This is on a system running a SMP >kernel, however, it didn't work in a regular kernel either. >That's my first question, where are the logs, or what debugging tools >could I use for this job? > > This is a window focus issue. Run startconsole with the "-xnologo" option. This will not display the splash screen, and you will see the login dialog that was hidden behind it. For troubleshooting Console, you can run it with the "-D" option. This will output debug messages to stdout. >Then there's this: >I replaced jre1.5 with j2re1.4 and it started "normally", which means >that I at least got to the login screen, but it gave me an error that >claimed the server hadn't started. And I had indeed ran ./setup/setup >and chosen what I thought to be correct values. >However, I had used the hostname that I regularly use, Embla, as a >hostname, and I had gotten this message when the script finished: >"Fatal Slapd The required field AdminDomain is not present in the >install info file. >ERROR: missing data from answer cache" > >I reran the script, and this time I didn't use Embla for a hostname. >That got me a bit further, because I was given these messages, that I >didn't get before: >"[slapd-localhost]: [03/Dec/2005:15:05:21 +0100] - slapd started. >Listening on All Interfaces port 389 for LDAP requests > >NMC_Status: 0 >NMC_Description: Success! The server has been started. > >Can't open /opt/fedora-ds/bin/slapd/admin/scripts/template-migrateTo4: >No such file or directory >Start Slapd Starting Slapd server reconfiguration. >Info Slapd No old nsperl references found" > >After I got that message, I was still getting no server running, after >running start-admin. >So I stopped it, using stop-admin and then stopped slapd with >stop-slapd, I started slapd and then start-admin, and now it works! I >can log in and everything. >Now to my question: Are these bugs that should be reported, or are they >merely user errors? And how can I set it to use my hostname Embla? > > You should make sure that both forward and reverse lookup work for this hostname. Also ensure that domainname returns the correcct domain name of your box. -NGK >Thanks in advance >Jon > >-- >Fedora-directory-users mailing list >Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3174 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20051203/e30e06aa/attachment.bin
