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 > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20081115/b8c230a3/attachment.html
