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 > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users 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
