[Kolab-devel] 3.0 on Debian Wheezy: setup-kolab failing because of not running 389

[Johannes Graumann]

Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My wheezy/3.0 odyssey now has led me to the error reported as the end of
> the 'setup-kolab -d 9' output below:
>> ldap.SERVER_DOWN: {'desc': "Can't contact LDAP server"}
> 
> Indeed, the installation log from aptitude also contains this:
>> Setting up 389-ds-base (1.2.11.7+nmu1-5) ...
>> adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/dirsrv' does not belong to
>> the user you are currently creating.
>> [info] no dirsrv instances configured so not starting 389 DS.
> 
> and 'service dirsvr start' reproduces the "no instance configured" bit ...
> 
> It looks like setup-kolab needs to have 389 running, which won't start ...
> any pointers on how to overcome this obstacle?
> 

Running '/usr/sbin/setup-ds' is bringing me full circle to my earlier 
attempts on CentOS, where the lxc-container based installation (wheezy also 
runs in lxc) would also produce the last statement seen in 
/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-kolab/errors
>         389-Directory/1.2.11.7 B2012.250.1648
>         kolab.<MYDOMAIN>.org:389 (/etc/dirsrv/slapd-kolab)
> 
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:06 +0000] - WARNING: Import is running with nsslapd-db-
private-import-mem on; No other process is allowed to access the database
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:06 +0000] - check_and_set_import_cache: pagesize: 4096, 
pages: 1007173, procpages: 48653
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:06 +0000] - Import allocates 1611476KB import cache.
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:06 +0000] - import userRoot: Beginning import job...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:06 +0000] - import userRoot: Index buffering enabled 
with bucket size 100
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:07 +0000] - import userRoot: Processing file 
"/tmp/ldifbCMGzg.ldif"
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:07 +0000] - import userRoot: Finished scanning file 
"/tmp/ldifbCMGzg.ldif" (9 entries)
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:07 +0000] - import userRoot: Workers finished; cleaning 
up...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Workers cleaned up.
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Cleaning up producer 
thread...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Indexing complete.  Post-
processing...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Generating numSubordinates 
complete.
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Flushing caches...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Closing files...
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - All database threads now stopped
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:08 +0000] - import userRoot: Import complete.  
Processed 9 entries in 2 seconds. (4.50 entries/sec)
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:09 +0000] - 389-Directory/1.2.11.7 B2012.250.1648 
starting up
> [24/Sep/2012:12:32:09 +0000] - Failed to create semaphore for stats file 
(/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-kolab.stats). Error 38.(Function not implemented)
> 

If I now only remembered how that was fixed ...

Sincerely, Joh