Kolab and Kontact on Mandrake 10

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 18:35, Fausto Zorzi - NetiX s.r.l. wrote:
> During my attempts to configure Kontact with Kolab I evidently
> made something wrong with Cyrus and messed up the whole thing.
> I have then disinstalled and reinstalled the whole Kolab server, with
> all its dependencies, then ran again /usr/sbin/kolab_bootstrap -b.
> The configuration is much clearer now, but when I start the kolab-server
> service, after all the services give [OK], I receive this message:
>
> Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor
> _perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon () at /usr/sbin/kolab line
> 439.
>
> Can you please help me with this?

This typically happens when old openldap processes still hung
around  or /kolab was not completely deleted.
Try again and make sure both was done before installation.
(Note that you will loose your users of course, when removing /kolab)