<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>That was a good suggestion, Brian. I had switched off selinux as per the various install docs for kolab that I'd seen. Your suggestion was a good idea though, so I checked to see if it was being re-enabled behind my back. But no
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<div>As I was learning about kolab I saw a number of people had problems installing kolab on CentOS. When this problem with /dev/shm permissions happens, then setup-kolab fails with a log message about dirsrv and stats, but this is a manifestation of a semaphore problem (unfortunately I don't have a copy of that error message lying around now). Somewhere on the kolab site, I saw that this problem was to do with /dev/shm, and so I compared a broken CentOS install with a working OpenSuse install and figured it was the sticky bit.</div>
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<div>Looking back through the archives for the past few months, I see there are a number of people who IMO are suffering from this problem. Aside from this, kolab's installation is really pretty smooth.</div>
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<div>It's possible that this CentOS anomaly only arises with an installation running inside a Xen VM.</div>
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From: Brian Shaw <bshaw@vsvinc.com><br>
To: Joe Bloggs <coolstuck@aol.com><br>
Cc: users <users@lists.kolab.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 2:42 pm<br>
Subject: re: dirsrv does not start<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Are you running SELinux? That can cause strange things to happen.
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