kolab 3 on "Linux vServer" (provider netcup GmbH)

[Johannes Graumann]

Thomas Jensch wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> since quite some time now I am trying to participate in the
> beta-testing, but installation always crashes when trying to start the
> dirsrv-service during kolab-setup. I am using the .rpm packages with
> Centos as distribution.
> The vServer in question is hosted by netcup GmbH / Karlsruhe / Germany
> and they are running the vServers with "Linux vServer" virtualization.
> Now i got my hands on another vServer, running on kvm, and the
> installation succeeded (although i was still unable to send and recieve
> mail :/ ). Well, this led me to the guess, "Linux vServer" has something
> to do with the crash during install/setup. Now I do have a couple of
> questions:
> Does somebody has a netcup vServer and is able to run kolab 3?
> Is it indeed a problem with "Linux vServer"?
> Should I ask the company to fix $something? What?
> Is it a Layer8 problem? (Basically i just followed the documentation for
> rhel/centos)
> Any other ideas? (I could provide the crash reports as well, of course)
> 
> mfg
> Thomas Jensch

Maybe you are being bitten by this problem? I'm cyting from the community 
installation guide ...

> 1.6. LXC Containers
> LXC containers ("chroots on steroids") need /dev/shm/ mounted read/write 
for user accounts.
> The permissions on /dev/shm/ need to be as follows:
> 
> # ls -ld /dev/shm/
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root        40 2012-11-20 20:34 shm
> 
> To make sure the permissions are correct even after a reboot, make sure 
/etc/fstab contains a line similar to the following:
> 
> none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0

Sincerely, Joh