[pheitman]

For some reason edgy made the default shell (/bin/sh) point to dash instead of bash. Apparently they are not quite the same, which causes the ldap initialization to fail. Since I was installing this on a VMWare VM, I could get away with

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

then uninstalling zimbra and reinstalling it. Now the installation works fine after following this fine guide.

Peter