Zimbra Server Service won't restart.

**apanian** · 12-09-2007, 07:59 AM

Release 4.5.9_GA_1454.MACOSXx86, Zimbra, Inc.
MACOSXx86

We are running Zimbra on an OSX server, and we were doing maintenance on the server (nothing to do with Zimbra, LDAP, or tomcat), and rebooted the server. The Zimbra service did not restart, and when I go to manually start it I am get the following message.

bulgerco1:~ zimbra$ zmcontrol start
Host home.Domain.com
Starting ldap...Done.
FAILED
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
/opt/zimbra/bin/ldap: line 55: kill: (8987) - No such process
Failed to start slapd. Attempting debug start to determine error.
daemon: getaddrinfo() failed: No address associated with nodename

Also, the DNS name was changed from Home.domain.com to Mail.Domain.com. Would changing the DNS on the DNS server effect the zmcontrol service to start?

Please help!

**phoenix** · 12-09-2007, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by apanian

Also, the DNS name was changed from Home.domain.com to Mail.Domain.com. Would changing the DNS on the DNS server effect the zmcontrol service to start?!

Yes, that would affect it. Zimbra (postfix) needs valid DNS A & MX records pointing to the server so it can find itself. Changing those records will stop any DNS lookup for the Domain Name you created the server with, please change them back to their original settings and restart Zimbra to see if that fixes the problem.

**apanian** · 12-09-2007, 08:57 AM

That was it, the internal DNS was reverted to what it was prior to the reboot and the services returned.

However, Now as I am logging into the admin console it seems to be hung at the "Loading" status message.