problems running on debian

I've gone ahead and built zimbra from the sources and installed it on my kubuntu/debian system. Unfortunately it's not working and I don't know nearly enough to understand why. The installation appeared to finish ok except that the user zimbra wasn't known to the system. After adding the user and group zimbra and changing all of the files and directories under /opt/zimbra to be owned by zimbra, the servers still won't start up. Running

su - zimbra -c bin/zmcontrol startup

produces the output:

Calling startup (localhost.localdomain)

perl bin/zmmon &

but then calling

su - zimbra -c bin/zmcontrol status

produces only

Calling GetServiceInfoRequest (localhost.localdomain)

Any ideas on what to do next?

Peter

Are the underlying items running? MySQL? slapd (OpenLdap)?

Anything in /opt/zimbra/log/zimbra.log?

In general if you didn't recompile the dependant programs locally you'll probally run into many path issues.

I've made *some* progress. First, I installed the mysql and slapd packages. Second (eventually) I rebooted since there was already a process holding port 7777 (the soap server port). Now I get messages in /var/log/zimbra.log (not /opt/zimbra/log/zimbra.log btw). zimbra.log now contains:

Oct 8 23:23:18 localhost postfix/master[8173]: daemon started -- version 2.2.4,
configuration /etc/postfix
Oct 8 23:24:44 localhost zimbramon[8946]: 8946:info: Starting services
Oct 8 23:24:48 localhost zimbramon[8946]: 8946:info: STARTING services
Oct 8 23:24:48 localhost zimbramon[8946]: 8946:info: Doing startup
Oct 8 23:24:48 localhost zimbramon[9018]: 9018:info: Zimbra Monitor startup: 90
18
Oct 8 23:24:49 localhost zimbramon[9018]: 9018:info: Process 27552 not found -
removing /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/FIFO/zm.pid
Oct 8 23:24:49 localhost zimbramon[9032]: 9032:info: Status monitor startup
Oct 8 23:24:49 localhost zimbramon[9033]: 9033:info: Creating soap server on po
rt 7777

However, when I do a zmcontrol status all I get is:

Calling GetServiceInfoRequest (localhost.localdomain)

RESPONSE: (Zimbra::Mon::serviceInfo)
host
ip 127.0.0.1
name localhost.localdomain

If I wasn't clear before I did build from the sources but I hadn't done anything with the mysql or slapd pieces. They have now been installed from the ubuntu repositories...

Thanks for the help so far. Anything else you can suggest I do to get it further? :)

Peter

Have you initialized the ldap and mysql databases? It doesn't look like we're detecting any services to run on this host.

If you have initialized them, did you create the server object in ldap (zmprov is your friend).