cannot start postfix

[paulororke]

Hi

I have had Zimbra running for year on an Ubuntu 8.04 box. Recently the SSL cert expired. I have followed a number of suggestions in this forum including running as root /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms and even re-running the installation from the original tarball I used when I set this up.

My system is using Release 6.0.6_GA_2330.UBUNTU8_64 UBUNTU8_64 FOSS edition.

I have attached the zimbra.log snippets from running : zimbra@mail:~$ zmcontrol start (zimbra.log.startup.txt) and the output of zimbra@mail:~$ zmcontrol status (zmcontrol.status.txt)

It looks like postfix is already running but when I issue a zimbra@mail:~$ zmcontrol stop then check there is no postfix process.

Can anyone suggest to me how to fix this?

regards

[firemike]

Hi Paul,

looking in your logfiles you can read, that postfix is already running ..

Jun 16 16:58:40 mail postfix/postfix-script[6717]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running

ZCS has an own postfixserver.
And this zimbra-postfix wont start, if there is another postfix installed and running.
So please check the following:

# apt-show-versions -r postfix

And if listed, then remove:

# apt-get install postfix-

[paulororke]

Thanks for that firemike,

root@mail:~# apt-show-versions -r postfix

returns nothing...

What is strange it that it was working for a year. I have not installed postfix outside of the ZCS installation. Could running the installer again have somehow caused this?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by paulororke

I have not installed postfix outside of the ZCS installation. Could running the installer again have somehow caused this?

Run the following command:

zmcontrol stop

When you've done that, check to see if there are any zimbra services (or postfix) still running and kill them if there is. When you've done that try starting zimbra again.

[paulororke]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had thought of that. In my original post I mentioned:

It looks like postfix is already running but when I issue a zimbra@mail:~$ zmcontrol stop then check there is no postfix process.

That's why I'm stuck...

[phoenix]

Are there any other Zimbra processes running after you stop Zimbra? Is there any other MTA running on port 25?

[paulororke]

Hi Pheonix,

zimbra@mail:~$ zmcontrol stop
Host mail.paulororke.net
        Stopping stats...Done.
        Stopping mta...Done.
        Stopping spell...Done.
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.

zimbra@mail:~$ netstat --listening
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp6       0      0 [::]:ssh                [::]:*                  LISTEN
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node   Path

root@mail:~# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0   4020   876 ?        Ss   Jun15   0:01 /sbin/init
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kthreadd]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   5:02 [migration/0]
root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:13 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   6:13 [migration/1]
root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:12 [ksoftirqd/1]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [watchdog/1]
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:11 [events/0]
root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:21 [events/1]
root        11  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [khelper]
root        44  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:17 [kblockd/0]
root        45  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:15 [kblockd/1]
root        48  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kacpid]
root        49  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kacpi_notify]
root       181  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kseriod]
root       230  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kswapd0]
root       273  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [aio/0]
root       274  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [aio/1]
root      1017  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jun19   0:34 [pdflush]
root      1319  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [ksnapd]
root      1542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [ata/0]
root      1543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [ata/1]
root      1544  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [ata_aux]
root      1555  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root      1556  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root      1593  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root      1598  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [khubd]
root      2489  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root      2711  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   6:59 [kjournald]
root      2867  0.0  0.0  16868   980 ?        S<s  Jun15   0:03 /sbin/udevd --daemon
root      3317  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kpsmoused]
root      4296  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [kjournald]
root      4302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:00 [vmhgfs]
root      4622  0.0  0.0   3864   588 tty4     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root      4623  0.0  0.0   3864   584 tty5     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root      4626  0.0  0.0   3864   584 tty2     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root      4632  0.0  0.0   3864   588 tty3     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root      4634  0.0  0.0   3864   588 tty6     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
syslog    4673  0.0  0.0  12296   768 ?        Ss   Jun15   1:31 /sbin/syslogd -u syslog
root      4692  0.0  0.0   8132   588 ?        S    Jun15   0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg
klog      4694  0.0  0.1   6004  2752 ?        Ss   Jun15   0:00 /sbin/klogd -P /var/run/klogd/kmsg
root      4860  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Jun15   0:21 [vmmemctl]
root      4969  0.1  0.0  22960  1428 ?        Ss   Jun15  10:50 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
daemon    5011  0.0  0.0  16428   432 ?        Ss   Jun15   0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root      5022  0.0  0.0  18616   984 ?        Ss   Jun15   0:07 /usr/sbin/cron
root     12578  0.0  0.0   3864   584 tty1     Ss+  Jun15   0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root     14054  0.0  0.1  67972  2904 ?        Ss   13:46   0:00 sshd: paul [priv]
paul     14139  0.0  0.0  68112  1780 ?        R    13:46   0:00 sshd: paul@pts/0
paul     14143  0.1  0.1  20616  3572 pts/0    Ss   13:46   0:00 -bash
root     14301  0.0  0.0  34540  1364 pts/0    S    13:46   0:00 su -
root     14454  0.0  0.0  18868  2052 pts/0    S    13:46   0:00 -su
root     18602  0.0  0.0  15064  1092 pts/0    R+   14:01   0:00 ps aux
root     25488  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jun18   0:25 [pdflush]
root     27667  0.0  0.0  50916  1160 ?        Ss   Jun16   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root@mail:~#

Sure looks to me like everyting is stopped. I appreciate your input.