[SOLVED] Postfix failed to start: scan_dir_push

[jerelabs]

I'm doing a reinstall of zimbra (5.0.2 GA) on Ubuntu 6.06 and have everything up and running but postfix. I'm getting the following on "zmcontrol start":

Starting ldap...Done.
Starting mailbox...Done.
Starting antispam...Done.
Starting antivirus...Done.
Starting snmp...Done.
Starting spell...Done.
Starting mta...FAILED
postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
postfix failed to start

Starting stats...Done.

When I first restored I had a problem where it was using the wrong version of postfix, but I fixed that.

I've done zmfixperms (As root) several times.

Logs show the following error

zimbra postfix/postqueue[2554]: fatal: Connect to the Postfix showq service: Permission denied

Thoughts?

[phoenix]

Do you have iptable, SELinux or another mail server running?

[jerelabs]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Do you have iptable, SELinux or another mail server running?

It's new install of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server. Uninstalled iptable -- didn't help. SELinux is not installed. No other mail server installed. A netstat shows only named and sshd running.

[jerelabs]

I think my postfix problem was related to a goof on my part when restoring (my backup was of 5.01 but used 5.02 as the dummy install).

So I uninstalled zimbra, restored my backup, then ran a dummy install of 5.01.

I had a problem where both the logger and mailbox sql wasn't working. Searching the forums I ran:

zmlocalconfig -f -e mysql_logger_root_password=...Password from config.save...
zmlocalconfig -f -e mysql_root_password=...Password from config.save...

Now a "zmcontrol status" gives

antispam                Running
antivirus               Running
ldap                    Running
logger                  Stopped
        zmlogswatchctl is not running
mailbox                 Stopped
        zmmailboxdctl is not running
mta                     Running
snmp                    Running
spell                   Running
stats                   Stopped

Does this indicate a continued problem with wrong passwords or is there something else going on?

[jerelabs]

Well I believe everything with the mysql passwords is fine since I can run a "mysql mysql" w/o any errors.


The only errors I see in logs are in zmmailboxd.out

0    INFO  [main] log - Logging to org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerAdapter(org.mortbay.log) via org.mortbay.log.Slf4jLog
Zimbra server reserving server socket port=110 bindaddr=null ssl=false
Zimbra server reserving server socket port=995 bindaddr=null ssl=true
Fatal error: exception while binding to ports
java.net.SocketException: Unbound server sockets not implemented
        at javax.net.ServerSocketFactory.createServerSocket(ServerSocketFactory.java:80)
        at com.zimbra.common.util.NetUtil.newBoundServerSocket(NetUtil.java:91)
        at com.zimbra.common.util.NetUtil.bindServerSocket(NetUtil.java:122)
        at com.zimbra.common.util.NetUtil.bindSslTcpServerSocket(NetUtil.java:51)
        at com.zimbra.common.handlers.PrivilegedHandler.openPorts(PrivilegedHandler.java:85)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.call(XmlConfiguration.java:534)
        at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:244)
        at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.configure(XmlConfiguration.java:206)
        at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:968)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:183)
        at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:497)
        at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:115)

When running install.sh it also complains about initializing the document store.

Initializing Documents...
COS attribute retrieved for COS default: zimbraFeatureNotebookEnabled=TRUE
*** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov mc default zimbraFeatureNotebookEnabled TRUE
ERROR: zclient.IO_ERROR (invoke Connection refused, server: localhost) (cause: java.net.ConnectException Connection refused)
*** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov mcf zimbraNotebookAccount wiki@zimbra.MYDOMAIN.com
ERROR: zclient.IO_ERROR (invoke Connection refused, server: localhost) (cause: java.net.ConnectException Connection refused)
*** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov in wiki@zimbra.MYDOMAIN.com
ERROR: zclient.IO_ERROR (invoke Connection refused, server: localhost) (cause: java.net.ConnectException Connection refused)
*** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov mc default zimbraFeatureNotebookEnabled FALSE
ERROR: zclient.IO_ERROR (invoke Connection refused, server: localhost) (cause: java.net.ConnectException Connection refused)
failed to initialize documents...see logfile for details.
*** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmprov mc default zimbraFeatureNotebookEnabled TRUE
ERROR: zclient.IO_ERROR (invoke Connection refused, server: localhost) (cause: java.net.ConnectException Connection refused)

I've looked in /var/log, /opt/zimbra/tomcat/logs, and /opt/zimbra/log and I don't see any other errors.

Also, "fuser" doesn't report anything on ports 143, 110, or 80.

[jerelabs]

Well after numerous uninstalls/installs I managed to get everything to work. I'm not sure what did it, but at least it's all working...very very strange.

[jay.choklsi]

hi,
i am facing same problem can you tell me how to resolve this problem?


Jan 31 02:15:00 mailserver postfix/postqueue[21836]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
Jan 31 02:15:15 mailserver postfix/postsuper[22088]: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Jan 31 02:15:16 mailserver postfix/postfix-script[22114]: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!

[phoenix]

This is attached to a thread that's almost a year old and on a different subject, please start a new thread next time!

Originally Posted by jay.choklsi

hi,
i am facing same problem can you tell me how to resolve this problem?

Did you search the forums first, there's an answer there if you look.

[jay.choklsi]

Thanks...for your help.

[simonb]

Originally Posted by jay.choklsi

hi,
i am facing same problem can you tell me how to resolve this problem?


Jan 31 02:15:00 mailserver postfix/postqueue[21836]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down
Jan 31 02:15:15 mailserver postfix/postsuper[22088]: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Jan 31 02:15:16 mailserver postfix/postfix-script[22114]: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!

I didn't see the solution on this thread. I have just experienced this problem after starting a snap-shot-cloned server. For me running /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms as root fixed the problem. I didn't have selinux running on the cloned server.