[SOLVED] Serious installation problems

[underdog]

Hi there,
I know that officially Centos isn't supported but after reading about a few people installing the RHEL5 version without any issues i thought i'd give it a go however there are some serious issues, the last of which has completely left me stuck. Can anyone help me out with this, i think it's just a small setting somewhere i need to fix to get it up and running.

Firstly it's worth mentioning that if you have SELinux running YOU MUST DISABLE THIS OR ZIMBRA WILL NOT INSTALL. And i had to completely reinstall Centos to get the installer to run again (it hangs forever trying to uninstall the previous/corrupt installation)

OK so after this i managed to get zimbra installed however when i try to start it now i get the following message

Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# su - zimbra
[zimbra@localhost ~]$ zmcontrol start
Host localhost
Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.
Unable to determine enabled services. Cache is out of date or doesn't exist.
[zimbra@localhost ~]$

Please can someone throw me a bone, this is a totally fresh zimbra (zcs-5.0.9_GA_2533.RHEL5) installaion on a fresh CentOS 5 box.


Thank you very very much

[uxbod]

Firewall Configuration should be set to No firewall, and the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) should be disabled.

taken from Zimbraâ„¢ Collaboration Suite Single Server Installation - Open Source

I would check your DNS setup for the other issue

dig _domainname_ mx
dig _domainname_ any
dig _fqdn_hostname
cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/hosts

[underdog]

Hi there,
thanks for that, i missed that with the installer. i just saw the instructions on the wiki.
Also, yes after some serious digging i think i have some DNS issues.
I'll post whatever i do to get it fixed

[underdog]

Hmm, ok this might be a little off topic but i was hoping someone might be able to help as i can imagine that some people have seen this before and will see this again:

here's the scenario:

i have a router etc all setup and accepting connections to ports 25, 110,80, 7071 and 143 (i think that's all i need for zimbra but not sure perhaps you can confirm this also?). On my DNS i have the mx record for mail.whatever.com pointing to the static ip address which my router is listening on and i can ping etc all fine and well.

in my /etc/hosts file i have:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain           localhost
          mail.whatever.com        mailserver

but when i install zimbra i get the following:

DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.underdogmedia.co.uk
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS
Change domain name? [Yes]

so i type in "no"

and then it all installs fine until i get:

** Backup /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra to /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra.20080903134531
** Creating server cert request /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/server/server.csr...done.
** Signing cert request /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/server/server.csr...done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 Installing mailboxd SSL certificates...
Wed Sep  3 13:45:32 2008 *** Running as root user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr deploycrt self
** Installing mta certificate and key...done.
** Installing slapd certificate and key...done.
** Installing proxy certificate and key...done.
** Creating pkcs12 file /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/jetty.pkcs12...done.
** Creating keystore file /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/keystore...done.
** Installing CA to /opt/zimbra/conf/ca...done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 done.
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 checking isEnabled zimbra-ldap
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 zimbra-ldap is enabled
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 Initializing ldap...
Wed Sep  3 13:45:34 2008 *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapinit
IO::Socket::INET: connect: timeout at /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapinit line 160.
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 failed. (29440)
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008

ERROR

Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008

Configuration failed

Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 Please address the error and re-run /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.pl to
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008 complete the configuration.
Wed Sep  3 13:48:15 2008
Errors have been logged to /tmp/zmsetup.01001900-0000147115208.log

Any ideas? some help anyone, this is really baking my head

Thanks

[underdog]

rrrr, ok sorry and thanks.
it was a problem with my hosts file, i assumed i should put my public facing ip beside the hostname.
should be the private one.
Thanks

[thamturauquap]

How do you do? can you specify me, please? thanks a lot!

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by thamturauquap

How do you do? can you specify me, please? thanks a lot!

What is it you're trying to do? You haven't given much information in this post. If you're trying to install a Zimbra server then have you read the Documentation or searched the forums for some information on your problem. When posting on the forums do give a complete description of what you're trying to do and what setps you've taken to resolve your problem.

[thamturauquap]

Originally Posted by underdog

rrrr, ok sorry and thanks.
it was a problem with my hosts file, i assumed i should put my public facing ip beside the hostname.
should be the private one.
Thanks

I have the same mistake with Underdog, but I don't know how to put your public facing facing ip beside the hostname to be the private one. Hence, can Underdog tell me that?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by thamturauquap

I have the same mistake with Underdog, but I don't know how to put your public facing facing ip beside the hostname to be the private one. Hence, can Underdog tell me that?

You're still not giving much information. Is your server behind a NAT router? If it is you'll need a Split DNS set-up, if it's not then read the Quick Start Installation Guide for the details you need. This question has been asked and answered many times in the forums. We can't help you unless you give sufficient information and do some research yourself.

[thamturauquap]

I have solved this problem by set password for all term which need to change password. Hence, I have install zimbra successfully!
But, after that, I continously install bind9:

apt-get install bind9

then

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  bind9: Depends: libisccc30 (= 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2) but 1:9.4.2-10 is to be installed
         Depends: libisccfg30 (= 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2) but 1:9.4.2-10 is to be installed
  bind9-host: Depends: libisccfg30 (= 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2) but 1:9.4.2-10 is to be installed
  dnsutils: Depends: libisccfg30 (= 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2) but 1:9.4.2-10 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I retry by: apt-get remove --purge bind9 and apt-get install bind9 but That's errors