Installing Zimbra on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

[stebed1960]

I got the same 28416 error (of course).
Curiosity pushed me to chek the running services (after I got the installation error),
here it is:
stebed@mail:~$ ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
6 ? 00:00:00 events/0
7 ? 00:00:00 khelper
41 ? 00:00:23 kblockd/0
44 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
45 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
105 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
142 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
143 ? 00:00:08 pdflush
144 ? 00:00:01 kswapd0
186 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
1336 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
1341 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
1369 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
1377 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
1938 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
2343 ? 00:00:07 kjournald
2499 ? 00:00:01 udevd
2739 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
4005 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4008 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4015 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4021 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4024 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4069 ? 00:00:00 dd
4071 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4094 ? 00:00:03 named
4116 ? 00:00:00 sshd
4140 ? 00:00:00 atd
4151 ? 00:00:00 cron
4173 tty1 00:00:00 getty
4197 ? 00:00:00 sshd
4199 ? 00:00:00 sshd
4200 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
4728 ? 00:00:00 sshd
4730 ? 00:00:00 sshd
4731 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
4854 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
10702 ? 00:00:03 slapd
10718 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

and I notice slapd is running. Is that right?

[flums]

slapd should NOT be running prior to Zimbra installation. Remove ldap and try to install Zimbra.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by stebed1960

and I notice slapd is running. Is that right?

No, as flums has said, it should not be running. Run a 'zmcontrol stop' (just to make sure) the run the following command to kill any remaining services:

ps auxww | awk '{print $1" "$2}' | grep zimbra | kill -9 `awk '{print $2}'`

When you've done that rerun the installer.

[stebed1960]

Originally Posted by phoenix

No, as flums has said, it should not be running. Run a 'zmcontrol stop' (just to make sure) the run the following command to kill any remaining services:

ps auxww | awk '{print $1" "$2}' | grep zimbra | kill -9 `awk '{print $2}'`

When you've done that rerun the installer.

I did the commands you told me about (I had to do "su zimbra" for both of them, because it didnt work using root or stebed user...) and now I'm rerunning the install.sh.

btw, after I did the zmcontrol stop , I notice that slapd was not running anymore.

After, when I was rerunning the install.sh, it asked me:
Do you want to verify message store database integrity? [Y]
Verifying integrity of message store databases. This may take a while.
I said Yes, and it said:
Error: assertion '-r /opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf' failed

It seemed stuck and I had to exit from that (using ctrl-c).
Then I run./install.sh -u and rerun the install. Now I'm waiting. If you have a few minute more of patience, I'll tell you the result. After that, working or not, I'll go home (my wife is asking me "who are you?" when I get home, lately.....)

[stebed1960]

No, I'm sorry...It doesn't work.
I hope this night I'll have no nightmare about zimbra......
Thank you for all your help.

[stebed1960]

I read the Flums post, better, and it says:
lapd should NOT be running prior to Zimbra installation.
I wrote I noticed slapd was running at the middle of the zimbra installation, when I was stopped by the error.
It was not before I start the installation...

[flums]

If you still have problems, su user zimbra, do the "zmcontrol stop" and a "rm -rf /opt/zimbra/*", check that ldap/mysql is not installed on the machine, rerun install. Installing Zimbra should be quite more easier than what you have experinced, let's give it another try

[stebed1960]

Originally Posted by flums

If you still have problems, su user zimbra, do the "zmcontrol stop" and a "rm -rf /opt/zimbra/*", check that ldap/mysql is not installed on the machine, rerun install. Installing Zimbra should be quite more easier than what you have experinced, let's give it another try

Thank you for taking care of my installation problem!

I tried what you told me, but still nothing.
Do you have any other idea?

[stebed1960]

I made a fresh installation on a different server (no virtual machine), and it works!
There were (apparently) no differences between them, but in this one it works. I will try to see I can find some hidden differences, and I'l let you know. Thank you for all your support, patience and courtesy.
Stefano

[phoenix]

As I mentioned earlier, I have my Zimbra running on an ESXi VM without problems. Just out of interest, how much RAM do you have for the VM?