Unable to access services

[RogueSpear00]

Hello all! Just an FYI, I'm a Linux nub, so if you require files or commands to be done - kinda have to assume I don't know know what to do. If it was Windows, I'd be all over it

So my problem is this:
I just did a clean wipe of FC7 and installed Zimbra 5.0.10 on it - installation went without a hitch, no problems, MX record resolved, etc. Great -
But when trying to access the server via browser, no dice, even if on the server and trying to connect via localhost. Hosts file shows up all entries fine, ping resolves, server can access internet, and not behind a firewall (yet).

When I run "zmcontrol status", i get the following message:

Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.
Unable to determine enabled services. Cache is out of date or does not exist.

Upon running "zmcontrol stop" all services successfully stopped. When I try to run "zmcontrol start", it attempts to start ldap, but shows the same error.

I have this odd feeling that Linux just doesn't want me on any RC, and tries to sabotage all installations on me...

Oh, and when I did a 5.0.6 install a few months ago, it worked great.

Help! /tear

[uxbod]

Welcome to the forums

It is more than likely a DNS issue so please post the following

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig yourdomainname mx
dig yourserverfqdn
host `hostname` <- note backticks and not double quotes

[RogueSpear00]

[root@mailtest ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
67.88.163.67            mailtest.xxxxxx.com mailtest
[root@mailtest ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search getvms.com
nameserver 65.106.1.196
nameserver 65.106.7.196
[root@mailtest ~]# dig mailtest.xxxxxx.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.0 <<>> mailtest.xxxxxx.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5598
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mailtest.xxxxxx.com.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mailtest.xxxxxx.com.    4285    IN      A       67.88.163.67

;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 65.106.1.196#53(65.106.1.196)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 23 10:09:31 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 53

[root@mailtest ~]# host `hostname`
mailtest.xxxxxx.com has address 67.88.163.67
mailtest.xxxxxx.com mail is handled by 10 mailtest.xxxxxx.com.
[root@mailtest ~]#

[RogueSpear00]

Obviously xxxxxx has the right domain name - the 'mailtest' is because this is technically my testing MX record for now, my normal mail server points to the current mail server and I don't want to interrupt services.

[RogueSpear00]

Any ideas?

[fab]

We had similar problems, this is usually due to the zimbra ldap service not running so check if you have a slapd process belonging to the zimbra user.
Most tiimes we had to restore the whole ldap database from a backup (I mean all files in /opt/zimbra/openldap-data), but this used to happen with ZCS 4.5.x when the system went down ungracefully and zimbra cannot properly stop its services, we no longer had this problem with ZCS 5.0.

[irfan]

Can you check the errors in /var/log/zimbra.log when you start ldap service?
Also as asked by uxbod, please check your /etc/hosts file, it should have server's IP address and correct server fqdn.

[RogueSpear00]

All right, I'll check into those.

Irfan:

[root@mailtest ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
67.88.163.67            mailtest.xxxxxx.com mailtest

[irfan]

Just to make sure, check if output of following commands is correct

su -zimbra
zmhostname -> should give mailtest.xxxxxx.com

Check if ldap is running:
ps aux |grep slapd
If yes, check the servername in ldap, it should be mailtest.xxxxxx.com
zmprov -l gas

If still in problem, please post the logs from zimbra.log when you try to start ldap or zmcontrol.