Fedora 11 zcs 6.0 not starting on boot

[Lantzvillian]

hi guys,

after thinking about split dns, I solved my other problem and zimbra has been running solidly for my two domains. One problem still remains however, Zimbra will not start on boot!

I tried:
#chkconfig zimbra on
#chkconfig --list shows it for 345!

edited rc.local and added service zimbra start.

If I manually run that or zmcontrol it starts up just fine. Whats up? is this a service startup order problem?

Thanks,

Ron

[uxbod]

Have you checked /var/log/messages to see if any errors are being thrown ?

[Lantzvillian]

I'm not seeing anything , grepped it for anything zimbra. Thats a bit odd, scanned ps-aux for zimbra and didn't see anything either

[uxbod]

ps -u zimbra

[Lantzvillian]

Yes I did that, and nothing was there. I started to think what would stop it and it appears that in Fedora 11, the Network service and NetworkManager service can hang the startup at the final stages of startup or just hangout and the next services such as those in rc.local will not run.

In the end I got it to work, I disabled NetworkManager, wrote my network-scripts, removed it from rc.local and used chkconfig to set the runlevel for Zimbra.

Tested the boot and I was back in action.

If anyone else reads this, if you run into this problem and cannot get a prompt into your box, the easiest way is either with a Rescue disk OR tell GRUB to boot in single user mode.

Thanks uxbod!