Removing hostname from hosts file fixed prob.
So I think I tried every fix in the forums over the past week, several RedHat reinstalls and what feels like dozens of Zimbra reinstalls. Nothing helped. what finally did help was actually removing my hostname.mydomain from the hosts file so it simply read:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
One I did that, the Zimbra install went smoothly, I got conformation that the services started, I was able to login to the admin page (took about 30 sec) and am now looking at the Zimbra Admin console.
I'm not going to bother posting my previous install errors unless you guys want something from them, just wanted to throw out what solved my installation problem.
Not quite like your host file issue.
joshuamorgan,
Actually, my hosts file initially looked like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
192.168.xxx.x mailserver.mydomain.com
So the hostfile had a non-loopback IP address and the fully qualified domain name on a second, separate line. When I deleted the second line and had only the loopback and localhost.localdomain, Tomcat started on it's own and I was able to login to the Admin console. Don't really understand it since I do an nslookup and it still resolves exactly what I had in my hosts file.
riegersteve,
Didn't quite understand where you were suggesting putting the period,
Are you talking about after domain.com like in a bind dns zone file?
The recommended hosts file config breaks my Zimbra.
Yea, no idea why the recommended config breaks my Zimbra.
I'm going to list two startups. The first one with the recommended hosts file config and second startup, with only loopback and localhost.localdomain localhost
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First, if my hostfile looks like the following, everything works fine. All services start up and I can login.
Code:
[root@muscrat ~]# 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
Now I'm going to insert the second, fully qualified name and IP address line in my hosts file, reboot and do a ps -ef |grep zimbra.
Code:
[root@muscrat ~]# 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
192.168.xxx.xxx muscrat.xxxxxxxxxx.com muscrat
[root@muscrat ~]# ps -ef |grep zimbra
zimbra 3347 1 0 11:18 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/openldap/libexec/slapd -4 -u zimbra -h ldap://:7389/ -f /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.conf
zimbra 3415 1 0 11:18 ? 00:00:00 perl /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmon
zimbra 3435 3415 0 11:18 ? 00:00:00 perl /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmon
zimbra 3436 3415 0 11:18 ? 00:00:00 perl /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmon
root 4590 4522 0 11:20 pts/1 00:00:00 grep zimbra
[root@muscrat ~]#
After adding the second, recommended line into my hosts file, the Zimbra services do not start as they should.
Now I get Zimbra back up and running by doing removing the second line from the host file.
Code:
[root@muscrat ~]# 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
#192.168.xxx.xxx muscrat.xxxxxxxxxx.com muscrat
I then reboot, do a ps -ef|grep zimbra and get these results:
Code:
[root@muscrat ~]# ps -ef |grep zimbra
root 3136 1982 0 11:23 ? 00:00:00 initlog -q -c /etc/rc5.d/S99zimbra start
root 3137 3136 0 11:23 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc5.d/S99zimbra start
root 3138 3137 0 11:23 ? 00:00:00 su - zimbra -c zmcontrol startup
zimbra 3143 3138 0 11:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol startup
zimbra 3346 1 0 11:23 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/openldap/libexec/slapd -4 -u zimbra -h ldap://:7389/ -f /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.conf
zimbra 3799 1 2 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (master)
zimbra 4023 3799 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra 4024 3799 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra 4025 3799 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra 4026 3799 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra 4027 3799 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 amavisd (virgin child)
zimbra 4210 1 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/clamav/bin/freshclam --config-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/freshclam.conf -d --checks=12
zimbra 4213 1 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/clamav/sbin/clamd --config-file /opt/zimbra/conf/clamd.conf
zimbra 4365 1 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /opt/zimbra/bin/zmmtaconfig
zimbra 4499 1 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --ledir=/opt/zimbra/mysql/bin
zimbra 4556 4499 8 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4591 4556 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4592 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4593 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4594 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4595 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4604 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4605 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4606 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4607 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4608 4591 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf --basedir=/opt/zimbra/mysql --datadir=/opt/zimbra/db/data --pid-file=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.pid --skip-locking --port=3306 --socket=/opt/zimbra/db/mysql.sock
zimbra 4678 1 71 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -client -XX:NewRatio=2 -Xms303m -Xmx303m -Djava.library.path=/opt/zimbra/lib -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/zimbra/tomcat/common/endorsed -classpath :/opt/zimbra/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/zimbra/tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/zimbra/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/zimbra/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/zimbra/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
zimbra 4703 4365 51 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /opt/zimbra/java/bin/java -client -Dzimbra.home=/opt/zimbra -Djava.library.path=/opt/zimbra/lib -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/zimbra/java/jre/lib/ext:/opt/zimbra/lib com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil gs muscrat.xxxxxxxxxx.com
zimbra 4785 3143 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 sh -c /opt/zimbra/bin/zmsaslauthdctl start > /dev/null 2>&1
zimbra 4786 4785 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /opt/zimbra/bin/zmsaslauthdctl start
root 4790 3945 0 11:24 pts/1 00:00:00 grep zimbra
zimbra 4797 4786 0 11:24 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /opt/zimbra/bin/zmlocalconfig -q -m shell zimbra_home zimbra_log_directory
[root@muscrat ~]#
I have no idea why adding the fully qualified name and ip address breaks my Zimbra, but it does.
By the way, ifconfig -a returns the same IP address as I am adding to the second line of my hosts file.
Now I have to figure out why SMTP TLS isn't letting me authenticate via Thunderbird... ;-)
Cheers!
