zmsaslauthdctl fails, issue with set_auth_mech

[auburn]

Hi I'm installing the debian package for ver3.2 (on ubuntu dapper) and zmcontrol is telling me my mta won't start because my zmsaslauthdctl is failing:

~/bin$ ./zmsaslauthdctl start
saslauthd[30465] :set_auth_mech   : failed to initialize mechanism zimbra

Now I'm seeing people are suggesting using zmprov to fix these problems, but whenever I call zmprov I get this:

[] INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused
[] INFO: Retrying request

I fear that my real problem may be a lack of understanding of how routing works with and around an mta. Should I have said my hosting domain was localhost.localdomain? or is robertgeronimo-desktop.thenycworker.com (albeit long) okay? What about dns? What about the Mx record?

I wouldn't mind being referred to another link or howto if you think that would help.
-thx

[KevinH]

Our auth uses the SOAP api so it's trying to talk to Tomcat. Is tomcat running?

[auburn]

Thx for your help.
That seems relevant. I called zmcontrol stop and tomcat start and saw the 7070 port in use for the first time with nmap. But then when I said zmcontrol start the 7070 port disappeared.

Starting tomcat gave me these errors:

$ ./tomcat start
ERROR: service.FAILURE (system failure: getDirectContext) (cause: javax.naming.CommunicationException robertgeronimo-desktop.thenycworker.com:389)

grepping through the processes after starting tomcat provides this:

$ ps ax|grep tom
28902 ?        Ss     0:00 /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmtomcatmgr start -Xms74m -Xmx74m -client -XX:NewRatio=2
28903 ?        Sl     0:06 /opt/zimbra/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/java -Xms74m -Xmx74m -client -XX:NewRatio=2 -Dcatalina.base=/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/temp -Djava.library.path=/opt/zimbra/lib -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/common/endorsed -classpath /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/bin/commons-logging-api.jar:/opt/zimbra/lib/jars/zimbra-launcher.jar com.zimbra.cs.launcher.TomcatLauncher

I don't know if it's relevant, but I replaced the Tomcat server.xml file with the developer version from cvs accoring to bluetoad's directions:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?tit...tware_yourself

[marcmac]

This may be a library issue. There's an ldap lib specified in the sasl conf file - try running
sh -x bin/zmsaslauthdctl start
and look for the line that actually invokes saslauthd, then try running that by hand.

It's actually possible that sasl does a dlopen() on the ldap library, which fails because of another dependency.

The other option is that the ldap_url in saslauthd.conf isn't right (should be substituted in saslauthd.conf.in). This is common in systems with ldap replication enabled, pre 4.0

[auburn]

I'll have to give that a try on Monday. I'll be back -thx.

[auburn]

That didn't seem to produce much more info:

~/bin$ /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.ZIMBRA/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
saslauthd[7020] :set_auth_mech   : failed to initialize mechanism zimbra

and I was using ver3.2.

I'll guess I could try installing 4.0.
-thx

[mintra]

Hi

I am trying to set up a backup Zimbra server so that we can move a fedora core 3 install to a Centos 4 server.

I put a box in place which I had previously installed the 4.5 beta on, then I deleted the /opt Zimbra directory and have installed 3.1.0 version onto it ready for us to move the data from the core 3 machine

However now I just get the message

zmsaslauthdctl is not running

After a zmcontrol status everything else seems to be running.

Is this as I have not removed the 4.5 beta properly

What should I do to make this run

[mintra]

the zimbra log file has a load of stuff in it but this may be relevant.

com.zimbra.cs.account.AccountServiceException: authentication failed for zimbra (empty password)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.AccountServiceException.AUTH _FAILED(AccountServiceException.java:77)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.authAc count(LdapProvisioning.java:2065)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.admin.Auth.handle(Auth.java: 82)

I will try and reinstall

[seunaw]

I am running to the same issue; trying to install on centos 5,

~/bin$ /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.ZIMBRA/sbin/saslauthd -r -a zimbra
saslauthd[7020] :set_auth_mech : failed to initialize mechanism zimbra

was this issue ever solved