Installation fails on vServer / Debian 3.1

[Tobias]

Hi Folks,
I'm trying to set up Zimbra in a virtual Environment with at least 256Mb RAM.
As I read in several other Threads, this seems to be very problematic.

The installation fails, when the install.sh tries to setup the Zimbra-core-deb.

Quote from the install-log:

COMMAND: zmlocalconfig -s | sed -e "s/ = \(.*\)/=\'\1\'/" > /opt/zimbra/.savecon
fig/config.save
-su: line 1: zmlocalconfig: command not found
COMMAND: zmcontrol shutdown
-su: line 1: zmcontrol: command not found
Selecting previously deselected package zimbra-core.
(Reading database ... 20877 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking zimbra-core (from .../zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up zimbra-core (4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1) ...
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/a*': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/s[a-su-z]*': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-*': No such file or directory
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing zimbra-core (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
zimbra-core

As I found out in this Thread, it seems to be a common error on virtual Servers:

Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.

The problem is, that I cannot modify the zmshutil file as described, because at the moment of installation it is packed in the core-deb.
Any suggestions?

I don't know how to handle this error either:

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/a*': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/s[a-su-z]*': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-*': No such file or directory

Thanks for your help,

Tobias

[phoenix]

Welcome to the forums.

Your memory allocation is way below the required minimum, you should increase it or you will continue to have problems.

[Tobias]

That's what I worried about, but I hoped that I would be able to install Zimbra at least. Especially, because I don't need max performance, Zimbra should only be used for two or three people.

Is there a possibility to reduce the amount of needed memory _before_ installation?


Tobias

[friedmar]

Tobias,

do a 2 part install:

1. install only the software with the switch -s
2. do the necessary modifications
3. run /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsetup.sh

In fact this is what happens in install.sh without th -s switch.

Have in mind that you nead at least 512 K available memory in the vserver. I used this with good performance on a rootds of vserver.de.

Friedmar