installing posix/samba extensions: tomcat hangs on admin-console

[auanton]

hi all, newbie here

following the instructions in:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?tit...imbra_Admin_UI

i reached point 8:

8 Reload your Zimbra Admin to initialize the extensions. When the extensions are loaded for the first time, they will check if OUs defined by ldapMachineSuffix and ldapGroupSuffix propertiesin config_template.xml files exist and create these OUs, if they do not exist.

... but i cannot login as admin: it hangs, just "loading..."
this happens only for admin-logins, not for user-logins

in the end i found out:

---deleting the two directories:

/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_posixaccount
/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_samba
and doing "tomcat restart" everything runs smoothly.

the console shows even the two extensions as deployed.

putting them back in place, tomcat hangs on admin-login again.

i am running zimbra 4.5.5 community version on ubuntu 6.0.6

thanks for help

anton

[penguinknight]

I am getting the exact same behavior on ubuntu 6.10 with zcs 4.5.5.

http://tinyurl.com/yoabyj
That is the guide I went off of, perhaps if you used the same guide there is something incorrect in what they have the user install or the like?

Unfortunately during this freezeup before login being displayed nothing is logged in /opt/zimbra/log

The only error I get during install is there is
no MX record, do you want to change domain name?
This is because my intranet DNS server doesn't have MX records, just A. I didn't think this would matter because I could still email out (but I never did try emailing to another mailbox....hm)

I have tried in IE, no luck
I have tried editing the file in windows (because I saw pico saying "dos format" when I open one of the files), no luck

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated (and probably good since Zimbra + Ubuntu are going to be working together at network edition level).

Thank you for an incredible server

-Jeremy

[penguinknight]

I got the admin console to load with the extensions working.

I did a:
chmod a+rwx /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/zimbraldaputils/zimbraldaputils.jar
Then restarted the services....
su - zimbra
zmcontrol stop
zmcontrol start

And I think what happened was zimbra saw the admin extensions which referenced a file, zimbraldaputils.jar, which the zimbra user couldn't read because of permissions

Please let me know if you are able to get it working with this, unfortunately I was messing with more than JUST the permissions when I got it working so I can't be sure that the permissions really did the trick.

[auanton]

confirmed !
it was a permission problem

so i did:
chmod a+rwx /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/zimbraldaputils/zimbraldaputils.jar

and also on the directories:
chmod a+rwx /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_posixaccount
chmod a+rwx /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_samba
and also:
chmod a+r /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_posixaccount/*
chmod a+r /opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-5.5.15/webapps/service/zimlet/zimbra_samba/*

( making permissions identical to those of the other zimlets )

the console loads fine now.

perhaps an expert should judge whether these changes in permissions are safe ??


anton

[jholder]

You probably should run the following commands to repair Permissions zimbra-wide:

su - root
cd /opt/zimbra/libexec
./zmfixperms