OK - I turned on debugging for the startconsole with this command: ./startconsole -D 9 > /tmp/console.log 2>&1
Around when the traceback happens, the logfile indicated "Unable to read <my_user_home>/.fedora-console/jars" directory. 
 
This directory did not exist in the user's home/.fedora-console directory.  I checked a working Fedora DS installation on another machine and saw that there were two jar files that should be in that directory: ds10.jar and ds10_en.jar
 
I created the jar directory by hand and put the two jarfiles in from the installation directory, then everything worked.
 
It looks like there's a possible installation problem.
 
Thanks,
Jenny

From: fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kancianic, Jennifer C.
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:41 PM
To: 'fedora-directory-users@redhat.com'
Subject: [Fedora-directory-users] Startconsole Directory Server access causes traceback and hangs s tartconsole

I've been working on this for a few hours and am now stumped as to what to do next.  Any pointers would be great:
I installed fedora-ds-1.0.2-1RHEL4.x86_64.opt.rpm on RedHat 2.6.9-34.Elsmp on my Linux server, configured it to run as a non-root user, pointed the ports appropriately and started it up as the non-root user.  I can login using JXplorer fine (it's using ldap:\\ method of connecting).

I then want to initialize the database with an LDIF from another server, so did a startconsole and logged in as the Directory Manager using the http:// method of connection.  I am able to see the Administration Server and Directory Server listed items, but when I click on the Directory Server to open it, I get this traceback, which hangs the startconsole:

Exception in thread "<my_IP>" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
        at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:306)
        at com.netscape.management.client.com.AsyncByteArrayInputStream.write(Unknown Source)
        at com.netscape.management.client.com.HttpChannel.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at com.netscape.management.client.com.HttpChannel.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.thread.run(Thread.java:595)
 

Some other info:
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1. When I open the server to see the Administration Server and Directory Server, the icons associated with them were not displayed (only white boxes).

2. In the error.log for the admin-serv, I see this text:
Admserv_host_ip_check: ap_get_remote_host could not resolve <my_IP>
3. I saw reports about bug #183925 and configured the admin server as nsAdminAccessAddresses=255.255.255.255 and nsAdminAccessHosts: *, but this didn't help.  When I do an nslookup <myIP>, it shows the appropriate hostname for all Ips involved, so reverse DNS seems to work.

4. When I use a web browser to browse to the Directory Server Gateway, images are also not shown there.
Any thoughts about what may be causing the traceback or how to fix it?

Thanks,
Jenny