[Fedora-directory-users] Admin Server on Centos 4.1

[Gabriele Chervatin]

> i encountered this error by having a system configured to use LDAP for
> uid/group lookups (see /etc/nsswitch.conf) and the LDAP server being
> down.  when the server was down the install would display the above
> error, and the admin server wouldn't start.  once i configured the
> nsswitch.conf to look at local files and not LDAP, the install went
> smoothly.

I've checked /etc/nsswitch.conf but is configured to use local files.

> i also found that if i installed using the default install option (2),
> it never seemed to install right.  but, if i installed using the express
> install (1) it worked fine.

I've tryed both without luck.

> you could try editing the start-admin script and adding "strace" right
> before the command that starts the admin server.  that may lend some
> details where the process is dying.

I've modified the file in this way:

./$PRODUCT_BIN -d $PRODUCT_SUBDIR/config -strace $@

And so there is a new line in /opt/fedora-ds/admin-serv/logs/error :

[29/Jun/2005:09:35:38] failure ( 4191): Invalid configuration: Could
not determine base pathname of the file

I've tried the same things on Centos 4.1 and Fedora Core 4.

Thanks
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Gabriele Chervatin