[389-users] The installation error on the 389 LDAP

[Rich Megginson]

Ajeet S Raina wrote:
> It seems that the 389-ds package are not removed properly.
> I faced the issue couple of time and can help you out with the same.
>
> Step 0:service dirsrv stop;service dirsrv-admin stop >> Most Important
> Step 1: Delete dirsrv under /etc
There are other files you must remove too.  remove-ds-admin.pl will do 
step 0 and 1 and other steps too.
> Step 2: Delete setup* under /tmp
not really necessary
> Step 3: yum remove 389-*
> Step 4: Restart the Server: Reason: Port 389 remains open
Really?  Then service dirsrv stop didn't work.  This should not be necessary
> Step 5:yum install 389-*
> Step 6: Now everything will go fine.
>
> Please dont forget to thank me back if it works !!
>
> Revert back if anywhere you face any issue.
>
> Happy LinuXing !!!
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com 
> <mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Majian wrote:
>     > Hi ,all :
>     >
>     >  During I install the 389 directory server ,the result is the
>     following :
>     >
>     >
>     > ...
>     >
>     > ..
>     >
>     > Are your ready to set up you servers?
>     > Creating directory server ...
>     > Your new DS instance "xx" was successfully created .
>     >
>     > Creating the configuration directory server...
>     > Could not authenticate as user
>     > "uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot"
>     > to server "ldap://cds.mobilepeak.com.cn:389/o=NetscapeRoot
>     <http://cds.mobilepeak.com.cn:389/o=NetscapeRoot>
>     > <http://cds.mobilepeak.com.cn:389/o=NetscapeRoot>" . Error: Invaild
>     > credentials
>     >
>     >
>     > Could not register the directory server with the configuration
>     > directory server
>     > Exiting ....
>     >
>     > Log file is '/tmp/...."
>     >
>     >
>     > Why does it become  that ?  Could someone give some advices to me ?
>     >
>     > I installed the "centos directory server " on that server
>     previously,
>     > but i have already remove all the file via "yum erase "centos-ds"."
>     >
>     >
>     > Maybe is it  associated with that ?
>     Yes.  If you have previously run setup-ds-admin.pl
>     <http://setup-ds-admin.pl>, you must run
>     remove-ds-admin.pl <http://remove-ds-admin.pl> to completely
>     remove everything.  In addition, yum
>     erase centos-ds will just remove the centos-ds "meta" package - if you
>     want to remove the actual real packages, do the following:
>     yum erase centos-ds-base centos-idm-console adminutil
>     after running remove-ds-admin.pl <http://remove-ds-admin.pl>
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance ~
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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