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Installation and Upgrades / Re: VPN error

« on: June 02, 2015, 09:26:15 pm »

Hi KJackson50,

that looks like your client couldn't even get a connection to the server. Please can you check if you have opened/forwarded port 1194 (udp or tcp, depends on your server configuration)?
You can check if your openvpn server is accepting connections with nmap or simply with telnet.
Also have a look at the openvpn log file, a connection attempt should be logged there.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Several attempts at 4.1 install - failed everytime!

« on: June 02, 2015, 03:18:07 pm »

Hi philtrim,

since you had various problems I'll try to address them one by one:

I had problems with GRUB partitioning the hard drive (because of a previous install of a Linux os)

In the case you want to install zentyal as your only primary operation system, and ONLY in this case, you could try to reset the partition table to get around this problem. You can use the partition tool of your choice, delete all partitions and write the partition table to the disk. Another option would be overwriting the first blocks of your drive, including the partition table:

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dd if=/dev/random of=/device/path bs=512 count=1024

Second time, after reboot in post install, I get a graphics issue where the GUI crashes.

So your installation finished successfully? You should check the xorg logfile after the gui crash. However, did this happen only once or after every reboot?

Third attempt, failed to read the CD rom at various places, and last attempt, would not pull an IP to download install packages.

This sounds like a media or cd-drive issue. You could check the media for example dd the whole content of the cd to an image file and wait for read errors. You can also reburn the image or do a usb based installation (which is even faster by the way) to get around these kind of problems.

and last attempt, would not pull an IP to download install packages

Can you please switch to a console and check for internet connection right at the beginning of the installer? If it really have not pulled an ip you can try to do that manually with

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dhcpcd eth0 (replace eth0 with your network device name). If even this fails, you most propably have an issue with your dhcp server. You can assign an ip manually with ifconfig and ad a default router with route add after this.

I am going to try to install Zentyal after Ubuntu completes....

That's how I installed zentyal virtualized in a OpenVZ environment, because there's no zentyal image for openvz but for ubuntu it is. It worked flawlessly for me.

Should I have tried 3.2 instead?

I wouldn't suggest that. Since you should update your system to the latest version anyway, I would prefer starting with the most recent version and update from there.

Andreas

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Installation and Upgrades / default gateway not added to network/interfaces

« on: June 02, 2015, 02:52:57 pm »

Hi zentyal users,

first I have to say that I couln'd find a input field labeled 'gateway' in the network interface configuration dialog. This seems odd to me, since a default gateway is an interface-related option. That's why debian stores the default gateway in /etc/network/interfaces.

I figured out that I could enter the gateway in network/gateways and mark it as default. After checking this on my system, no gateway definition was entered in my /etc/network/interfaces. Where is it stored?

Andy what I really don't understand: a 'route -n' reports that the default route that I added manually before was removed, and now there isn't any in the list! However, internet access works. I can ping to the outside world and traceroute even tells me that my default router is used.

Please can someone explain to me where the gateway settings are stored, how they are applied and why the gateway doesn't show up in the kernels routing table?

Thank you in advance!