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Other modules / Zentyal network module failed to start

« on: May 19, 2016, 12:13:18 pm »

I have a Zentyal server that powers off overnight and starts up automatically on BIOS alarm in the morning. The system is backed up and updates from the repos are automatically applied before shutdown. Today it couldn't load the Zentyal network and dns modules. Login for all users except root were affected.

I found this in /var/log/syslog

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May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: ----------------------------------------------------
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: BIND 9 is maintained by Internet Systems Consortium,
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: Inc. (ISC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) public-benefit
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: corporation.  Support and training for BIND 9 are
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: available at https://www.isc.org/support
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: ----------------------------------------------------
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: adjusted limit on open files from 4096 to 1048576
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: using 1 UDP listener per interface
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: using up to 4096 sockets
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: open: /etc/bind/named.conf: permission denied
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: loading configuration: permission denied
May 19 08:18:29 pc26415 named[1082]: exiting (due to fatal error)

I looked at /etc/bind/named.conf and ownership and permissions were root:bind 0400
I changed the permissions to 0640 and rebooted.

The Zentyal dns module started OK but networking still reported a fail.

On the console I executed the command

sudo /etc/init.d/zentyal network status

It chugged along for a while, in fact I thought the system had hung, but eventually Zentyal reported that the module was running. This was confirmed by all users being able to login in again and email flowing inbound and outbound.

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Installation and Upgrades / Where is the deb-src repository for Zentyal?

« on: December 13, 2015, 02:06:13 pm »

I would like to examine the packaging for a particular Zentyal module and check that it compiles as expected from the packaged source but I cannot find the official Zentyal deb-src package repository.

I don't want to go through the process of building a full development VM for Zentyal just to check the source of one package. It is commonplace for Debian derivatives to make available the individual package source for this exact purpose.

I added the following line to my /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb-src http://archive.zentyal.org/zentyal 4.2 main extra

Then I updated the cached apt lists using:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I would like to download the package source but I can't even get a list of what the source should contain:

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sudo apt-cache showsrc zentyal-samba
W: Unable to locate package zentyal-samba
N: No packages found

Where is the deb-src for Zentyal?

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Installation and Upgrades / Are my Root DN credentials invalid?

« on: June 04, 2014, 03:45:07 pm »

I am trying to use various external LDAP tools to make some simple changes to objects in my LDAP tree but I keep getting 'invalid credentials' errors.

I have created a few 'Contacts' objects and I want to store a telephone number for each contact. I have been using JXplorer 3.3 to successfully browse the LDAP tree using a fully distinguished name for cn=zentyalro and querying on port 390. However, when I try to use the admin credentials for cn=zentyal in order to make changes I get an invalid credentials error. Either the ID or password or both shown on the LDAP Settings page for the Root DN is not correct or I have some other problem.

I have tried a few other LDAP tools and read only browsing is OK using the readonly DN but I cannot authenticate to make changes using the admin DN.

I also experimented setting the Zentyal firewall to allow LDAP on ports 390 and 636 as an NMAP scan shows ldapssl on 636 but this didn't work either, connection refused errors.

What am I doing wrong?

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Installation and Upgrades / Why does Ubuntu 14.04 LTS repository have only Zentyal 2.3.21?

« on: April 18, 2014, 05:50:02 pm »

I have been testing an installation of Zentyal 3.3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS since the release of Zentyal 3.3 and to be honest I'm still undecided about using it as my main email system.

I am planning on upgrading my Ubuntu 12.04.4 servers to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at some point soon but I was surprised to find the version of Zentyal in the Ubuntu 'Trusty' (14.04) repositories appears to be version 2.3.21 .

I thought Zentyal and Canonical had some sort of working arrangement in place. If so, it doesn't appear to be working well if neither can manage to get a recent version of Zentyal into the current LTS release. What's going on?

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/zentyal-core