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Installation and Upgrades / Cannot save changes - samba or DNS

« on: September 03, 2020, 01:15:32 am »

I'm having problems.

Zentyal won't save any changes to the samba or dns modules.

Here's what I got from zentyal.log today:

GlobalImpl.pm:727 EBox::GlobalImpl::saveAllModules - The following modules failed while saving their changes, their state is unknown: samba  at The following modules failed while saving their changes, their state is unknown: samba  at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/GlobalImpl.pm line 727
EBox::GlobalImpl::saveAllModules('EBox::GlobalImpl=HASH(0x55bd53ca25b8)', 'progress', 'EBox::ProgressIndicator=HASH(0x55bd4f9bd090)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Global.pm line 95
EBox::Global::AUTOLOAD('EBox::Global=HASH(0x55bd53bafcb0)', 'progress', 'EBox::ProgressIndicator=HASH(0x55bd4f9bd090)') called at /usr/share/zentyal/global-action line 32

Any ideas?

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Installation and Upgrades / Restore fails on new server

« on: August 08, 2020, 12:37:18 am »

I had to replace a server. Backed up the entire system using Clonezilla, created the partitions on the new server exactly as they were (hardware is identical) and then restored the backup onto the new server.

On attempting to boot, I get a couple of ACPI errors and then an error connecting to a data drive that holds no system files and then Ubuntu panics and puts me into a recovery mode with no networking or dns and the zentyal webadmin won't start.

Any ideas where I can even start looking for what's going on?

The hardware is identical, I know the backup is good because I've restored it to the original server before and it was fine.

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Installation and Upgrades / Update log file location

« on: August 03, 2020, 03:27:49 am »

My servers are really screwed up. I had to go back to my last good backup, from the beginning of June.

Now whenever I try to run updates, they hang, sometimes at Zentyal-samba, sometimes at zentyal-dns. When they hang, they knock out networking and DNS so I can no longer connect to the internet to download further updates or anything.

I have tried dpkg --configure -a (which also hangs) and every walk through I can find, which tell me to use --fix-missing and all of those things but nothing helps.

I want to find the log file to try to see if there is a reason the updates are failing but I don't know which log file to log at. Can anyone help?

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Installation and Upgrades / Update hangs at Zentyal-DNS EVERY TIME

« on: June 13, 2020, 06:15:44 am »

Every single time I try to update either of my servers, the update hangs while updating Zentyal-DNS.

This has happened every time there has been an update since version 6.

It doesn't matter whether I do the update from within webmin or from the command line, it's always the same. Things go swimmingly until it hits Zentyal-DNS.

It generally takes me about 4 hours trying different combinations of dpkg --configure -a and the apt-get reinstall and fix missing commands and eventually things slide on through and start working again.

Does anyone have any idea why this would happen every time? It happens on both of my servers

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Other modules / Zentyal 6.0 OpenVPN not Listening

« on: September 24, 2019, 07:36:55 pm »

I'm tearing my hair out here.

I've tried installing and reinstalling the VPN module multiple times but it doesn't appear to be listening on port 1194.

It is also writing nothing to the VPN log files. They are completely empty.

Code: [Select]

nmap -sU localhost -p 1194
Gives me:

Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-09-24 10:35 PDT
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000068s latency).
Other addresses for localhost (not scanned): ::1
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
1194/udp closed openvpn

Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong?

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Email and Groupware / How to mass add mailboxes for current users

« on: February 15, 2019, 10:35:27 pm »

Hi all,

I have just added the mail module to my Zentyal 5.1 installation here at our school.

However, I cannot find anywhere where I can create mailboxes for all of my current users without going into each account and creating them manually.

Is there a way to do this as a batch process?

Many thanks,

Peter

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Other modules / Denying DHCP leases by MAC Address

« on: February 21, 2018, 09:10:35 pm »

Hi,

I am using Zentyal server at my school and unfortunately, no matter how many times I change the WiFi password, the students always manage to find out what it is and clog up our rather slow internet connection with their phones.

I'd like to be able to find a way to deny them access to the network in a way that they can't get around and am wondering if it is possible to deny them IP Addresses through DHCP by their MAC address.

Does anyone know how this can be done, or if there is a better way of booting them off my network (or stopping them from getting on it in the first place)?

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Installation and Upgrades / Why does Server install fail right before GUI launch?

« on: June 02, 2017, 12:31:39 am »

I have been trying to install Zentyal for the first time on an HP Proliant DL380 G4.

Every time I do the install it gets seemingly all the way through then stops at a screen which says:

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1: clean, 92065/21970944 files, 2007764/87875584 blocks

I have tried changing the raid setup, wiping all partitions, using LVM and not using LVM but nothing seems to make any difference.

CTRL-ALT-F1 takes me to the command line login screen for a few seconds, then it just bounces back to this.

Does anyone have any idea whay might be going on and how I can fix it?