[CalendarServer-users] Install of CalenderServer fails on Ubuntu 10.04

Fri Jan 14 11:43:34 PST 2011

Well I followed the advise to use a release version 2.4 (not trunk) and
found that many of the links in the run script to pkgs are broken or
unavailable. I was able to repoint most of them but still to no avail.
 At this point I went back to trunk and was able to run the script but it
too has another problem. It installs and it starts the server but it hangs
on the error below and never starts the server

 {memcached-Default} can't run as root without the -u switch

 Anyone have any ideas as to how to get either version running.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:

> Cool, you're welcome :)
>
> The responsiveness you experience on our mailing list changes from time to
> time, but it's been pretty good lately - glad it's helpful. It's sort of an
> interesting situation for us, because to date our most important target
> platform is Mac OS X Server, since that is where our service is bundled and
> sold. However, linux support is becoming more and more important, so it's
> great to see people picking it up and running with it out in the world.
>
> This probably goes without saying, but: the most important thing to know
> about this and any other open source project is that the user (or
> administrator) is responsible for validating the configuration and making
> sure things are working as intended. Also, any support is usually offered on
> a 'best effort' basis by the community, which may or may not be good enough
> for business purposes. This is probably the biggest difference between our
> open source distribution and what you find bundled with Mac OS X Server.
>
> In Cupertino, we've currently got zero inches of snow ;)
> -dre
>
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>
> Thanks dre,
> it helps quite a lot. As a novice it has forced me to dive in headfirst and
> learn far more than I expected. Rather pleasantly i must say. also in all my
> years providing support in an enterprise environment (usual OSs for desktop
> and deployment) I have never experienced a community that is as responsive
> and willing helpful as your user community.
> So thank you for all the work you have done and the gracious time you gave
> to help me.
>
> Larry   (under 24" of snow today)
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been a while since the last release, so trunk is pretty different
>> from the last 'stable' release. It's generally not recommended to run trunk
>> code in a production environment, or if you do, make sure to test it
>> thoroughly for your use cases. One reason that you may wish to avoid trunk
>> code is that long-term problems can crop up, e.g. when upgrading to the next
>> major version, we only support upgrades from older releases and not
>> necessarily development versions.
>>
>> I would probably recommend testing the most recent release to see if it
>> does the job for you. Regarding how to actually deploy it on the production
>> host, the 'run' script has an 'install' method that can install the various
>> resources in the standard locations (e.g. /usr/local/...), however things
>> like process lifecycle management are left up to the administrator. I would
>> recommend that you do all the testing of your target release (or dev code if
>> you wish) on a non-production host, including the installation using run
>> script, and also whatever scripts you wish to use to start and stop the
>> service, etc.
>>
>> There is not a great deal of documentation about our server outside of
>> the PDF for iCal Server<http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/iCal_Server_Admin_v10.6.pdf>,
>> however this is not targeted at the open source distribution, but rather the
>> integrated distribution that is part of Mac OS X Server.
>>
>> The documentation (in a somewhat tattered state, unfortunately) for the
>> open source distribution is all located here:
>> http://trac.calendarserver.org/
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> -dre
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>
>> Now that I'm able to setup ad run the development version, where can I
>> find documentation on setting up in a small network production environment.
>> I'll have 8 users, three groups and 8 calendars. Does it install differently
>> and point to different config files ?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like one of the externally hosted dependencies is failing to
>>> download... will check into it.
>>>
>>> -dre
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Guy wrote:
>>>
>>> Likely new checkins have broken something.. it's always risky running
>>> trunk..
>>>
>>> The usual advice here is to pick a revision that works and use that...
>>> either something from the released branch. Or just check out and use the
>>> revision that worked for you when you where testing.
>>>
>>> --Guy
>>>
>>> On 11 Jan 2011, at 16:34, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>
>>> I am extremely new to Ubuntu and linux in general. I have
>>> installed Ubuntu 10.04 and followed the steps outlined in several postings.
>>> After a little trial and error I was able to set up and access the
>>> CalendarServer and configure users by modifying the accounts.xml and
>>> caldavd-dev.plist. I could connect via iCal and the two iphones in my
>>> network.
>>> Since i was able to get it up and running I decided to build a server to
>>> host the Calendar Server, afp file sharing, samba and use the server for
>>> time Machine backups.
>>>
>>> Using a pentium 4 box I installed Ubuntu 10.04 server and followed these
>>> steps:
>>>
>>> 1) edit /etc/fstab to enable xattrs by adding the “user_xattr” option.
>>>
>>> e.g. (all on one line):
>>>
>>> UUID=8f2bb850-0e8f-4d81-bba5-fb93ef9b9990 /               ext4
>>> errors=remount-ro,*user_xattr* 0       1
>>>
>>> after doing the above you need to reboot, or “sudo mount / -o remount”
>>>
>>> 2) sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql
>>>
>>> 3) sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-xattr python-twisted
>>> subversion curl
>>>
>>> 4) svn co
>>> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/trunkCalendarServer
>>>
>>> 5) cd CalendarServer ; ./run -s
>>>
>>> when I run ./run -s i get this:
>>>
>>> Downloading libevent...
>>>
>>> % Total %Received % Xferd AverageSpeed    Time     Time     Time
>>> Current
>>>
>>>                                                      Dload Upload
>>>  Total    Spent    Left       Speed
>>>
>>> 0       0       0        0        0       0      0             0
>>>  --:--:--  0:40:24  --:--:--
>>>
>>>
>>> The previous successful install was revision 6725 and it continued and
>>> finished without a hangup.
>>>
>>> now it is revision 6726
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to why it worked without a hitch 4 days ago and now I cant
>>> get any further than what you see.
>>>
>>>
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