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

Sat Jan 15 21:35:30 PST 2011

Finally after everyone's advise and help, I have the server up and running
and sharing calendars. Since I am new to all of this and even more of a
newbie when it comes to writing scripts, any advise on how to script server
startup on boot and shutdown on reboot or shutdown.

larry

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:

> Well, don't run memcached as root. Are you setting UserName and GroupName
> in caldavd.plist? These should be set to some non-root user that can be used
> for running the various daemons. See caldavd-apple.plist for an example. You
> may need to create a user account for this purpose, though it should be fine
> to test it using  your personal account.
>
> -dre
>
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>
> 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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