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

Laurence Popiel lpopiel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 15:52:10 PST 2011 

Ok back to the beginning. I have the server up and running on my test box
using trunk rev 6738.

Just built my standalone server following the method I used successfully.
All went well until I tried to run the server and got this error:

It starts to load and gets to Starting server then when it gets to

 File "usr/lib/python2.6/plist.py , line 301, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError , attr
AttributeError : append

any thoughts?


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Laurence Popiel <lpopiel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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