[CalendarServer-users] Install of CalenderServer fails on Ubuntu 10.04
Laurence Popiel
lpopiel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 21:02:46 PST 2011
Thanks. That was it. fat fingers.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
> broken caldavd.plist?
>
> xmllint --valid /path/to/your/config.plist
>
> It should return nothing. If it finds an error, it will bark at you, e.g.:
>
> bash-3.2# xmllint --valid /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist > /dev/null
> /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist:35: parser error : StartTag: invalid element
> name
> <<string>icalvip.icalserver.rack</string> <!-- The hostname clients use
> when
> ^
>
> You can always try the sample (dev) config if you're unsure whether yours
> might be problematic.
>
> -dre
>
>
>
> 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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