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

Laurence Popiel lpopiel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 08:26:20 PST 2011 

I have the trunk up and running in test mode configured and accessible from
iCal and iPhones. I  now want to put in in production.I created a dir in
/opt and followed the steps to download. When I run the ./run -i script it
appears to compile but when i run the caldavd executable it tells me that is
not installed. Am I missing something? I also tried release ver 2.4 and
fixed the dead links ut get an error on line 379 saying unbound variable so
I'm a bit lost at the moment.
Can anyone help with the proper steps to install as a service?


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Laurence Popiel <lpopiel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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