Help with Directory Services

[graystarr]

Trying to do initial setup and get this error

I am using Fedora 10

The interactive phase is complete. The script will now set up your
servers. Enter No or go Back if you want to change something.

Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]:
Creating directory server . . .
Your new DS instance 'rds' was successfully created.
Creating the configuration directory server . . .
Error: failed to open an LDAP connection to host 'rds.remedymd.com' port '389' as user 'cn=Directory Manager'. Error: unknown.
Failed to create the configuration directory server
Exiting . . .
Log file is '/tmp/setup921WDM.log'

here is the logfile
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[09/02/13:14:32:20] - [Setup] Info Are you ready to set up your servers?
[09/02/13:14:32:21] - [Setup] Info yes
[09/02/13:14:32:21] - [Setup] Info Creating directory server . . .
[09/02/13:14:32:24] - [Setup] Info Your new DS instance 'rds' was successfully created.
[09/02/13:14:32:24] - [Setup] Info Creating the configuration directory server . . .
[09/02/13:14:35:33] - [Setup] Fatal Error: failed to open an LDAP connection to host 'rds.remedymd.com' port '389' as user 'cn=Directory Manager'. Error: unknown.
[09/02/13:14:35:33] - [Setup] Fatal Failed to create the configuration directory server
[09/02/13:14:35:33] - [Setup] Fatal Exiting . . .
Log file is '/tmp/setup921WDM.log'

[ardya]

Did you ever find a resolutoin t this?

[casabe]

Hi!

I have the same problem. I am trying to setup RH Directory Server 8.2 on RH 5.5 x86_64.

Any sugestion is welcome.

Thanks

[dschledermann]

To anyone having this problem, this might save you some time:

The error message is extremely uninformative, which is a pain.

The root of problem is DNS. You must have working DNS on the server. This documentation states this, but not in detail.

Not only do normal queries have to work, but your own hostname MUST RESOLVE to your local ip-address. It is not sufficient to add the correct DNS-entries in /etc/hosts. This of course means that you need to configure named correctly.

Also, if you have already tried to make the dirsrv work before, be sure to clean out any malformed stuff the setup-tool have left behind. That is:

/etc/dirsrv/slapd-<servername>
/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-<servername>
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-<servername>
/var/lock/dirsrv/slapd-<servername>
/var/run/dirsrv/*

[casabe]

Yes, the machine could not resolve the local hostname. As soon as I fixed this, I could install and configure the Directory without problems.

Thanks.