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Title: Oh dear - no server manager panels and now no email delivery
Post by: avery on November 17, 2005, 11:40:48 PM

OK so I have to admit my 6.01+update SME has been "a bit under the weather" for a while  now.

I lost access to the server manager first - it tries to log me in, then gives ....

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

As the server was all configured OK, and everything else worked I didn't worry.....

Then it started not recovering from powercuts.  Its a 2HD raid, and hence I have to run fsck /dev/hda2 (& hdb2) several times at the file system repair console.  I can just about put up with this ...


However yesterday it stopped picking up mail (multidrop) - I'm getting the following emails ...

Cron <root@saturn> /etc/startmail
/bin/su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted


Any thoughts on how I diagnose, and sort the problem - or is a upgrade and rebuilding a new 7.0b6 box more tempting??

Title: Just found this too ...
Post by: avery on November 17, 2005, 11:45:51 PM

I'd overlooked this email before - this doesn't look good!!


Cron <root@saturn> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: error accessing /var/log/samba: No such file or directory
error: samba:1 glob failed for /var/log/samba/*.log
/etc/cron.daily/rkhunter:

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Title: Oh dear - no server manager panels and now no email delivery
Post by: kruhm on November 20, 2005, 01:57:13 PM

-carefully rebuild the raid
-/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
-/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

NOTES:
-you shouldn't be going through powercuts. Buy a UPS.
-you shouldn't have to fsck anything after it boots into the OS as SME is based on the ext3: http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/

Title: Oh dear - no server manager panels and now no email delivery
Post by: avery on November 24, 2005, 11:14:46 AM

Many thanks for the advice kruhm. The point about a UPS is well made!  

I'll follow the advice, but am puzzeled by the ext3 comment ... I'm just doing what the box is asking for at the recovery console!

I'm going to set up a second SME7, and backup info across two boxes, rather than RAID1, which seems a bit vunerable with a single point of failure.

Any other advice welcomed!

Title: Oh dear - no server manager panels and now no email delivery
Post by: avery on December 02, 2005, 05:16:45 PM

Experimenting with a second new 7.0b8 box now.  
 :-D
Anyone any thoughts on my current poorly 6.01 box issues???  :roll:

Title: Oh dear - no server manager panels and now no email delivery
Post by: kruhm on December 04, 2005, 08:28:28 PM

- Boot the box
- Wait for the SME Server splash screen
- Hit CTRL-X
- Hit tab
- Enter the [image name] single
- enter with root password
- e2fsck -y /