[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu
Dan Scott
denials at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 12:51:51 EDT 2007
Hi Pierre:
I don't think your configuration file is at fault; I replaced the
ejabberd.cfg configuration file on my Gentoo machine with a copy of your
file, changed one setting (cobaye-ti to my own hostname), and started up
ejabberd successfully (going on to run Evergreen, etc, without any
noticeable differences).
Maybe it would be worthwhile uninstalling ejabberd and erlang, and
installing them again, then copying your configuration file into place and
registering the users? It seems that the problem you're experiencing is
entirely at the ejabberd / erlang level (which is sadly the obstacle that
ultimately caused me to give up on Ubuntu 6.10 back when I was writing the
install instructions for Ubuntu!).
Dan
On 19/10/2007, Pierre Nault <pierrenault at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning Dan,
>
> On my peregrination in the web to solve this problem, I never heard
> about these strange behaviours: you have to reveal this somewhere !
> Thankfully, Google will harvest this mailing list...
> Apart from that, these little tricks didn't help much : the ejabberd
> server is still dead calm...
> I verified the ejabberd.cfg file for syntax errors (no problem), restart
> and stop ejabberctl and then ejabberd start : still, ejabberd won't work.
> Finally I reboot the machine, did a netstat -l -n : nothing on the ports
> that ejabberd is suppose to listen. Did again the little sequence of
> commands : again nothing from ejabberd.
> This is so strange : before the capital letters problem, ejabberd was
> running nicely...
>
> So I upload the ejabberd.cfg here (http://www.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/flash_bugs/ejabberd_cfg.txt
> ).
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Pierre Nault
>
> 2007/10/18, Dan Wells <dbw2 at calvin.edu>:
> >
> > Pierre,
> >
> > I am glad (yet also amazed) that the case change fixed your registration
> > problem. I do not think you really needed to go through and change all your
> > other files and settings, but it shouldn't hurt if it was done
> > accurately. As for your recent issues, you almost certainly have some
> > syntax error in your ejabberd.cfg file (though I am not sure how it
> > worked before). You are also running into some more ejabberd (on Ubuntu at
> > least) weirdness, which I will now explain. To start ejabberd, you use the
> > command:
> >
> > sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd start
> >
> > which is fine and dandy, but it doesn't complain about syntax
> > errors! It loads an erlang process which attempts to start ejabberd, but
> > that part silently fails. You are left with a "Started" node but no running
> > server, and attempts to register an account give the long nasty erlang error
> > message you got. To make matters worse, when you are in this state, the
> > following commands:
> >
> > sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd stop
> > and
> > sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd restart
> > and
> > sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd force-reload
> >
> > NO LONGER WORK. The running node will both refuse to go down and will
> > refuse to reload the (presumably) now corrected config file.
> >
> > Thankfully, there is a solution not involving finding and killing the
> > rogue erlang process (which would work as well). For reasons I have never
> > bothered to fully look into, the following commands DO WORK:
> >
> > sudo ejabberdctl restart
> > and
> > sudo ejabberdctl stop
> >
> > !!!! So, why not just use ejabberdctl and forget about the 'ejabberd'
> > init script altogether? Well, turns out that there is no 'ejabberdctl
> > start' command. Hey, don't look at me, I didn't write it :)
> >
> >
> > That leaves us with the problem of finding your syntax error. If you
> > want to upload the ejabberd.cfg file we can all take a look, but I would
> > bet the line of the hour is the culprit:
> >
> > {hosts, ["localhost"," cobaye-ti.bib.uqam.ca"]}.
> >
> > Double check for matching " ",[ ], and { }, and also be aware that the
> > period '.' at the end is a requirement.
> >
> > Once you get ejabberd back together, I would suggest rebooting to clear
> > out any half-running parts of the system and try again. Since this is
> > obviously just a test machine, sometimes a restart is the easiest way to
> > clean the slate.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > DW
> >
> >
> >
> > >>> "Pierre Nault" <pierrenault at gmail.com> 10/18/2007 3:27 PM >>>
> > Hello Dan,
> >
> > Yes, it worked : I registered the two accounts, the upper case
> > letters
> > seems to be the problem. After registering the accounts, I tried to
> > start
> > Open SRF but it give me the same error message. Then I remembered that
> > the
> > capital letters were everywhere (opensrf.xml, opensrf_core.xml,
> > .srfsh.xml).
> > I modified these files, restart Opens SRF: same error message. I change
> > the
> > /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files, reboot the machine. After that,
> > ejabberd
> > was dead : the command sudo ejabberdctl status returned:
> > Node 'ejabberd at cobaye-ti' is started. Status: started
> > ejabberd is not running
> > Nothing on any ports (5222, 5223, 5269). Strange, as I just change the
> > capital letters. Euh.. this is an entirely new problem.
> >
> > I tried to register an account, it give me that message:
> > RPC failed on the node 'ejabberd at cobaye-ti': {'EXIT',
> > {badarg,
> > [{erlang,
> > port_control,
> >
> > [stringprep_port,
> > 1,
> > "
> > cobaye-ti.bib.uqam.ca"]},
> >
> > {stringprep,control,2},
> > {jlib,nameprep,1},
> >
> > {ejabberd_auth,
> > auth_modules,
> > 1},
> > {ejabberd_auth,
> >
> > is_user_exists,
> > 2},
> > {ejabberd_auth,
> > try_register,
> > 3},
> >
> > {ejabberd_ctl,process,1},
> > {rpc,
> >
> > '-handle_call/3-fun-0-',
> > 5}]}}
> >
> > I put the ejabberd sasl log file (
> > http://www.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/flash_bugs/sasl2.txt). Do I have to
> > reinstall Evergreen (step 20) to change the capital letters in the
> > bootstrapping database host (cobaye-TI.bib.uqam.ca) ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pierre Nault
> >
>
>
>
> --
> What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ
> donor. ~David Perry
>
--
Dan Scott
Laurentian University
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