Errors during installation / unable to login

[tremor]

Hello Everybody!

I hope someone here can help me out... After installing ISPconfig I can't login using admin/admin, I just get error 101: wrong username or password. Right in the end of the installation I got the following output:

Connected successfully to MySQL server
sh: Q: No such file or directory
sh: crontab: command not found

The ISPconfig database has been created but it doesn't contain any tables.

I followed the Ubuntu perfect server guide here at how2forge.

I hope someone here can advice me what to do... I'm kind of a newbie at these things.

[falko]

What's the output of df -h? I guess your hard drive/partition does not have enough free space.

[tremor]

There's plenty of space on the disk. I get the following output from df -h:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 100G 895M 100G 1% /

So the problem seems to be something else... Can I have missed installing some package since it can't find the command 'crontab'?

[falko]

Did you install ISPConfig as root?

[tremor]

Did you install ISPConfig as root?

Yes I did. I also wrote the root login and password for the mySQL part of the installation.

[falko]

What's the output of ls -l /bin/sh?

Did you disable AppArmor?

[tremor]

What's the output of ls -l /bin/sh?

Did you disable AppArmor?

The output of ls -l /bin/sh is:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 3 15:38 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash

My system didn't come with apparmor so there was nothing for me to disable or remove. I thought maybe I might have made a mistake somewhere along the way so I started all over again on a freshly installed Ubuntu but once again I got the same errors. I'm trying to run ISPconfig on a vps-server, I don't know if that might cause some problems?

/tremor

[falko]

What kind of VPS? OpenVZ, Xen, VMware, etc?

[tremor]

What kind of VPS? OpenVZ, Xen, VMware, etc?

I rent my server space from a server company so I don't know what kind of system they run.

I noticed that the crontab package wasn't installed by default so I tried once more to install everything (this time with crontab installed...) and this time I got the following output right after I've chosen if I wanna go with http or https:

Connected successfully to MySQL server
sh: Q: No such file or directory
no crontab for root
Restarting some services...
* Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]
* Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ OK ]
* Stopping ftp server proftpd [ OK ]
* Starting ftp server proftpd [ OK ]
Starting ISPConfig system...
/root/ispconfig/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd started

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.inc.php on line 47
No results found!ISPConfig system is now up and running!

[falko]

That sounds as if the ISPConfig database didn't get installed...

What's the output of uname -a? Maybe this tells us more about the virtualization technique that is being used.

[tremor]

The output of uname -a is:

Linux GleSYS-vps 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 17:08:31 MSD 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

The ISPConfig database has been created but it doesn't contain any tables.

[falko]

The output of uname -a is:

Linux GleSYS-vps 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.028stab057.2 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 17:08:31 MSD 2008 i686 GNU/LinuxUnfortunately there's no indication of the virtualization technique in there... :(

The ISPConfig database has been created but it doesn't contain any tables.Did you type in root as the MySQL user during installation? Does the MySQL password contain any special characters?

[tremor]

Did you type in root as the MySQL user during installation? Does the MySQL password contain any special characters?

Yes, I typed in root as user. The password contains a '<', but I've never had any problems to log in using mysql -u root -p.

My Ubuntu distribution seems to differ a bit from the one used in the tutorial, I had to install the cron, iptables, telnet and telnetd packages myself and there was no apparmor to remove... Could there be that there are some other packages that I don't have that cause these problems?

[falko]

Yes, I typed in root as user. The password contains a '<', but I've never had any problems to log in using mysql -u root -p.

Can you change that to a password without any special characters and try again?

[tremor]

That did it, now everything works! :)

Thank you so much for all your help, I really appriciate it!!