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Problems installing Zimbra on Debian 3.1

I followed "How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu" here (thanx for providing this howto!).

Everything goes great until halfway step 3. After I answer 'yes' to 'The system will be modified. Continue?' I get this error :

Code:

Installing packages



    zimbra-core......zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb...FAILED

###ERROR###



zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb installation failed



Installation cancelled

I downloaded the most recent Debian package from the Zimbra Sourceforge page (not corrupted). The setup is a standard clean Debian Sarge install, with correct MX-record.

I don't know where to go from this error, I couln't find a solution on the Zimbra forums or here.

Did anyone succeed installing Zimbra on Debian Sarge? Any thoughts on how I can solve this?

What's the output of

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uname -a

?
Did you try to install Zimbra as root?

What happens if you try to install zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb manually?

Code:

dpkg -i zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb

Thank you for your reply.

Quote:

Originally Posted by falko

What's the output of

Code:

uname -a

Linux h1199365.stratoserver.net 2.6.9-023stab039.1-smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 28 23:51:23 MSK 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Quote:

Did you try to install Zimbra as root?

Yes.

Quote:

What happens if you try to install zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb manually?

Code:

dpkg -i zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb

This is the output:

Code:

h1199365:/usr/src/zcs/packages# dpkg -i zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb

(Reading database ... 35363 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace zimbra-core 4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1 (using zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement zimbra-core ...

Setting up zimbra-core (4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1) ...

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/a*': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-*': No such file or directory

mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/zimbra/ssl': File exists

mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/zimbra/.ssh': File exists

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

Could not create the Java virtual machine.

dpkg: error processing zimbra-core (--install):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 zimbra-core

I just tried to install an earlier version of the zimbra debian install (zcs-4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1.tgz) but this resulted in the same installation error :

Code:

zimbra-core......zimbra-core_4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb...FAILED

###ERROR###



zimbra-core_4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb installation failed

In reply to your uname -a question.. could zimbra not be compatible with the i686 architecture?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sender

In reply to your uname -a question.. could zimbra not be compatible with the i686 architecture?

It is. I wanted to see if maybe you have a x86_64 system...

Can you delete the Zimbra directory:

Code:

rm -fr /opt/zimbra

and try the installation again from the beginning?

I deleted the Zimbra directory and tried both the ./install.sh and dpkg -i zimbra-core_4.5.3_GA_733.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb.

The first still asks if I want to upgrade (both yes and no finally end up in the same error as before). Do I need to remove more files?

The second give me this error now:

Code:

h1199365:/usr/src/zcs/packages# dpkg -i zimbra-core_4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb

(Reading database ... 35362 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace zimbra-core 4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1 (using zimbra-core_4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1_i386.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement zimbra-core ...

Setting up zimbra-core (4.5.2_GA_699.DEBIAN3.1) ...

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/a*': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/s[a-su-z]*': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/apache-tomcat-*': No such file or directory

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

Could not create the Java virtual machine.

dpkg: error processing zimbra-core (--install):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 zimbra-core

What's the output of

Code:

df -h

Quote:

Originally Posted by falko

What's the output of

Code:

df -h

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/vzfs              10G  1.6G  8.5G  16% /

tmpfs                1011M  4.0K 1011M   1% /dev/shm

Thanx for the help.

Ok, no disk space problem then. But I see you don't have any swap.
What are the output of

Code:

top

and

Code:

cat /proc/meminfo

top:

Code:

top - 16:54:48 up 4 days, 22:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Tasks:  54 total,   1 running,  53 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

Cpu(s):  0.3% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si

Mem:   2070132k total,  2003564k used,    66568k free,   132020k buffers

Swap:  3068392k total,    11712k used,  3056680k free,  1049100k cached

cat /proc/meminfo

Code:

h1199365:~# cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:      2070132 kB

MemFree:         65416 kB

Buffers:        132252 kB

Cached:        1049072 kB

SwapCached:       1944 kB

Active:        1547264 kB

Inactive:       346964 kB

HighTotal:     1178560 kB

HighFree:        17280 kB

LowTotal:       891572 kB

LowFree:         48136 kB

SwapTotal:     3068392 kB

SwapFree:      3056680 kB

Dirty:             808 kB

Writeback:           0 kB

Mapped:         814776 kB

Slab:            87728 kB

CommitLimit:   4103456 kB

Committed_AS:  2202712 kB

PageTables:       7252 kB

VmallocTotal:   106488 kB

VmallocUsed:      8856 kB

VmallocChunk:    97564 kB

It's a Strato VDS.
Can the error while installing a .deb be due to insufficient free mem? BTW: isn't there a logfile with information on the error?