Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Update: LDAP: new problem, database corruption???

[Izzy Blacklock]

On Monday 31 Mar 2003 12:01 am, Izzy Blacklock wrote:
> On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 11:21 pm, Izzy Blacklock wrote:
> > Well, I thought I was smooth sailing.  I'm now able to modify existing
> > ldap accounts, can give myself admin privs, and was starting to configure
> > the default and forced user preferences.  All of a sudden, I ended up
> > with this error.
> >
> > ---- 8< ----
> > Fatal Error: It appears that you have not created the database tables for
> > phpGroupWare. Click here to run setup.
> > ---- 8< ----
> >
> >
> > When I click the link I'm taken to the configure screen with the
> > following messages:
> >
> >
> > ---- 8< ----
> > Your Database is not working!
> > Make sure that your database is created and the account permissions are
> > set.
> >
> > Instructions for creating the database in PostgreSQL:
> > Start the postmaster
> > address@hidden user]# postmaster -i -D /home/[username]/[dataDir]
> > Create the empty database -
> > address@hidden user]# createdb phpgroupware
> > Or we can attempt to create the database for you:
> > ---- 8< ----
> >
> > If I click "Re-Check my database", all is well again.  Well sometimes.  I
> > just noticed that sometimes I end up looping on this page but eventually
> > it thinks all is ok again.
> >
> > I've also noticed that the link to run setup in the message above
> > sometimes points to https://192.168.10.200/iwww2/preferences/setup/
> > (iwww2 is an alias to my phpgw root).  This produces a Forbidden error
> > and is logged in apache's error log as follows:
> >
> > Directory index forbidden by rule:
> > /mnt/data/www/phpgroupware-0.9.14.002/preferences/setup/
> >
> > Auto creation of indexes is forbidden in my configuration and there is no
> > index file in this directory.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> I just found that there were 6 logged in users, all of them me.  I killed
> all the old ones off.  They were dated from earlier this afternoon. 
> Perhaps left over from past troubleshooting efforts?  Could this have
> caused the strange database problems?  I just got another error, but
> overall things seem stabler.

Sorry for not looking before I posted.  I just finished a google search and 
found several messages regarding this problem, but no solutions.  Is this a 
known issue with a solution?

...Izzy