FreeBSD 4.9 and Cpanel PROBLEMS

[vahan]

I'm losing my hair at gallactic speeds for the past 20 days.
Our company purchased 2 cpanel licenses to move from enXim to cpanel, and we've setup a transitional server running FreeBSD 4.9.

The story begins...

Followed the freebsd setup advices and instructions in the documentation and the forums threads, never got able to setup cpanel for 100% reliability... even the stable, not talking about release and edge versions...

Yesterday cpanel has released a new version of the installer instead of the old 'cpanel-freebsd4.9-install.tar.gz' and likes... Well, I'm re-installing the freebsd box from the scratch for the past 4 days now, as all latest updates broke the freebsd version of cpanel...

My today's attempt:

1. install freebsd 4.9 from the scratch, using the following machine and setttings:

Pentium4 2.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb ATA100 HD.
This machine was running openbsd for the past months flawlesly so no hardware problems.

the hard disk partitions were as follows:

200Mb /
2Gb swap
10Gb /var
5Gb /tmp
60Gb /usr

FreeBSD 4.9 installed ok, and passed all my checks. NO PROBLEMS SO FAR.

2. Downloaded cpanel-universal-install.sea from the
layer1.cpanel.net to /usr/home

3. started the install by ./cpanel-universal-install.sea

...[snip]...lots' of errors...[snip].... frontpage installation failed.....[snip]... mysql 3.23.58 being installed.. (?? was installing mysql 4.0.17 the day before with the old installer)..... another bunch of cpan libraries not being installed..... [snip][snip] "INSTALLATION COMPLETE"....

NADA.

as a result, mysql-server is not installed, fp not installed, /scripts/sysup and /scripts/upcp don't fix this.

I'm probably top 1 person submiting trouble tickets with detailed copy-pastes of the errors, but max what i get is a shell access requests, then a fast login into the box and replies that they've sent this to a higher-level technician for a review... doh...

I know that there are several successful freebsd cpanel users here, anyone can help me out to get this up and running?

PLEASE HELP

[inteltechs]

Originally posted by vahan
I'm losing my hair at gallactic speeds for the past 20 days.
Our company purchased 2 cpanel licenses to move from enXim to cpanel, and we've setup a transitional server running FreeBSD 4.9.

The story begins...

Followed the freebsd setup advices and instructions in the documentation and the forums threads, never got able to setup cpanel for 100% reliability... even the stable, not talking about release and edge versions...

Yesterday cpanel has released a new version of the installer instead of the old 'cpanel-freebsd4.9-install.tar.gz' and likes... Well, I'm re-installing the freebsd box from the scratch for the past 4 days now, as all latest updates broke the freebsd version of cpanel...

My today's attempt:

1. install freebsd 4.9 from the scratch, using the following machine and setttings:

Pentium4 2.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb ATA100 HD.
This machine was running openbsd for the past months flawlesly so no hardware problems.

the hard disk partitions were as follows:

200Mb /
2Gb swap
10Gb /var
5Gb /tmp
60Gb /usr

FreeBSD 4.9 installed ok, and passed all my checks. NO PROBLEMS SO FAR.

2. Downloaded cpanel-universal-install.sea from the
layer1.cpanel.net to /usr/home

3. started the install by ./cpanel-universal-install.sea

...[snip]...lots' of errors...[snip].... frontpage installation failed.....[snip]... mysql 3.23.58 being installed.. (?? was installing mysql 4.0.17 the day before with the old installer)..... another bunch of cpan libraries not being installed..... [snip][snip] "INSTALLATION COMPLETE"....

NADA.

as a result, mysql-server is not installed, fp not installed, /scripts/sysup and /scripts/upcp don't fix this.

I'm probably top 1 person submiting trouble tickets with detailed copy-pastes of the errors, but max what i get is a shell access requests, then a fast login into the box and replies that they've sent this to a higher-level technician for a review... doh...

I know that there are several successful freebsd cpanel users here, anyone can help me out to get this up and running?

PLEASE HELP

make sure a few things:

>>/stand/sysinstall

choose "Configure"
choose "Distributions"
hit the space bar on "src"
this will take you to the src screen then hit the space bar on "all"
hit the space bar on "exit"
hit the space bar on "ports"
Press the tab key until you highlight "Ok" and hit Enter.
Exit out of the SysInstall

cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/frontpage && make install clean

now download the lastest build for FreeBSD, I believe it's release 23


enjoy your installation.

Kevin

[vahan]

Originally posted by inteltechs
make sure a few things:

now download the lastest build for FreeBSD, I believe it's release 23


enjoy your installation.

Kevin

How do I download the latest build for FreeBSD?

http://layer1.cpanel.net/ is not listing them anymore...
only the cpanel-universal-install.sea, which is broken for freebsd....

[cpanelnick]

Originally posted by vahan
How do I download the latest build for FreeBSD?

http://layer1.cpanel.net/ is not listing them anymore...
only the cpanel-universal-install.sea, which is broken for freebsd....

The installer on layer1 has now been updated to include the V2 bsd installer.

[vahan]

Originally posted by bdraco
The installer on layer1 has now been updated to include the V2 bsd installer.

Have you tested it on the clean freebsd 4.9? should i reinstall freebsd and try again?

[vahan]

No error messages with the new updated installer until this one popped out:

                                                                             [snip]
  
cPanel Layer 2 Auto-Update Commencing                                          
                                                                               
==> Installing......|
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open "/usr/local/cpanel/perl/Fcntl/Fcntl.so"
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Cannot open "/usr/local/cpanel/perl/Fcntl/Fcntl.so"
==> Running post install scripts....rsync
rsyncing cpanel binaries
[snip]

This one isn't new, I've reported this a month ago, never got reply... Might be one of the causes of wired memory leak on freebsd 4.9

[vahan]

Originally posted by bdraco
The installer on layer1 has now been updated to include the V2 bsd installer.

Installed using it, filled several trouble tickets waiting for replies... it doesn't copy /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipaliases, and changes are not being saved in WHM...