New server setup steps make server crash?

[Freezer]

Hi,

i have installed cPanel on my server, (Fedora Core 2) and when i first login to WHM, i see on the left a wizard. When i go through the steps, after step 3? of setting quota's my server become's unreachable.

What can this be?

I still can ping the server, but ssh or cPanel ports (or any other) won't respond anymore.

( I am sorry if this is in the wrong forums)

[chirpy]

It can happen. One thing to check when you get back in is that the laus (audit) rpm is not installed:

rpm -ev laus

That can definitely cause server crashes. If that's not installed, then it could indicate a memory/fiel system/disk problem with the server, possibly in that order.

Checking /var/log/maillog for the time of the crash and/or the serial console may shed more light on the problem.

[Freezer]

root@dozer [~]# rpm -ev laus
error: package laus is not installed

So it's not installed.

I have it on 3 servers, so i can't imagine all of them have faulty hardware. They are brand new dell servers.

In /var/logs/ went through couple of logs, but nothing strange in them?

[chirpy]

That is odd. An alternative might be to run the quota setup from shell rather than through WHM so that you can keep a closer eye on what's happening:

/scripts/fixquotas

One thing to check is that usrquota is setup appropriately on the mountpoints in /etc/fstab (usually on / /usr /var and /home depending on your partitioning scheme)

[Freezer]

When i do this in ssh it goes fine:

root@dozer [/scripts]# ./fixquotas
Installing Default Quota Databases...../aquota.user..../quota.user..../boot/aquota.user..../boot/quota.user.....Done
Quotas are now on
Updating Quota Files......
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/sda3 [/] done
quotacheck: Checked 13698 directories and 150524 files


quotacheck: Scanning /dev/sda3 [/] done
quotacheck: Checked 13698 directories and 150524 files

....Done
Note: call resetquota with --useplanquotas to reset all quotas to plan defaults
Resetting quota for xxx to 0 Meg....Done

But after that last message, my server hangs. I can't do anything more after that.

[chirpy]

The last thing it does is to turn the quotas on using quotaon. You could check whether that is the issue after it comes back by running:

quotaon -av

If that hangs it, post your /etc/fstab as it may be a problem in there.

If your ftab is OK, then I suppose it could conceivably be a kernel issue and down/upgrading it might be worth a try.

[Freezer]

It gives

root@neo [/scripts]# quotaon -av
quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/sda3 [/]: Device or resource busy
quotaon: using /data/aquota.user on /dev/sdb1 [/data]: Device or resource busy

Then it hangs...

Here is my fstab:

root@dozer [~]# less /etc/fstab












LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/etc/fstab (END)

Hopefully this gives you some more information.
Here is my server info:

WHM 10.1.0 cPanel 10.2.0-S83
Fedora i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
Kernelversion 2.6

[chirpy]

That makes no sense. You only have quotas enabled on the / partition (which I presume is /dev/sda3) but it's trying to enable them on /dev/sdb1 which must be have a mount point in fstab that doesn't have usrquota enabled on it. What is /dev/sdb1? It might be an idea to remove any quota-ing on that disk and reformat it if it's just an old disk with old data on it.

[gara]

It "LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota" will be "LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota,gprquota"?