cPanel initial startup fails.

[gigawiz]

i setup a server in my house for testing purposes recently and decided to try cpanel on it.

cpanel installed properly to my knowledge, but when i go to http://IP$:2086 i get the following error:

Internal Server Error

open3: exec of /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr3 ./initial_setup_wizard1 failed at cpsrvd line 6140
cpsrvd/11.25 Server at --.---.--.---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: cpsrvd/11.25 Connection: close Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:09:29 GMT 0

i have tried
/scripts/upcp --force

and yet even after rebooting it still refuses to work.
any idea of what i did wrong?

 

[WiredTree Joe]

Check the cPanel error log and see if you can get any useful information out of it:

tail -100 /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log

 

[gigawiz]

this is what i get

root@serv1532 [~]# tail -100 /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
Building global cache for cpanel...Done
[2010-07-27 01:27:27 -0400] warn [quotacheck] User file '/var/cpanel/users/root' is empty or non-existent. at /scripts/cPScript/Config/LoadCpUserFile.pm line 35
        cPScript::Config::LoadCpUserFile::load('root') called at /scripts/cPScript/Config/LoadCpUserFile.pm line 158
        cPScript::Config::LoadCpUserFile::loadcpuserfile('root') called at /scripts/quotacheck line 84
open3: exec of /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr3 ./initial_setup_wizard1 failed at cpsrvd line 6140
Internal Error: "GET /scripts3/initial_setup_wizard1 HTTP/1.1" open3: exec of /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr3 ./initial_setup_wizard1 failed at cpsrvd line 6140

root@serv1532 [~]#