On Jan 17, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:

> Ok back to the beginning. I have the server up and running on my test box 
> using trunk rev 6738.
> 
> Just built my standalone server following the method I used successfully. All 
> went well until I tried to run the server and got this error:
> 
> It starts to load and gets to Starting server then when it gets to
> 
>  File "usr/lib/python2.6/plist.py , line 301, in __getattr__
> raise AttributeError , attr
> AttributeError : append
> 
> any thoughts?

broken caldavd.plist?

xmllint --valid /path/to/your/config.plist

It should return nothing. If it finds an error, it will bark at you, e.g.:

bash-3.2# xmllint --valid /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist > /dev/null
/etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist:35: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name
    <<string>icalvip.icalserver.rack</string> <!-- The hostname clients use when
     ^

You can always try the sample (dev) config if you're unsure whether yours might 
be problematic.

-dre

> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Laurence Popiel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Finally after everyone's advise and help, I have the server up and running 
> and sharing calendars. Since I am new to all of this and even more of a 
> newbie when it comes to writing scripts, any advise on how to script server 
> startup on boot and shutdown on reboot or shutdown.
> 
> larry
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, don't run memcached as root. Are you setting UserName and GroupName in 
> caldavd.plist? These should be set to some non-root user that can be used for 
> running the various daemons. See caldavd-apple.plist for an example. You may 
> need to create a user account for this purpose, though it should be fine to 
> test it using  your personal account.
> 
> -dre
> 
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
> 
>> Well I followed the advise to use a release version 2.4 (not trunk) and 
>> found that many of the links in the run script to pkgs are broken or 
>> unavailable. I was able to repoint most of them but still to no avail.
>>  At this point I went back to trunk and was able to run the script but it 
>> too has another problem. It installs and it starts the server but it hangs 
>> on the error below and never starts the server
>> 
>>  {memcached-Default} can't run as root without the -u switch 
>> 
>>  Anyone have any ideas as to how to get either version running.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Cool, you're welcome :)
>> 
>> The responsiveness you experience on our mailing list changes from time to 
>> time, but it's been pretty good lately - glad it's helpful. It's sort of an 
>> interesting situation for us, because to date our most important target 
>> platform is Mac OS X Server, since that is where our service is bundled and 
>> sold. However, linux support is becoming more and more important, so it's 
>> great to see people picking it up and running with it out in the world.
>> 
>> This probably goes without saying, but: the most important thing to know 
>> about this and any other open source project is that the user (or 
>> administrator) is responsible for validating the configuration and making 
>> sure things are working as intended. Also, any support is usually offered on 
>> a 'best effort' basis by the community, which may or may not be good enough 
>> for business purposes. This is probably the biggest difference between our 
>> open source distribution and what you find bundled with Mac OS X Server.
>> 
>> In Cupertino, we've currently got zero inches of snow ;)
>> -dre
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks dre,
>>> it helps quite a lot. As a novice it has forced me to dive in headfirst and 
>>> learn far more than I expected. Rather pleasantly i must say. also in all 
>>> my years providing support in an enterprise environment (usual OSs for 
>>> desktop and deployment) I have never experienced a community that is as 
>>> responsive and willing helpful as your user community.
>>> So thank you for all the work you have done and the gracious time you gave 
>>> to help me.
>>> 
>>> Larry   (under 24" of snow today)
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> It's been a while since the last release, so trunk is pretty different from 
>>> the last 'stable' release. It's generally not recommended to run trunk code 
>>> in a production environment, or if you do, make sure to test it thoroughly 
>>> for your use cases. One reason that you may wish to avoid trunk code is 
>>> that long-term problems can crop up, e.g. when upgrading to the next major 
>>> version, we only support upgrades from older releases and not necessarily 
>>> development versions.
>>> 
>>> I would probably recommend testing the most recent release to see if it 
>>> does the job for you. Regarding how to actually deploy it on the production 
>>> host, the 'run' script has an 'install' method that can install the various 
>>> resources in the standard locations (e.g. /usr/local/...), however things 
>>> like process lifecycle management are left up to the administrator. I would 
>>> recommend that you do all the testing of your target release (or dev code 
>>> if you wish) on a non-production host, including the installation using run 
>>> script, and also whatever scripts you wish to use to start and stop the 
>>> service, etc.
>>> 
>>> There is not a great deal of documentation about our server outside of the 
>>> PDF for iCal Server, however this is not targeted at the open source 
>>> distribution, but rather the integrated distribution that is part of Mac OS 
>>> X Server.
>>> 
>>> The documentation (in a somewhat tattered state, unfortunately) for the 
>>> open source distribution is all located here: 
>>> http://trac.calendarserver.org/
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> -dre
>>> 
>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Now that I'm able to setup ad run the development version, where can I 
>>>> find documentation on setting up in a small network production 
>>>> environment. I'll have 8 users, three groups and 8 calendars. Does it 
>>>> install differently and point to different config files ?
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Looks like one of the externally hosted dependencies is failing to 
>>>> download... will check into it.
>>>> 
>>>> -dre
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Guy wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Likely new checkins have broken something.. it's always risky running 
>>>>> trunk..
>>>>> 
>>>>> The usual advice here is to pick a revision that works and use that... 
>>>>> either something from the released branch. Or just check out and use the 
>>>>> revision that worked for you when you where testing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --Guy
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11 Jan 2011, at 16:34, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am extremely new to Ubuntu and linux in general. I have installed 
>>>>>> Ubuntu 10.04 and followed the steps outlined in several postings. After 
>>>>>> a little trial and error I was able to set up and access the 
>>>>>> CalendarServer and configure users by modifying the accounts.xml and 
>>>>>> caldavd-dev.plist. I could connect via iCal and the two iphones in my 
>>>>>> network.
>>>>>> Since i was able to get it up and running I decided to build a server to 
>>>>>> host the Calendar Server, afp file sharing, samba and use the server for 
>>>>>> time Machine backups.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Using a pentium 4 box I installed Ubuntu 10.04 server and followed these 
>>>>>> steps:
>>>>>> 1) edit /etc/fstab to enable xattrs by adding the “user_xattr” option.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> e.g. (all on one line):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> UUID=8f2bb850-0e8f-4d81-bba5-fb93ef9b9990 /               ext4    
>>>>>> errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> after doing the above you need to reboot, or “sudo mount / -o remount”
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2) sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 3) sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-xattr python-twisted 
>>>>>> subversion curl
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 4) svn co 
>>>>>> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/trunk 
>>>>>> CalendarServer
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 5) cd CalendarServer ; ./run -s
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> when I run ./run -s i get this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Downloading libevent...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> % Total %Received % Xferd AverageSpeed    Time     Time     Time     
>>>>>> Current
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>                                                      Dload Upload      
>>>>>> Total    Spent    Left       Speed
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 0       0       0        0        0       0      0             0         
>>>>>>  --:--:--  0:40:24  --:--:--
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The previous successful install was revision 6725 and it continued and 
>>>>>> finished without a hangup.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> now it is revision 6726 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any ideas as to why it worked without a hitch 4 days ago and now I cant 
>>>>>> get any further than what you see.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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