Am 14.10.2011 18:57, schrieb Alberto Chavez:
> Hello everybody,
> I've been trying to install packetfence for over a week now, and after
> all the struggles I finally managed to install it.
> Now I am having troubles starting the packetfence service
> When I run
> service packetfence start
> the following shows up:
>
> Starting PacketFence...Checking configuration sanity...
> FATAL - please define exactly one management interace

in pf.conf you must define for 1 network card type=management.
e.g. in section
[interface eth0]
...
...
type=management
...
...

Ideally, this NIC connects to your management lan.

> FATAL - Unable to connect to your database. Please verify your
> connection settings in conf/pf.conf and make sure that it is started.

This is self-explaining, is it not?
Try to logon on the cli to your pf database using the hostname & 
credentials. Let's see whether you can log on...

> FATAL - networks.conf: Incomplete DHCP information for network 172.24.99.0

Check your networks.conf for typos. Typos are treated the same way like 
missing stuff. Refer to the pf documentation.
I had this when I configured domain_name=my.host.name instead of 
domain-name=my.host.name

> I already read back and forth the documentation, and the FAQ, and even
> the user list to see if somebody else already encounter the same proble,
> but I didn't have any luck to find anything about this topic.
> Does somebody knows what to do in order to resolve it? or can somebody
> point me to the right location to look for documentation on this?
> Thank you!
> Alberto.
>
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