[Kroupware] kolab Error starting up "could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon"

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 15 August 2003 00:32, mt wrote:
> as others have the same error but noone could help


>  I will start another try:
> I have installed kolab 1.0.5 on SuSe 8.1 and it compiled all without
> errors - as far as i can see.

You probably run the bootstrap script.

> After starting I get
> Login failed: generic failure at
> /kolab/lib/perl/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> could not authenticate with Cyrus IMAP daemon () at
> /kolab/etc/kolab/kolab line 439.

Did you check all the logfiles?
Is your filesystem local and not over NFS?

> For the first time, I could enter the manager password and have entered
> some users in the webinterface. But on trying to connect an imap client
> I got errors like
> perl: No worthy mechs found
>
> Now I have tried several things and probably messed things further up.
> Could anybody help pleeeeaaaseeee?
>
> PS:
>   I had postfix cyrus up and running before and just shut down their
> procs. It seemed the connection between sasl and ldap is broken - how
> can i verify that ?

I'd say just stop everything.
Watch all processes 
and restart and watch all processes to see what is started.
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