Zend Server Community Edition vs Snow Leopard
After upgrading to Snow Leopard we’ve had only one real issue so far, Zend Server Community Edition didn’t want to start up. Well, technically, parts of it. The apache instance was running, by mysql and the admin interface were dead. I found this post about watchdog errors, but even after putting in the fix for lighthttpd I still wasn’t getting the services starting up. Same deal for Tony. Poking around in the startup files it looked like mysql data was owned by user 103, and the mysql scripts were trying to start as user ‘zend’, however I have no zend user on my system. I wasn’t able to find anything about it, but I figured hell, let me give it a try and create a user Zend. This is the command to run from the terminal (funky huh?):
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zend UniqueID 103
Which creates a zend user.. somewhere.. I’m not familiar with that bit of OS X magic yet. It’s not in /etc/passwd, but if you ‘ls -l /usr/local/zend/mysql’ you should see the data directory owned by zend again. Now just restart and you should be peachy:
sudo /usr/local/zend/bin/zendctl.sh restart
Works for Tony and I at least, so we figured we would share. голова болит секс голова болит секс
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 am
Cheers for this post…worked for me also. Thanks Again Gower
September 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Didn’t work for me. I still get Illegal Instruction errors.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
[...] reading around a little I found a [...]
September 18th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
how did you see it was 103?
September 19th, 2009 at 4:19 am
[...] service script to not use watchdog (which still hoses the JavaBridge), while others tried to create a new zend user. What worked for me was to replace the watchdog application. After doing that, everything [...]
September 21st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I could see it was 103 by doing an ls -l on the data directory. If there’s no username associated with the user ids for a file owner, the raw number is printed instead of the user friendly name.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Worked for me! Hope Zend will fix this issue soon. Should not be that much of a problem.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am
You might want to do a bit more for completeness.
sudo dscl . -create /Users/zend uid 103 UserShell /usr/bin/false RealName “ZendServer’s dedicated group”
- This will create a user with a bit more information and the inability to use a shell on default log in (bit of security there); along with a name so you can see why it exists. Also:
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/zend gid 103
- The installer creates a group with a matching gid. Not sure where that’s used, but I think the default installer creates that group even if the uninstaller doesn’t get rid of that group.
Found the above our running two machines side by side - one that had snow leopard on it before I installed ZendServer; and one that had snow leopard installed afterwards (which is what nuked the zend user and group)