Tearing my HAIR out with PLESK Issues

[ROnnyF]

I've been with PLESK since 2.5

I'm getting default language errors that prevent me from opening PLESK (even though the only locale in the PSA database is en-US, and it is set as the default already)

and now i'm getting qmail start errors, and guess what? PLESK doesn't provide ANY LOGGING or error information at all.

 

[ROnnyF]

This is how moronic PLESK is. Get a load of this:


Trying to unregister service /var/qmail/bin/sendmail... using /sbin/chkconfig
error reading information on service /var/qmail/bin/sendmail: No such file or directory
error reading information on service /var/qmail/bin/sendmail: No such file or directory

WARNING!
During the Unable to unregister /var/qmail/bin/sendmail using /sbin/chkconfig found some problems(see log file: /tmp/psa-qmail_1.03_cos5.build93091230.06_installing.100125.18.52.log)

Continue...

Trying to generate SSL certificates for TLS sessions... done
Trying to register service qmail... using /sbin/chkconfig
done
Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ]
Shutting down system logger: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
[root@ursaminor maildrivers]# ll /var/qmail/bin | grep sendmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 14120 Dec 29 19:07 sendmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 14120 Dec 29 19:07 sendmail.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 14120 Dec 29 19:07 sendmail.4
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9692 Jan 27 2009 sendmail-qmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 25 14:14 sendmail-qmail-working -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail-qmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root qmail 108 Mar 26 2007 sendmail-wrapper
[root@ursaminor maildrivers]#

 

[IgorG]

It is not error but just warning and you can ignore it. What is wrong with qmail? Did you checked /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog ? What is wrong there?
Also you can completely reinstall qmail with something like:

rpm -e --justdb --noscripts --nodeps --notriggers psa-mail-qc-driver psa-qmail psa-qmail-rblsmtpd

And then install it back with

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component qmail

 

[ROnnyF]

What I posted above was the same result of me removing and reinstalling PLESK many times.

 

[IgorG]

What I posted above was the same result of me removing and reinstalling PLESK many times.

What result? Warning? Once again - IT CAN BE IGNORED. How it breaks mailserver operation? Could you please provide any errors from maillog if there is something wrong with qmail operation?

 

[ROnnyF]

It can't just be ignored... qmail doesn't start

/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start comes back with a FAILED

Funny thing is, mail is working

[root@ursaminor ~]# ps waux | grep mail
qmails 3745 0.0 0.0 3848 580 ? S Jan26 0:01 qmail-send
qmaill 3747 0.0 0.0 3796 524 ? S Jan26 0:00 splogger qmail
root 3748 0.0 0.0 3836 432 ? S Jan26 0:00 qmail-lspawn | /usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir
qmailr 3749 0.0 0.0 3836 432 ? S Jan26 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 3750 0.0 0.0 3792 388 ? S Jan26 0:00 qmail-clean
root 4127 0.0 1.8 173504 58088 ? SNs Jan26 0:03 /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser --daemonize --nouser-config --helper-home-dir=/var/qmail --max-children 5 --create-prefs --virtual-config-dir=/var/qmail/mailnames/%d/%l/.spamassassin --pidfile=/var/run/spamd/spamd_full.pid --socketpath=/tmp/spamd_full.sock
qmailr 8806 0.0 0.0 33652 1192 ? S 00:37 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote.moved outfuck.com [email protected] [email protected]
root 9727 0.0 0.0 3680 272 ? Ss 00:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd -r bl.spamcop.net -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org /var/qmail/bin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin/smtp_auth /var/qmail/bin/true /var/qmail/bin/cmd5checkpw /var/qmail/bin/true
root 9743 0.0 0.0 3680 268 ? Ss 00:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd -r bl.spamcop.net -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org /var/qmail/bin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin/smtp_auth /var/qmail/bin/true /var/qmail/bin/cmd5checkpw /var/qmail/bin/true
root 9744 0.0 0.0 3680 272 ? Ss 00:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/rblsmtpd -r bl.spamcop.net -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org /var/qmail/bin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin/smtp_auth /var/qmail/bin/true /var/qmail/bin/cmd5checkpw /var/qmail/bin/true
popuser 9779 0.0 0.0 13744 784 ? S 00:49 0:00 bin/qmail-local -- popuser /var/qmail/mailnames/acornsteel.com/martha 155-martha acornsteel.com [email protected] | /usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir
root 9783 0.0 0.0 61208 756 pts/1 SN+ 00:49 0:00 grep mail



However

[root@ursaminor ~]# service qmail status
qmail-send is stopped
[root@ursaminor ~]#




Is this just a problem with the INIT script?

 

[IgorG]

What about

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailmng -s

You can also try to restart mailserver with

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailmng -o

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailmng -p

 

[ROnnyF]

[root@ursaminor ~]# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailmng -s
internal error

 

[IgorG]

Strange. Never heard about this problem for many years of work with Plesk...
I can suggest you try to switch from Qmail to Postfix MTA and back. Also you can try to find a reason with strace utility with something like:

# strace -s132 -ostrace.log /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start

and then try to find something suspicious or some errors in strace.log file. Reinstalling with force psa-qmail package also can help.

 

[atomicturtle]

Ive seen that mailmng error pop up when glibc was rootkitted. Did anything strange happen on the box in the days preceding the problems you're running in to?