calendarserver fails to start

[F. Coers]

package calendarserver fails to start.

When starting service calendar server with the default configuration (and also with a previously working config for 12.04-calendarserver 3.2), the service fails to start with the following error message:

Reading configuration from file: /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist
An error has occurred: 'list index out of range'
Please look at log file for more information.

Info:

calendarserver:
  Installed: 5.2+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 5.2+dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.2+dfsg-1 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

Log:
Log opened.
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] ControlSocket starting on '/var/run/caldavd/caldavd.sock'
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/bin/twistd", line 14, in <module>
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] run()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 642, in run
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] runApp(config)
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 380, in run
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] self.postApplication()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 193, in postApplication
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] self.startApplication(self.application)
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 390, in startApplication
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] app.startApplication(application, not self.config['no_save'])
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/app.py", line 658, in startApplication
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] service.IService(application).startService()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/service.py", line 282, in startService
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] service.startService()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/application/service.py", line 282, in startService
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] service.startService()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/txdav/base/datastore/subpostgres.py", line 505, in startService
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] initdb = self.initdb()
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/txdav/base/datastore/subpostgres.py", line 269, in initdb
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] return which(self._initdb)[0]
2014-08-25 11:21:20+0200 [-] IndexError: list index out of range

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Romain Petit (chlabelek)]

Add the following lines in your caldavd.plist:
    <key>UseDatabase</key>
    <false/>

[Patrick Bourgeois (ke5ebs)]

I am having this same issue with the same log error I have tried adding the above line suggested by Romain Petit but to no avail

Patrick

[Joachim Schwender (jschwender)]

Same issue, same error message on wily, calendarserver 5.2.2+dfsg-2ubuntu amd64, default configuration. Suggestion #2 did not help. Package is not usable.

[Battant (mparchet)]

Hello,

to solve this issue, I have upgrade my ubuntu version from ubuntu 14.04 LTS to ubuntu 15.10.

Could you fixe this issues so the calendarserver of ubuntu 14.04 LTS version could start ?

Best regards

Battant

[Battant (mparchet)]

Hello,

I have another problem with calendarserver on ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 LTS

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calendarserver/+question/291446

Thanks for your help

Best regards

Battant

[Battant (mparchet)]

Hello,

Here is my configuration :

 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
 apt-cache policy calendarserver
calendarserver:
  Installed: 7.0+dfsg-2
  Candidate: 7.0+dfsg-2
  Version table:
 *** 7.0+dfsg-2 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.0+dfsg-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.csg.uzh.ch/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

Step to reproduce :

Install the calendarserver package on ubuntu 7.0 on ubuntu 16.04 LTS and follow the REeadme file at :

/usr/share/doc/calendarserver/README.Debian

For more information see :

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calendarserver/+question/291443

Actual result :

When I enter this command in a terminal :

systemctl status calendarserver.service
● calendarserver.service - LSB: Calendar and Contacts Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/calendarserver; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since mer. 2016-04-20 10:57:58 CEST; 10h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1545 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/calendarserver start (code=exited, status=
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 512)

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomple

why is there the message ; "bad; vendor preset: enabled)"

For more information see :
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calendarserver/+question/291632

Expend result :

Calendarserver 7.0 work

Could you help me please to fix this bug ?

Tanks for your support

Best regards

Battant

[Battant (mparchet)]

Hello,

If I look the calendarserver log

calendarserver[18669]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/rand.py", line 11, in <modu
: from OpenSSL._util import (
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/_util.py", line 6, in <modu
  calendarserver[18669]: from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding import Binding

 calendarserver[18669]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openss
 calendarserver[18669]: error=-1)
 calendarserver[18669]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openss calendarserver[18669]: ffi.def_extern(name=name, **kwargs)(func)
 calendarserver[18669]: AttributeError: 'CompiledFFI' object has no attribute 'def_extern'
 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Calendar and Contacts Server.

and try this line you get this error

 sudo pip install openssl
[sudo] password for mparchet:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    from pip import main
  File "/home/mparchet/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pip.vcs import git, mercurial, subversion, bazaar # noqa
  File "/home/mparchet/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/vcs/mercurial.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pip.download import path_to_url
  File "/home/mparchet/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 39, in <module>
    from pip._vendor import requests, six
  File "/home/mparchet/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/__init__.py", line 53, in <module>
    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
  File "/home/mparchet/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 54, in <module>
    import OpenSSL.SSL
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from OpenSSL import rand, crypto, SSL
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/rand.py", line 11, in <module>
    from OpenSSL._util import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/_util.py", line 6, in <module>
    from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding import Binding
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/binding.py", line 68, in <module>
    error=-1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/binding.py", line 57, in wrapper
    ffi.def_extern(name=name, **kwargs)(func)
AttributeError: 'CompiledFFI' object has no attribute 'def_extern'

I have send a bug ticket heare ?

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/2909

Note It seems that the same problem is present on python with Homebrew on mac os x

Could you help me please to fix this issue ?

Best regards

Battant

[Battant (mparchet)]

see also bug :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1512792

Best regards

Battant