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Shibboleth Ubuntu

SP2 Installation

I switched one server from Fedora Core to Ubuntu yesterday. Shibboleth 2 SP installation is a bit more tricky under Ubuntu than Fedora Core. The packages are not available in the Ubuntu repositories, but Satya's blog serves a working howto.

failed to bind to socket

Shibboleth seemed to be working well after installation, but today it was down dumping

2009–06–23 12:51:53 ERROR Shibboleth.Listener : socket call resulted in error (2): no message 2009–06–23 12:51:53 CRIT Shibboleth.Listener : failed to bind to socket.

into the /var/log/shibboleth/shibd.log. I luckily found a solution in quite a short time. The problem was that the shibd was trying to create socket in /var/run/shibboleth directory, which did not exist. Creating it once does not help because Ubuntu removes content of /var/run/ at every reboot. To fix it this has to be added to /etc/init.d/shibd

if [ ! -e /var/run/shibboleth ]
then
   mkdir /var/run/shibboleth
fi

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2 Responses to “Shibboleth Ubuntu”

  1. Tom says:
    5. 7. 2010 at 13.43

    Thank you, I had the same problem ;-)

  2. Just van den Broecke says:
    22. 7. 2010 at 18.04

    Worked for me ! Though I used

    if [ ! -d /var/run/shibboleth ]
    then
    mkdir /var/run/shibboleth
     fi

    (-e didn't work for me somehow on Ubuntu 9.10)

    thanks for sharing!

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