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zmcontrol not command not found

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Hello,

I recently set up a new Zimbra server on Open Source, that's not active to the external world, but is being used to store archived accounts of users who are no longer here. I haven't used it in a couple of days, but when I went to log into the admin page it won't pull up at all. I can ssh to it and log in as the zimbra user, but as soon as I try to run zmcontrol start it tells me "command not found". Any ideas?
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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How do you go from root to zimbra user? Write the exact command here plz.

Once you switch to zimbra user, what's on your path? Can uou search for that command under /opt/zimbra/bin or /opt/zimbra/libexec (im not in my computer so idk where that command is exactly).
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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pup_seba wrote:How do you go from root to zimbra user? Write the exact command here plz.

Once you switch to zimbra user, what's on your path? Can uou search for that command under /opt/zimbra/bin or /opt/zimbra/libexec (im not in my computer so idk where that command is exactly).
When I try to cd to either of those directories I get "No such file or directory."
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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pup_seba wrote:How do you go from root to zimbra user? Write the exact command here plz.

Once you switch to zimbra user, what's on your path? Can uou search for that command under /opt/zimbra/bin or /opt/zimbra/libexec (im not in my computer so idk where that command is exactly).
The command I use to go to zimbra user sudo -i -u zimbra
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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Mmmm and yiu say that you were able to use this server in the past?

The fact that you can't find those folders is either because something went really wrong with your zimbra or because zimbra was installed in other path. Maybe there is a mount point and the disk where zimbra is actually installed is not mounting?

Could you share the output of
Cat /etc/fstab
mount
df -lh
Rpm -qa | grep -i zimbra
ls -lah /opt
ls -lah /opt/zimbra
cat /etc/passwd
locale
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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pup_seba wrote:Mmmm and yiu say that you were able to use this server in the past?

The fact that you can't find those folders is either because something went really wrong with your zimbra or because zimbra was installed in other path. Maybe there is a mount point and the disk where zimbra is actually installed is not mounting?

Could you share the output of
Cat /etc/fstab
mount
df -lh
Rpm -qa | grep -i zimbra
ls -lah /opt
ls -lah /opt/zimbra
cat /etc/passwd
locale
administrator@zm02:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/mapper/zm02--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=67d61a60-60b5-4426-b440-43c45b12c0ec /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/zm02--vg-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=8194292k,nr_inodes=2048573,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=1643288k,mode=755)
/dev/mapper/zm02--vg-root on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl)
lxcfs on /var/lib/lxcfs type fuse.lxcfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)
tmpfs on /run/user/118 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1643288k,mode=700,uid=118,gid=125)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1643288k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
administrator@zm02:~$ df -lh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 9.3M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/zm02--vg-root 949G 62G 844G 7% /
tmpfs 7.9G 108K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 472M 62M 386M 14% /boot
tmpfs 1.6G 16K 1.6G 1% /run/user/118
tmpfs 1.6G 4.0K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
administrator@zm02:~$ ^C
administrator@zm02:~$ sudo rpm -qa | grep -i zimbra
sudo: rpm: command not found
administrator@zm02:~$ ls -lah /opt
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 2 11:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Nov 2 11:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K Nov 12 10:38 zimbra
administrator@zm02:~$ ls -lah /opt/zimbra
total 92K
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4.0K Nov 12 10:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 2 11:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 12:02 backup
-rw-r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 233 Nov 15 16:04 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Nov 2 12:02 common
drwxrwxr-x 5 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 12 10:37 conf
-rw------- 1 root root 2.7K Nov 2 13:19 config.9392
drwxr-xr-x 13 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 12 10:37 data
drwxrwxr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 12 10:37 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 12:02 fbqueue
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 13:27 index
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1K Nov 2 13:28 .install_history
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Nov 2 12:02 jetty -> /opt/zimbra/jetty-distribution-9.3.5.v20151012
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 12 10:37 jetty-distribution-9.3.5.v20151012
drwxrwxr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 15 15:28 log
drwxrwxr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 12:02 logger
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Nov 2 12:02 mailboxd -> /opt/zimbra/jetty-distribution-9.3.5.v20151012
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 12 11:07 redolog
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4.0K Nov 2 11:58 .saveconfig
drwx------ 2 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 13:28 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x 7 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 13:19 ssl
drwxr-xr-x 4 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 15:01 store
drwxr-xr-x 21 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 2 13:26 zimlets-deployed
-rw-r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 0 Nov 2 12:02 .zmmailbox_history
-rw-r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 1.6K Nov 2 13:22 .zmprov_history
drwxr-xr-x 14 zimbra zimbra 4.0K Nov 15 15:28 zmstat
administrator@zm02:~$ sudo cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:100:102:systemd Time Synchronization,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
systemd-network:x:101:103:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd/netif:/bin/false
systemd-resolve:x:102:104:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd/resolve:/bin/false
systemd-bus-proxy:x:103:105:systemd Bus Proxy,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
syslog:x:104:108::/home/syslog:/bin/false
_apt:x:105:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
lxd:x:106:65534::/var/lib/lxd/:/bin/false
messagebus:x:107:111::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
uuidd:x:108:112::/run/uuidd:/bin/false
dnsmasq:x:109:65534:dnsmasq,,,:/var/lib/misc:/bin/false
administrator:x:1000:1000:administrator,,,:/home/administrator:/bin/bash
sshd:x:110:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
zimbra:x:999:999::/opt/zimbra:/bin/bash
postfix:x:998:998::/opt/zimbra/postfix:
avahi:x:111:117:Avahi mDNS daemon,,,:/var/run/avahi-daemon:/bin/false
colord:x:112:120:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/bin/false
geoclue:x:113:121::/var/lib/geoclue:/bin/false
pulse:x:114:122:PulseAudio daemon,,,:/var/run/pulse:/bin/false
speech-dispatcher:x:115:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech-dispatcher:/bin/false
rtkit:x:116:124:RealtimeKit,,,:/proc:/bin/false
usbmux:x:117:46:usbmux daemon,,,:/var/lib/usbmux:/bin/false
gdm:x:118:125:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false
lightdm:x:119:127:Light Display Manager:/var/lib/lightdm:/bin/false
whoopsie:x:120:129::/nonexistent:/bin/false
avahi-autoipd:x:121:130:Avahi autoip daemon,,,:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/bin/false
hplip:x:122:7:HPLIP system user,,,:/var/run/hplip:/bin/false
kernoops:x:123:65534:Kernel Oops Tracking Daemon,,,:/:/bin/false
saned:x:124:131::/var/lib/saned:/bin/false
administrator@zm02:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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Re: zmcontrol not command not found

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I'm in my phone so is kind of hard to read that output, but for what i can see.
At least libexec and bin are missing from your /opt/zimbra
Not related to your problem, but also not good, is the way you use to switch to user zimbra. Use 'su - zimbra' to load the right environment for zimbra to run without unexpected behaviors.
If rpm is not found that's because you are using some debian kind of distro? Make sure .debs are still showing as installed.

Any idea what could happen to those folders?

If no other suggestions are given, maybe you could try installing a zimbra in the same version but in another server, so you can copy both libexec and bin to your box?
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pup_seba wrote:I'm in my phone so is kind of hard to read that output, but for what i can see.
At least libexec and bin are missing from your /opt/zimbra
Not related to your problem, but also not good, is the way you use to switch to user zimbra. Use 'su - zimbra' to load the right environment for zimbra to run without unexpected behaviors.
If rpm is not found that's because you are using some debian kind of distro? Make sure .debs are still showing as installed.

Any idea what could happen to those folders?

If no other suggestions are given, maybe you could try installing a zimbra in the same version but in another server, so you can copy both libexec and bin to your box?
It looks like I'm good for now. I went back one more day on my System Restore from backups and I'm good to go now. The last thing I did before I noticed an issue was run APT purge X*

APT purge gnome*

APT install X*, gnome*

in an attempt to fix my Ubuntu GUI. I don't even care about the GUI now, I'm just glad this is back up and running. Thanks for the help!
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