Created attachment 616196 [details] patch adding the missing directory, preventing the package from starting. Description of problem: 389-ds refuse to start on fedora 18. First, there is a issue with apache ( see https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/476 for a fix ). Then I have seen this : (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv/' for main error log And indeed, the file is not present in any package, patch attached. Next issue is with selinux : (13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:9830 I had to use setenforce 0 to have it started, so I suspect the issue is that httpd is not started under the proper label. I didn't found anything about port 9830 in selinux configuration. ( then it fail for another reason, likely the lack of servers : [Sun Sep 23 20:28:15.010799 2012] [:crit] [pid 8842:tid 3071645568] do_admserv_post_config(): unable to create AdmldapInfo AH00016: Configuration Failed
Currently, the dirsrv-admin service cannot start because of the httpd error "No MPM loaded". Manual configuration of httpd modules(which should not be required, and it has never been before) leads to the aforementrioned ":crit" with do_admserv_post_config().
This was fixed in 389-admin-1.1.31-1.fc18.1. Closing.