Karl MacMillan wrote:

> > This largish patch makes the build and installation work on 64bit
> > machines. The only catch here is that to get a 64bit build you need to
> > set LIBDIR on make:
> >
> > make install LIBDIR=/usr/lib64
> >
> > The spec file does this correctly. I couldn't find any reliable way to
> > guess this that works both on real systems and in the almost entirely
> > empty rpm build root (you can't, for example, check for the existence
> > of /usr/lib64).

ipa-server/ipa-install/ipa-server-install

@@ -128,10 +128,15 @@ def check_existing_installation():
     yesno = raw_input("Do you wish to remove it and create a new one? [no]: ")
     if not yesno or yesno.lower()[0] != "y":
         sys.exit(1)
+
+    try:
+        run(["/sbin/service", "dirsrv", "stop"])
+    except:
+        pass
     for d in dirs:
         serverid = os.path.basename(d).split("slapd-", 1)[1]
         if serverid:
-            erase_ds_instance_data (serverid)
+            erase_ds_instance_data(serverid)
 
 def get_fqdn():
     fqdn = ""
@@ -531,4 +536,7 @@ def main():
 
     return 0
 
-main()
+try:
+    main()
+except Exception, e:
+    print "Unexpected error - see ipaserver-install.log for details:\n %s" % str(e)