novell-named cannot access eDirectory and reports error "NWCallsInit failed with error code:-1" on startup

April 2011 Scheduled Maintenance for OES SP3 had been installed while running McAfee anti-virus software

After the installation of the April 2011 Scheduled Maintenance, novell-named started, but could not access eDirectory anymore and logged the error "NWCallsInit failed with error code:-1" just upon startup in /var/opt/novell/log/named/named.run.

Please examine the following solutions.  Both have been known to resolve the issue depending on where there issue actually lies.  Start with solution A, and if that doesn't work; move on to solution B.

Solution A:

Reset the ulimit to a 'non-unlimited' value.

# ulimit -u <value>

Then restart named

Solution B:

 

1) Stop McAfee anti virus software:

 

# rcnailsd stop

# /etc/init.d/cma stop

 

 

2) Stop novell-named:

 

# rcnovell-named stop

 

 

3) Stop novell-xregd:

 

# rcnovell-xregd stop

 

 

4) Make a backup of all files in /var/opt/novell/xtier/xregd/db

 

# tar -cjvf /tmp/xregd_backup.tar.bz /var/opt/novell/xtier/xregd/db/*

 

 

5) Remove all files from /var/opt/novell/xtier/xregd/db:

 

# rm -rf /opt/novell/xtier/xregd/db/*

 

 

6) Restore the registry:

 

# /opt/novell/xtier/bin/regutil -i /etc/opt/novell/xtier/xtier_registry.xml

 

 

7) Check if the registry has been rebuilt:

 

# ls -l /var/opt/novell/xtier/xregd/db

 

the files should be present again

 

 

8) Start novell-xregd:

 

# rcnovell-xregd start

 

 

9) Start novell-named:

 

# rcnovell-named start

 

10) Start the AV-software again

 

# /etc/init.d/cma start

# rcnailsd start