ClearFoundation

Hi,

I have just installed ClearOS 5.1. After installation when the system is booting up, I see that the suvad has failed to start

Starting suvad: suvad[ 8318] suvad_conf_load: /etc/suvad.conf: Keyword "device-hostkey" requires a value.
suvad[ 8318] suvad_conf_load: /etc/suvad.conf: Parse error on line: 89, column: 22, byte: 0x3b
[FAILED]

What is the issue & how to resolve this?

Regads
Shann

Did you examine /etc/suvad.conf?

Line 89 should look like this (with 32 hex characters instead of my comment!)

I suspect yours looks something like this, or similar


I believe during installation "/usr/bin/mkhost.sh" should have been run to populate this field - however, I do not know enough about suvad to know whether it can be run after install, and whether running it would create even more problems or solve the problem... and even if it solves this problem, the original cause may have created other problems which this does not resolve... so there may be others to fix later...

Since it appears you are just at the beginning of the install, I assume you have nothing to loose except time - maybe try the command above, and if nothing works, start again with a reinstall?

Your call obviously... But wait first - maybe somebody else knows more about this area and will append a better response...

Hi,

I resolved the same by generating the host key. For those who are interested here it is.

1. Login into the Cleas OS system as root

2. run the following commands
mkhost.sh /etc/suvad.conf
You can cross check whether the host key has been generated or not by doing
cat /etc/suvad.conf | grep hostkey
# Mandatory device hostkey. Must be a 32 character hexadecimal string.
device-hostkey = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
then do
/etc/init.d/suvad restart
Thats it. the suvad should be working now.

Regards
Shann