Fatal error 70: Cannot open calendar database

Question

When I try to start my iPlanet Calendar Server(iCS) 5.0, the following error
occurs:
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Fatal error 70: Cannot open calendar database
When this error occurs, first try to recover the database using the
"csdb" command line
utility. For more information on the
csdb utility, please
refer to the iCS 5.0 documentation at the following URL:
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http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/calendar/ics50/ag/calagxa.htm#13586
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If you are unable to recover the database using the
csdb utility, use the
following steps:
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<LI>Completely shut down the calendar server to ensure that there are no
stray calendar processes still running.
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<LI>Change directory to your iCS database directory (the default directory
on Solaris is
/var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/).
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cd /var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/
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<LI>Create a temp
directory.
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mkdir temp
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<LI>Move all of the
*.share files to the
temp directory.
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mv *.share temp/
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<LI>Restart the calendar server.
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<B>Note:</B> The *.share
files will be rebuilt upon startup.
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Answer 1

theFatal error 70: Cannot open calendar database error can occur after a migration from Netscape calendar server, using the ncs4migrate utility.
The problem can be that the log* files in the csdb folder (or wherever you put the calendar database) are not owned by the same user that runs the calendar server - commonly called icsuser.
ie.
-rw-r----- 1 root other 5499425 Jun 25 14:17 log.0000000142
will cause fatal error 70:
change the owner, thus
-rw-r----- 1 icsuser2 icsgroup2 5499425 Jun 25 14:17 log.0000000142
and it should work!
Regards,
- jd