I'm trying to get fedora-idm-console up and running on OSX, uname -a Darwin mac03.pglan.com 9.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh I've upgraded to latest JDK provided by Apple, java -version java version "1.5.0_16" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-277) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-130, mixed mode, sharing) The java upgrade causes heap-space overruns using ant; bug report here, "DirectoryScanner infinitely recurses on symlinks to parent directories" https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45499 so I've upgraded to a src-build of Ant HEAD, ant -version Apache Ant version 1.8.0alpha compiled on September 14 2008 which cures the problem. Mozilla prereqs all build cleanly. FedoraDS project's "console", "fedora-idm-console", "directoryconsole" & "admservconsole" also build cleanly. I've installed the locally built fedora-ds & fedora-admin jars locally, ls -al ~/.fedora-idm-console/jars/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2484780 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-admin-1.1.2.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 37557 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-admin-1.1.2_en.jar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-admin-1.1.jar -> fedora-admin-1.1.2.jar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-admin-1.1_en.jar -> fedora-admin-1.1.2_en.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2469020 2008-09-14 12:38 fedora-ds-1.1.2.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 54528 2008-09-14 12:38 fedora-ds-1.1.2_en.jar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-ds-1.1.jar -> fedora-ds-1.1.2.jar lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 2008-09-14 12:51 fedora-ds-1.1_en.jar -> fedora-ds-1.1.2_en.jar @ OSX shell, I launch fedora-idm-console -D 9 -f console.log and can successfully connect to FDS server running on a remote box (SLES). If, in the Fedora Management Console GUI I click through to the Servers & Applications Tab, and select the Server, I get a "Class Loader Error" dialog, "Failed to instantiate Server Object for Directory Server (fds): com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin" @ console.log, I get, ... ERROR ServerNode.createServerInstance: could not create com.netscape.management.admserv.AdminServer@fedora-admin-1.1.jar(a)cn=admin-serv-auth, cn=Fedora Administration Server, cn=Server Group, cn=fds.server.pglan.com, ou=pglan.com, o=NetscapeRoot Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.netscape.management.admserv.AdminServer ... ERROR ServerNode.createServerInstance: could not create com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin@fedora-ds-1.1.jar(a)cn=admin-serv-auth, cn=Fedora Administration Server, cn=Server Group, cn=fds.server.pglan.com, ou=pglan.com, o=NetscapeRoot Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin ... Per discussion in #fedora-ds, I've installed Eclipse, & created an Eclipse project for fedora-idm-console. Debugging the Eclipse-built fedora-idm-console jar, exec breaks as above. The stack @ break is, fedora_idm_console_jar [Java Application] com.netscape.management.client.console.Console at localhost:50411 Thread [main] (Suspended (exception ClassNotFoundException)) Launcher$AppClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String, boolean) line: 356 Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 280 Launcher$AppClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String) line: 251 Launcher$AppClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClassInternal(String) line: 374 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java (Sep 14, 2008 6:19:52 PM) Where, for reference, in "ClassLoader.class", 347: } finally { if (isChildmost) { childmostCaller.remove(); if ((c != null) && name.startsWith("org.apache.") && ( name.startsWith("org.apache.crimson.") || name.startsWith("org.apache.xalan.") || name.startsWith("org.apache.xml.") || name.startsWith("org.apache.xpath.") ) ) { 356: AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() { public Object run() { return System.setProperty("apple.lang.DisableCompatibilityClasspath", "true"); }}); } I'm *guessing* this is OSX-specific, but am unclear as yet. I'll further familiarize myself with Eclipse and the FDS code; in the meantime, any suggestions as to what the problem maybe, or further debug help would be great. I can provide additional needed output from Eclipse to as needed. Thanks.