[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Re:RE: Ejabberd and Ubuntu

[Pierre Nault]

Good morning Dan,

    On my peregrination in the web to solve this problem, I never heard
about these strange behaviours: you have to reveal this somewhere !
Thankfully, Google will harvest this mailing list...
Apart from that, these little tricks didn't help much : the ejabberd server
is still dead calm...
I verified the ejabberd.cfg file for syntax errors (no problem), restart and
stop ejabberctl and then ejabberd start : still, ejabberd won't work.
Finally I reboot the machine, did a netstat -l -n : nothing on the ports
that ejabberd is suppose to listen. Did again the little sequence of
commands : again nothing from ejabberd.
This is so strange : before the capital letters problem, ejabberd was
running nicely...

So I upload the ejabberd.cfg here (
http://www.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/flash_bugs/ejabberd_cfg.txt).

Thanks a lot,

Pierre Nault

2007/10/18, Dan Wells <dbw2 at calvin.edu>:
>
> Pierre,
>
> I am glad (yet also amazed) that the case change fixed your registration
> problem.  I do not think you really needed to go through and change all your
> other files and settings, but it shouldn't hurt if it was done
> accurately.  As for your recent issues, you almost certainly have some
> syntax error in your ejabberd.cfg file (though I am not sure how it worked
> before).  You are also running into some more ejabberd (on Ubuntu at least)
> weirdness, which I will now explain.  To start ejabberd, you use the
> command:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd start
>
> which is fine and dandy, but it doesn't complain about syntax errors!  It
> loads an erlang process which attempts to start ejabberd, but that part
> silently fails.  You are left with a "Started" node but no running server,
> and attempts to register an account give the long nasty erlang error message
> you got.  To make matters worse, when you are in this state, the following
> commands:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd stop
> and
> sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd restart
> and
> sudo /etc/init.d/ejabberd force-reload
>
> NO LONGER WORK.  The running node will both refuse to go down and will
> refuse to reload the (presumably) now corrected config file.
>
> Thankfully, there is a solution not involving finding and killing the
> rogue erlang process (which would work as well).  For reasons I have never
> bothered to fully look into, the following commands DO WORK:
>
> sudo ejabberdctl restart
> and
> sudo ejabberdctl stop
>
> !!!!   So, why not just use ejabberdctl and forget about the 'ejabberd'
> init script altogether?  Well, turns out that there is no 'ejabberdctl
> start' command.  Hey, don't look at me, I didn't write it :)
>
>
> That leaves us with the problem of finding your syntax error.  If you want
> to upload the ejabberd.cfg file we can all take a look, but I would bet
> the line of the hour is the culprit:
>
> {hosts, ["localhost","cobaye-ti.bib.uqam.ca"]}.
>
> Double check for matching " ",[ ], and { }, and also be aware that the
> period '.' at the end is a requirement.
>
> Once you get ejabberd back together, I would suggest rebooting to clear
> out any half-running parts of the system and try again.  Since this is
> obviously just a test machine, sometimes a restart is the easiest way to
> clean the slate.
>
> Good luck,
> DW
>
>
>
> >>> "Pierre Nault" <pierrenault at gmail.com> 10/18/2007 3:27 PM >>>
> Hello Dan,
>
>       Yes, it worked : I registered the two accounts, the upper case
> letters
> seems to be the problem. After registering the accounts, I tried to start
> Open SRF but it give me the same error message. Then I remembered that the
> capital letters were everywhere (opensrf.xml, opensrf_core.xml,
> .srfsh.xml).
> I modified these files, restart Opens SRF: same error message. I change
> the
> /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files, reboot the machine. After that,
> ejabberd
> was dead : the command sudo ejabberdctl status returned:
> Node 'ejabberd at cobaye-ti' is started. Status: started
> ejabberd is not running
> Nothing on any ports (5222, 5223, 5269). Strange, as I just change the
> capital letters. Euh.. this is an entirely new problem.
>
> I tried to register an account, it give me that message:
> RPC failed on the node 'ejabberd at cobaye-ti': {'EXIT',
>                                                  {badarg,
>                                                      [{erlang,
>                                                           port_control,
>
>                                                           [stringprep_port,
>                                                            1,
>                                                            "
> cobaye-ti.bib.uqam.ca"]},
>
> {stringprep,control,2},
>                                                       {jlib,nameprep,1},
>                                                       {ejabberd_auth,
>                                                           auth_modules,
>                                                           1},
>                                                       {ejabberd_auth,
>                                                           is_user_exists,
>                                                           2},
>                                                       {ejabberd_auth,
>                                                           try_register,
>                                                           3},
>
> {ejabberd_ctl,process,1},
>                                                       {rpc,
>
> '-handle_call/3-fun-0-',
>                                                           5}]}}
>
> I put the ejabberd sasl log file (
> http://www.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/flash_bugs/sasl2.txt). Do I have to
> reinstall Evergreen (step 20) to change the capital letters in the
> bootstrapping database host (cobaye-TI.bib.uqam.ca) ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pierre Nault
>



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