[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Simplifying Ubuntu install documentation (was:Installing on Ubuntu7.10 - ejabber problem)

[Faiz Ishaq]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your prompt action. I just finished a quick first attempt. It
was quite smooth. The only glitch was finding the password for the linux
user 'postgres'. It is probably there in one of the install files but I
just changed it from 'root' to get on. There is still some problem with
the router not being connected to the network. But I have not had a chance
to double check everything and I could have made a silly mistake
somewhere. I will come back to this on Saturday.

Briefly, './autogen.sh -c /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml -u' gives a bunch
of 'router at localhost/opensrf.settings IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK!!!'
errors. Trying '/openils/bin/srfsh' yields 'Unable to bootstrap client for
requests'.

If this obviously points to something then I shall appreciate hearing
about it. Otherwise I will look further and post again on Saturday. BTW
the three opensrf processes startup cleanly.

Cheers, Faiz

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dan Scott" <denials at gmail.com>
To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List"
<open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:29:48 -0400
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Simplifying Ubuntu install documentation
(was:Installing on Ubuntu7.10 - ejabber problem)

> Okay, initial revision is complete and has been tested on a fresh
> Ubuntu VMWare image:
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installing_evergreen_1.2_on_ub
> untu_7.10
> 
> One good learning experience; if you opt to set a non-zero timeout in
> CPAN config, set it to something high like 500, or else MARC::Charset
> will time out while compiling its database of conversions and other
> modules will fail to be built as a result :)
> 
> Dan
> 
> 2008/7/28 Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com>:
> > That's awesome, Dan!
> >
> > If you could add the Mnesia spool-clearing to a troubleshooting
> > section of the wiki, I'm sure that would help lots of people out
> > (versus the current draconian "dpkg --purge ejabberd" approach).
> >
> > I'll let you know when I've updated the docs so you can wrap a Kevlar
> > vest around them - thanks a bunch!
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > 2008/7/28 Dan Wells <dbw2 at calvin.edu>:
> >> Hello Dan S.,
> >>
> >> I think this sounds like a great idea.  I know the instructions have
> not kept up with Evergreen installation best practices, but I have been
> hesitant to rewrite them, since they do (mostly) work.  Ejabberd in
> particular has always been a problem area, and I have only just
> recently realized that clearing the Mnesia spool is a quick and dirty
> way to solve many of them, but if we leave ejabberd listening at
> localhost I think the worst problems will just go away.
> >>
> >> I have already moved out the old page to the "Older Versions"
> archive and added a promise of new things to come in its place, so feel
> free to deliver on that promise when you get the chance :)  If you go
> ahead and copy over the Debian instructions and make the changes you
> already know about, I will be happy to run through with an attempted
> Ubuntu newbie mentality to help make them as bullet-proof as possible.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> DW
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> "Dan Scott" <denials at gmail.com> 7/26/2008 11:52 AM >>>
> >> Hi Dan Wells:
> >>
> >> 2008/7/26 Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com>:
> >>> Hi Faiz:
> >>>
> >>> 2008/7/26 Faiz Ishaq <Faiz at szabist.ac.ae>:
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>> Totally new to Evergreen, I am trying to get it to run on Ubuntu.
> Started
> >>>> with Edubuntu 7.10 install and carried out the steps as given in
> the
> >>>> pre-install and install text files. Everything worked fine until
> step 27,
> >>>> finalizing the OPAC, using the command:
> >>>>
> >>>> sudo -u opensrf ./autogen.sh /openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml
> >>>>
> >>>> It gives 'Unable to connect to Jabber server' errors. The ejabber
> log file
> >>>> has 'Accepted Connection' entries.
> >>>
> >>> Just a wild guess - you followed the Ubuntu install instructions
> and
> >>> changed hostnames from "localhost" to your fully-qualified domain
> name
> >>> in various configuration files (including ejabberd.cfg)?
> >>>
> >>> For what it's worth, the development team recommends keeping all of
> >>> the entries (except for the <hosts> entry in opensrf.xml) as
> >>> "localhost" unless you're dealing with a system spread over
> multiple
> >>> servers. I'll start a new thread to talk about replacing the
> existing
> >>> Ubuntu instructions.
> >>
> >> I really appreciate all of the work you did in finishing off the
> >> Ubuntu install documentation way back when - but based on the
> ongoing
> >> complications people experience using FQDN throughout various config
> >> files, would you mind horribly if I replaced the Ubuntu 7.10 install
> >> documentation with a copy of the Debian Etch install instructions,
> >> modified slightly to reflect the minor differences for Ubuntu? The
> >> primary differences would be:
> >>  * the use of Makefile.install to eliminate all of the prerequisite
> >> install steps
> >>  * keeping "localhost" throughout to simplify the network setup
> >>  * modifying the opensrf user's environment variables rather than
> >> modifying the autogen.sh and osrf_ctl.sh scripts (as the latter
> >> approach doesn't hit all of the scripts that need to be modified and
> >> is likely to be forgotten during upgrades)
> >>
> >> One benefit to the project of making the install documentation for
> >> Debian and Ubuntu consistent would be that it would help keep the
> >> configuration of the various systems "in the wild" relatively
> similar
> >> so that it would simplify our attempts to troubleshoot problems.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dan Scott
> >> Laurentian University
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dan Scott
> > Laurentian University
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University