[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Request for installation help - OpenSRF worked initially but now fails

[Sharp, Chris]

John,

I can see this in your paste of opensrf.xml

-<hosts> 
-<localhost> 

(near the bottom of the file)

If the dashes are indeed there, they would need to be removed before opensrf.xml can be read, which would explain the "Unable to load config for host localhost" error.  Can you change those lines and try starting OpenSRF again ('osrf_ctl.sh -l -a stop_all' - wait for 5 seconds - followed by 'osrf_ctl.sh -l -a start_all')?

Let's see if the fix is that simple!

(Funny that settings_tester.pl wouldn't catch that, but perhaps it's looking for the string '<localhost>' which does exist.  Note to developers: might it be worth adding an xmllint-type check of the xml files? - note that I'm not looking at the settings_tester.pl code while writing this ;-) )

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H" <gadgetfan.john at googlemail.com>
> To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
> Cc: "Chris Sharp" <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:07:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Request for installation help - OpenSRF worked initially but now fails
> Thanks for your message.
> 
> > This is referring to the '-l' flag when running osrf_ctl.sh. For
> > example:
> >
> > osrf_ctl.sh -l -a start_all
> >
> > would be how you will want to startup your system, since you do have
> > 'localhost' as your hostname.
> 
> This is what I used. [Incidentally, when I tried typing
> perl -ENet::Domain 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn() . “\n”;'
> into the Ubuntu shell, initially there was no error but no visible
> output - I was returned straight to the command prompt. When I tried
> this again later, I persistently got "-bash: syntax error near
> unexpected token '('". There may have been problems in translating
> character sets - the right-pointing double close quote following the
> \n doesn't seem to be on my keyboard.]
> 
> >> Is there anything I can do about the error already reported in
> >> osrfsys.log? (opensrf 2011-05-09 20:10:29 [ERR
> >> :6357:osrf_settings.c:136:] Unable to load config for host
> >> localhost)
> >> This would suggest that I'm meant to have entries in one of the
> >> config
> >> files for localhost, but these are not there.
> >
> > Would you be willing/able to paste your opensrf_core.xml and
> > opensrf.xml files to http://pastebin.com/ and share the links with
> > us on list? (Be sure to remove your personal passwords from them
> > first).
> 
> Certainly. I've done this - I hope correctly. The URL shown at the top
> of the page (which I assume is the one you need) is
> http://pastebin.com/4pUVaLTG
> 
> Thanks again.

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Chris Sharp
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