[Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server

[John Watlington]

Nothing but ejabberd needs to be uninstalled.   Use the --nodeps
to force this.

Just reinstalling the package doesn't rebuild the database.
You will have to manually clean out the database before
reinstalling...

I have no experience with uninstalling xs-pkgs and xs-config.
I doubt it would reinstall cleanly...

wad

On May 14, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) wrote:

> I had already uninstalled ejabberd & xs-pkgs. xs-config also had to be
> uninstalled and reinstalled. So I had to redo a few config files prior
> to starting ejabberd. That has always worked just fine. But it took
> about ten minutes altogether.
>
> I uninstalled and reinstalled a few times to make sure I could do  
> so as
> quickly as possible.
>
> I didn't realize it would be safe to specify nodeps. If I had, there
> would have been a lot less work to reconfigure the server.
>
> I hoped that following your suggestion would be a bit less work. We  
> have
> about 1500 schools, so I am searching for the most efficient server
> management processes possible.
>
> So after reinstalling jabber and getting it behaving again, I tried
> following your suggestion and just deleting the files. That did not
> work. So I reinstalled again. This process is what I was asking a  
> bout.
>
> If we wind up with a lot of servers, I'll put together a Perl-based
> server management system.

We certainly expect to have a lot of server, and remote management
is one of the tasks that has to be handled.    This wasn't remote
management so much as a bug fix.   We have several issues with
ejabberd, and in the long term are seeking a replacement instead
of finding work-arounds.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langhoff at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:30 AM
> To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
> Cc: Server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Possible Jabber Problem on Server
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
> <ABerkowitz at schools.nyc.gov> wrote:
>>  Martin had suggested that we can just wipe out the database without
> reinstalling the package.
>>
>>  So back to the question: Can the database be wiped out and recreated
> without reinstalling?
>
> We haven't tested it :-/  (it all depends on exactly what triggers an
> empty DB setup).
>
> OTOH, we know that uninstalling/reinstalling the rpm does the trick
> reliably (so it is better than my earlier suggestion). It will remove
> the xs-pkgs package, but that won't cause any short-term problem.
> Reinstall it as well just in case for better long term behaviour ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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