[Server-devel] XS software compatibility question

Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) ABerkowitz at schools.nyc.gov
Wed May 21 13:43:39 EDT 2008


OK, the jabber is working fine. The problem was that hostname was
working correctly but hostname -s & -f were not.

I installed the idmgr with yum install idmgr.  Are there any
configuration files I need to edit?

I did manage to crash the server after updating all packages. I could
see which one it was. 

This server is running Fedora 7. If I try Fedora 8 or 9 to avoid that
incompatible package, should your packages still work?

 Thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: John Watlington [mailto:wad at laptop.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:21 PM
To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
Cc: John Watlington; Martin Langhoff; server-devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question


I don't have enough information to suggest anything, just offer
condolences and vague comments  :-)

 From your command line info I assume that you are having problems
keeping ejabberd running, not connecting or collaborating after starting
it up.

There is a brief time during startup when ejabberd is running
but the status is returned as stopped.    Other than during time,
I usually don't see ejabberd processes running while service (or
ejabberdctl) say it isn't running.  This only lasts for a minute or so.

Can you take a look at /var/log/ejabberd/sasl.log ?  Usually when
ejabberd has problems starting, the error is logged cryptically there...

wad

On May 20, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) wrote:

> I am having a problem with the ejabberd.
>
> I took the ejabberd.cfg & ejabberdctl.cfg files from a working server 
> and then changed the domain before starting ejabbered.
>
> What do you suggest?
>
> [root at localhost ~]# ejabberdctl ejabberd status Node 
> ejabberd at schoolserver is started. Status: started ejabberd is not 
> running [root at localhost ~]# ps auxxwww | grep jabber
> ejabberd  2672  0.0  0.0   1932   340 ?        S    10:32   0:00
> /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.6.1/bin/epmd -daemon
> ejabberd  3320  0.1  0.8  65200 18116 ?        Sl   10:39   0:00
> /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.6.1/bin/beam.smp -K true -- -root /usr/lib/ 
> erlang -progname erl -- -home /var/lib/ejabberd -pa 
> /usr/lib/ejabberd-2.0.0/ebin -sname ejabberd -s ejabberd -ejabberd 
> config "/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg" log_path 
> "/var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log" -sasl sasl_error_logger 
> {file,"/var/log/ejabberd/sasl.log"} -mnesia dir 
> "/var/lib/ejabberd/spool" -kernel inetrc "/etc/ejabberd/ 
> ejabberd.inetrc"
> -noshell -noinput
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Watlington [mailto:wad at laptop.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:39 PM
> To: Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect)
> Cc: John Watlington; Martin Langhoff; server-devel
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS software compatibility question
>
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Berkowitz Andrew (Project Connect) >

>> The installation was perfect with the full Fedora 7 installation.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to install all of OLPC's customizations on top of a 
>>> stock Fedora installation?
>>
>> Yes. Add the XS repositories to your yum sources, and install xs-pkgs

>> from there (which should pull all the right dependencies). I suspect 
>> it will muck up a few things, such as user accts created for 
>> processes. The kernel might also be missing those specific drivers 
>> you
>
>> need.
>
> The config file for ejabberd is in xs-config, so you will probably 
> want to replace the Fedora repos with the OLPC ones, and install 
> xs-pkgs and xs-config.
>
> (I'm thinking evil thoughts about just installing the idmgr and 
> ejabberd
> packages and grabbing the ejabberd config file from git...   Since in
> the NYC installation you provide all networking services externally!)
>
>> So I can't guarantee it will work.
> Definitely not, but I bet it will be close.
> Don't forget to reboot after installing xs-config, to trigger any 
> post-first-boot network configurations...
>
>>> How else would you suggest we proceed?
>>
>> Hmmm. As you aren't using AAs, you probably don't need ourcustom 
>> kernel. So perhaps install xs-config and then review what xs-pkgs 
>> will
>
>> pull in - you'll want to install all of that except for the custom 
>> kernel.
>
> We have no custom kernel, our repositories simply contain a freeze of 
> the Fedora 7 release/update repos at a recent date.  You are safe 
> there...
>
> Thanks for working on this!
> wad
>
>
>
>



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