[Server-devel] XS_0_4 install]

[Bryan Berry]

What's more concerning to me is that ejabberd has never once worked for
me "out-of-box." I have always had to reinstall it before getting it to
work. Has anyone out there gotten ejabberd to work consistently on new
XS installs w/ reinstalling it?

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 17:13 +0545, Tony Anderson wrote:
> The problem with ejabberd turned out to be documented earlier by Bryan. 
> A slightly simpler solution works:
> 
> Ejabberd fails when the hostname has been changed. The symptom is that:
> 
> service ejabberd status
> 
> returns ejabberd not running.
> 
> Try the following to fix ejabberd:
> service ejabberd stop
> killall epmd
> rm -rf /var/lib/ejabberd/*
> service ejabberd start
> 
> Tony
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: XS_0_4 install
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:35:06 +0545
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>,  Bryan Berry 
> <bryan at olenepal.org>, server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> References: <48DA1EC5.3020804 at usa.net> 
> <46a038f90809241525t22ebb0efi6f75334516458252 at mail.gmail.com>
> 
> Today the behavior has changed a little.
> 
> First, the network problem.
> 
> The 'other host' problem turns out to be a newbie error on my part. The
> router was configured as 172.18.0.1 but labeled as 172.18.0.3. We have
> reconfigured the router to be 172.18.0.3 and the XO has access to the
> internet via the schoolserver!
> 
> The ejabberd problem persists; however, I think it may also be a newbie
> problem. I'll try to keep you posted.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tony
> 
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> >> started ejabberd:
> >>
> >>  chkconfig --level 345 ejabberd on
> >>  service ejabberd start
> >>
> >> and attempted to register admin:
> >>
> >>  ejabberdctl ejabberd register admin schoolserver.schoolnet.gov.np admin
> >>
> >> This failed with a message:
> >>
> >> RPC failed on the node admin at schoolserver.schoolnet.gov.np: nodedown
> > 
> > That's strange. The procedure is right, perhaps something went wrong
> > with the domain_config step? Does the /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg file
> > show the correct domain?
> > 
> >> The command service ejabberd status gets the same error (on timeout);
> >> however, ps -aux shows an ejabberd daemon.
> >>
> >> I then tried to set up the networks manually:
> >>
> >> ifcfg-eth0 was modified to use a static address (192.168.5.44). This seems
> >> to work ok.
> > 
> > Good.
> > 
> >> ifcfg-eth1 was modified by adding BOOTPROTO=static. This gives an error:
> >> "Error, some other host already uses 172.18.0.1."
> > 
> > Is that interface connected to anything? Any other host that would be
> > answering for that ip address? The error you mention is from doing an
> > 'arping'  to the address -
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > m
> 
> 
-- 
Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org