[Server-devel] Fresh install of XS 0.6 -- "Moodle is disabled at the moment."

[Ben T]

This was on VirtualBox.  I'm going to try VMware and see if I run into the
same problem.

-Ben

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Ben T <benjtran at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So tonight I installed the XS 0.6 all over again but this time I didn't
> > checkbox anything.  The end result was the exact same thing.  Moodle is
> > disabled.  Please see results inline.  Thanks!
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# service pgsql-xs initdb
> > [FAILED]
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# cat /library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3/pg_log/initdb.log
> > initdb: directory "/library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3" exists but is not empty
> > If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
> > the directory "/library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3" or run initdb
> > with an argument other than "/library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3".
> > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> > "postgres".
> > This user must also own the server process.
> > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8.
> > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
> > The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# rm -rf /library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3/*
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# service pgsql-xs initdb
> > [FAILED]
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# cat /library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3/pg_log/initdb.log
> > (same as previously)
> > copying template1 to template0 ... ok
> > copying template1 to postgres ... FATAL:  could not write to file
> > "base/11511/2838": No space left on device
>
>
>
> Ben,
>
> The "No space left on device" shows up again. Is this on a real or a
> virtual machine?
>
> Sameer
>
>
> > STATEMENT:  CREATE DATABASE postgres;
> > child process exited with exit code 1
> > initdb: removing contents of data directory "/library/pgsql-xs/data-8.3"
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Martin Langhoff <
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Ben T <benjtran at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I deleted everything under /library/pgsql-xs/ but 'service pgsql-xs
> >> > initdb'
> >> > failed.  Ended up with an initdb.log file that was the same as running
> >> > 'service postgresql initdb.'
> >>
> >> That is completely bizarre. I assume that /library/pgsql-xs exists,
> >> and that you can create files there normally if you su to 'postgres',
> >> even large files.
> >>
> >> > I already checked for inodes usage yesterday.  That's not a problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> > When I installed the XS, I checkbox'd pretty
> >> > much everything that was offered (editors, db, web server, etc.) ...
> >> > would
> >> > that make a difference?
> >>
> >> That may have confused the installer -- all those things are not on
> >> the CD -- but it seems like you got your XS installed -- to
> >> confirm:are xs-pkgs and xs-config reported as installed by rpm?
> >
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# rpm -qi xs-pkgs
> > Name : xs-pkgs
> > Version : 0.10.1.g2a97d89
> > Release : 1
> > (...and a lot more info)
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# rpm -qi xs-config
> > Name : xs-config
> > Version : 0.6.0.16.g3c1e949
> > Release : 1
> > (...and a lot more info)
> >
> >>
> >> Further debugging steps...
> >>
> >>  - Is selinux enabled perhaps?
> >>   selinuxenabled && echo I am SELinux, son of HAL, you cannot open
> >> the pod bay doors or start Pg...
> >
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux
> > SELINUX=disabled
> > SELINUXTYPE=targeted
> >
> >>
> >>  - Re-run initdb, looking at what it does:
> >>     rm -fr /library/pgsql-xs
> >>     ( bash -x /etc/init.d/pgsql-xs initdb 2>&1 ) | tee initdb.log
> >
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# rm -rf /library/pgsql-xs
> > [root at schoolserver ~]# ( bash -x /etc/init.d/pgsql-xs initdb 2>&1 ) |
> tee
> > initdb.log
> > (it ended with the following:)
> > ......
> > [+ '[' color = color ']'
> > + echo -en '\033[0;31m'
> > + echo -n FAILED
> > FAILED+ '[' color = color ']'
> > + echo -en '\033[0;39m'
> > + echo -n ']'
> > ]+ echo -ne '\r'
> > + return 1
> > + script_result=1
> > + exit 1
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  - Run the init under strace - install strace and then change the line
> >> that actually starts Pg to run it under strace. It will get logged to
> >> the same pgstartup.log we are getting now. Look for the line that
> >> talks about
> >>
> >>    $SU -l postgres -c "$PGENGINE/postmarter -p ...
> >>
> >>  and add in there strace, like:
> >>
> >>    $SU -l postgres -c "/usr/bin/strace $PGENGINE/postmarter -p ...
> >>
> >> and then try to do /etc/init.d/pgsql-xs start
> >
> > I'm not familiar with network settings so my XS running on a virtual
> machine
> > doesn't seem to be connected to the internet for 'yum install strace' to
> > work. And I don't know how to transfer the strace tar file even if I have
> it
> > downloaded on the host machine where the vm is running.  When you said
> "look
> > for the line that talks about..." ... which file were you referring to?
> >
> >>
> >> I am rather curious as to what the problem is and would like to find
> >> the root cause. If it's all too much, and you'd rather reinstall and
> >> see if it's better, it's also a valid approach.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the reinstall didn't help =(
> >
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >>
> >> m
> >> --
> >>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> >>  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> >>  - ask interesting questions
> >>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
> >>  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> >
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