[Server-devel] Newbie problems

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Varun Arora <futuregenious at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Anna,
>
> Thanks for that. Yes, I did the yum groupinstall all of them.
> Unfortunately, GNOME fails to log me in as a root or just another user. So I
> reverted back to command-line. I don't know why that instability. Maybe its
> specific to me.
>
> MySQL works well after the install. (It was just funny to have Moodle
> pre-installed without MySQL!)
>
> Varun
>

Moodle runs on PostGreSQL. I'd also suggest using XS 0.6D2, where bulk of
the issues have been fixed.

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


>
>
> 2009/7/22 Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Varun Arora <futuregenious at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc.
>>> on installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run
>>> MySQL and it did not run. It was not installed. X Windows did not seem to
>>> installed. I had checked both these during installation. I know GUI is not
>>> is not important for most network admins, but I just wanted to know why the
>>> stable installation disc does not install them even though I checked them.
>>
>>
>> I'm not on the dev team, but I've installed MySQL and X Windows on an XS.
>> Those packages are not on the XS install media, so it doesn't matter if you
>> check them during the install process.
>>
>>
>>> I did manage to download the X packages later using Yum, but that led to
>>> serious instability such as failure to login from GNOME and bad network
>>> connectivity. Had to freshly install.
>>
>>
>> Did you do yum groupinstall?  You can see which groups are available with
>> yum grouplist.  For example, you can do:
>>
>> yum groupinstall X Window System
>> yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop Environment
>> yum groupinstall MySQL Database
>>
>> Anna Schoolfield
>> Birmingham
>>
>>
>
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