[Server-devel] Newbie problems

[Varun Arora]

Thanks Sameer. I think I shall give a shot at 0.6d2. I was just told to stay
away from non-stable releases.

Varun

2009/7/22 Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>

>
>
> 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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