[Server-devel] Attempting to re-install jabber component of XS without re-installing the entire server

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Daniel Bennett <dantana at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran :
> yum --enablerepo=olpcxs-testing update
>
> It downloaded overnight and I ran the upgrade this morning.

Good...

> It both seemed to work and seemed to fail.
>
> Failure: during the install of the "kernal" module there was an I/O error
> and I believe a second failure

Hmmm. An I/O error sounds a serious problem. You can verify a
successful install of the kernel by doing:

   rpm -V kernel

it should return without printing anything (no news: good news).

> cat /etc/issue returns:
> OLPC School Server release 9-0.5.2
> Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
> is this what I should see after update?

that's normal until I formally release it :-)

> Success: The install as a whole seems to have completed successfully.

good!

> After running the update ejabberd was still crashing when I started it.

That is odd.

> The service runs now without crashing, I can ping
> schoolserver.lccnjimeta.org and 172.18.0.1 successfully
> #hostname -f returns schoolserver.lccnjimeta.org
>
> However, even though I can ping these from my laptop, I can't access the web
> based jabber interface.

The webbased interface is disabled now. No longer needed.

< I'm certain that they are communicating further,
> because when I open http://172.18.01/  (without :5280/admin) it leads me to
> a page telling me that moodle is currently disabled.

Moodle is disabled? Did you restart the machine? Can you tell us the
output of the commands below?

   service pgsql-xs status
   chkconfig --list pgsql-xs




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