[BlueOnyx:06987] Sundays YUM updates: List of official fixes (Updated)

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

Ok, I think we now squashed all the bugs that the CentOS team has thrown our 
way with their updates from last Sunday. New bugs are on order. ;o)

Here is a list of the problems and the known fixes:

1.) GUI refuses to let you login and/or redirects you to the initial setup 
wizard - even after sucessful login as "admin".

Solution #1: 

Reboot the box from SSH (as root: "/sbin/reboot). It'll work afterwards. After 
a massive update like this, a reboot is always a good precaution.

IF you accidentially already went through the initial setup wizard again, then 
this may have changed your servers time zone and will erase the NTP server 
settings. So be sure to check the GUI afterwards and if need be, fix the time 
zone settings again and add your desired NTP server to sync' your clock 
against it.

Solution #2: 

/etc/init.d/cced.init restart
/etc/init.d/admserv restart

THEN point your browser to http://<your-ip>:444/ , which will allow you to 
login without ending up in the wizard.

But make REALLY sure to erase everything in your browsers location bar AFTER 
the slash behind :444/, or you may still end up in the wizard.

The root cause of this problem is that one of the updates apparently 
interferes with CCE's ability to access the CODB database if the update is 
applied without reboot or without restarting CCEd. In that case CODB will 
simply start with some hard coded values, such as that it has never been set 
up for the first time.


2.) Apache no longer working right and/or refusing connections.

Solution #1: "yum clean all; yum update -y" from SSH as "root". Then reboot 
the box.

Solution #2: Run these commands as "root" from SSH:

find /etc/httpd/alias -user root -name "*.db" -exec /bin/chgrp apache {} \;');
find /etc/httpd/alias -user root -name "*.db" -exec /bin/chmod g+r {} \;'); 

(If these commands say that no files could be found, then you didn't have this 
kind of problem to begin with.)

Then either reboot, or short of that run the commands below. A reboot is 
recommended, though.

/etc/init.d/cced.init restart
/etc/init.d/admserv restart
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

The updated base-apache-* RPMs or the commands above should automatically fix 
the /etc/httpd/alias/*.db group ownerships and permissions, which now need to 
be different than before.

This list of fixes applies to both BlueOnyx and Aventurin{e}. 

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber
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