[BlueOnyx:08040] Thoughts on setup

[Aaron Greenspan]

Hi,

In case this helps anyone...

I've spent the better part of the day (week?) trying to get BlueOnyx set 
up. I've been using Cobalt-style servers for about ten years now, so I'm 
generally familiar with their eccentricities, and I know my way around 
Linux.

I have a Sun Fire X2200 AMD-based server that I've been trying to get 
set up. First I tried CentOS 5.6 with 5106R, only to learn that it still 
uses PHP 5.1.6 and can't be upgraded in any logical fashion. So today I 
tried CentOS 6.0 with 5107R.

In both cases the ISO on the BlueOnyx web site that has CentOS bundled 
does not work for me. Both times the install process complained of 
storage errors (not enough space?), and both times the hard drives in 
question were perfectly fine. When I went to the CentOS site and 
downloaded the installer directly, I had no trouble (outside of the 
ordinary) getting the OS installed. I should note that this particular 
model of server has two SATA-I hard drive bays, which I've filled with 
identical 250GB Western Digital SATA hard drives, which map to /dev/sda 
and /dev/sdb. I'm using software RAID level 1.

Using the tarball installer on 5106R worked pretty much as expected. The 
fact that it changed the admin password to "blueonyx" at the end threw 
me for a loop for a while--I thought I had locked myself out of the 
system--but eventually I figured it out. When everything was up and 
running I noticed that any kind of MySQL request would cause the system 
to crash, which made using phpMyAdmin impossible.

The tarball installer on 5107R downloaded all the packages it was 
supposed to (or at least I think it did), and appeared to complete 
successfully, but something is clearly wrong. When I go to the server's 
IP I get the welcome page with the BlueOnyx logo and Start button, but 
when I click Start I get redirected in a loop through flow.php (part of 
Sausalito) to the login page, which immediately redirects me back to the 
welcome screen with the Start button.

(Still referring to 5107R) when I reboot the server, it gets stuck and 
"CentOS Linux 6.0" once the white loading bar has traveled all the way 
across the bottom of the screen at boot time. If I press Alt+F2, I can 
sign in at a prompt in text mode, but it's supposed to be loading GNOME 
(and it was before I installed BlueOnyx).

I can't access the server's IP from anywhere else on the network, strangely.

The reason I need this set up at all is to upgrade from a server that is 
currently running a broken version of BlueQuartz. If BlueOnyx didn't 
have the /home-must-be-a-separate-partition requirement (which I don't 
understand), I could just do a straight upgrade with the tarball 
installer, but of course that's not possible.

I'll keep messing with it, but generally speaking, getting this set up 
as been as much of a nightmare as always. I was hoping that in ten years 
some progress on usability might have been made, and I realize a lot of 
work has gone into keeping things going, but it's clear that there's 
much still to be done.

Aaron

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Think Computer Corporation <http://www.thinkcomputer.com> 	

*Aaron Greenspan*
President & CEO
Think Computer Corporation

/telephone/ +1 415 670 9350
/toll free/ +1 888 815 8599
/fax/ +1 415 373 3959
/e-mail/ aarong at thinkcomputer.com
/web/ http://www.thinkcomputer.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/attachments/20110809/d98a066d/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: think.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 1806 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/attachments/20110809/d98a066d/attachment.gif>