[BlueOnyx:08041] Re: Thoughts on setup

[Aaron Greenspan]

Hi again,

Once again, in case anyone cares, just to pick up where I left off in my 
last message...

It turns out that somehow in the process of getting BlueOnyx on CentOS 
6, some package related to the messagebus service or the haldaemon 
service got extremely messed up. How this happened, I'm not exactly 
sure--it might have been a dependency that yum updated, or it may have 
just been a fluke--but the net effect was notable for several reasons. 
First of all, at boot, the "Starting HAL... [FAILED]" caught my eye, 
followed by some other service down the line that depended on it. Second 
of all, after loading the last service in the list, mailman, the server 
would just sit there, even though /etc/inittab was set to runlevel 5 
(corresponding to X Windows). And most maddening of all, if I ran startx 
from the command prompt as root or admin (by switching screens using 
Alt+F2), I'd get a GUI that would not respond to input from a keyboard 
or mouse, even though /var/log/messages would clearly identify both USB 
devices as being present, or removed, in real-time.

Somehow, either by signing in as root or rebooting enough times I did 
eventually get the BlueOnyx Start-button-page loop to go away, so I was 
able to finally complete the initial set up process (which I think then 
finally changed the admin/root passwords to "blueonyx" as I'd been 
expecting from the prior day's surprise), and that probably also helped 
cement the server's IP address and DNS settings so that I could properly 
access it over the network. By killing the gnome-session process 
remotely I was able to see that X windows was complaining about things 
related to dbus, so I ended up running...

yum reinstall dbus

and

yum reinstall haldaemon

After that, running...

service messagebus restart

and

service haldaemon restart

...made everything seem to run smoothly again, meaning that I could at 
least use my keyboard and mouse in GNOME, and that the server would boot 
properly into GNOME instead of just hanging with no error. I have no 
idea where this messagebus service came from, but you would think that 
no matter what, an errant service would not kill your keyboard and mouse 
input!

Now when I go into the BlueOnyx administration screen, I have the same 
problem that I did yesterday with 5106R: I can't run phpMyAdmin. Based 
on the server logs I don't think that Apache and PHP are actually 
throwing segmentation faults as they were yesterday, but something is 
definitely wrong. The phpMyAdmin page tries to reload infinitely, and 
I've made sure that my MySQL server root password is correctly set up.

If I had to choose between debugging all of this again and doing my 
taxes, it would be a toss-up.

Aaron

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