[BlueOnyx:16530] BlueOnyx 5106R under Centos 5 (latest) on Qube3 - problems

[Andy McClements]

Hi All,

I'm new here so please forgive any stupidity.. for a day or two anyway ! 
It's many years since I did much system administration (which was mostly 
on Solaris), so I'm very rusty. Also apologies this message is rather 
long, I'm sure an experienced eye will scan is quite quickly.

I'm wanting to evaluate BlueOnyx, and my desired target is a Qube 3 
running Centos 5.11, using the recipe provided by David Thacker;
http://www.thackernet.com/RaQtoBX/RAQ34_to_BlueOnyx.html, which worked 
perfectly. The kernel is 2.6.16, from Davids site.

Today I installed BlueOnyx 5106R from the tarball (the only option I 
think given my odd platform), but several problems were encountered in 
the install script. Firstly, it hung at:

   Installing     : dovecot

/usr/libexec/dovecot/ssl-params was to blame, so I killed it via a 
another shell.

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2254 root      39  15  4220  824  556 R 99.5  0.3  33:27.26 ssl-params

Fortunately <CTRL-C> allowed YUM to continue with the message:

   Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package 2:dovecot-
   2.2.15-1BX04.centos5.i386
   error: %post(dovecot-2.2.15-1BX04.centos5.i386) scriptlet failed,
   exit status 127

Via Google search, there seem to be some known issues with Dovecot and 
OpenSSL but I'm not sufficiently qualified to deal with that. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100756

Following that, I saw a number of warnings similar to, and including:

    No package base-apache-locale-en available

Followed by a message about re-running YUM to resolve. Then shortly 
after some more errors and warning like:

e-ja-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch from BlueOnyx has depsolving problems
   --> Missing Dependency: base-console-locale-ja is needed by package 
base-memory-locale-ja-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch (BlueOnyx)
base-memory-locale-en-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch from BlueOnyx has 
depsolving problems
   --> Missing Dependency: base-console-locale-ja is needed by package 
base-memory-locale-en-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch (BlueOnyx)
Error: Missing Dependency: base-console-locale-ja is needed by package 
base-memory-locale-ja-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch (BlueOnyx)
Error: Missing Dependency: base-console-locale-ja is needed by package 
base-memory-locale-en-1.1.0-25BX11.centos5.noarch (BlueOnyx)
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                         package-cleanup --dupes
                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
.
.
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running 
yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
The program yum-complete-transaction is found in the yum-utils package.
.
.
No package base-apache-locale-en available.
No package base-apache-locale-ja available.
No package base-disk-locale-en available.
No package base-disk-locale-ja available.
No package base-dns-locale-en available.
No package base-dns-locale-ja available.
No package base-email-locale-en available.
No package base-email-locale-ja available.
No package base-network-locale-en available.
No package base-network-locale-ja available.
Package basesystem-8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos.noarch already installed and 
latest version
No package base-user-locale-en available.

After the install finshed I had to manually install 
'base-apache-capstone' and 'base-admserv-capstone', before checks with 
'package-cleanup --problems' was happy.

TBH I'm not sure the install was clean.. After reboot, Apache fails to 
start:

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_perl.conf:
connect: Connection refused\t(in cleanup) Could not connect to 
/usr/sausalito/cced.socket: Connection refused\n
[FAILED]

Plus, I'm seeing several errors in /var/log/messages:

Nov 22 16:00:03 q3a cced(smd)[5724]: Warning: handler 
"handlers/base/am/am_enabled.pl" does not exist

Nov 22 16:00:03 q3a cced(smd)[5724]: Warning: handler 
"handlers/base/apache/vsite_caCerts.pl" does not exist

Nov 22 17:45:12 q3a cced(smd)[3233]: Invalid type "accountname" for 
"User..name"

Nov 22 17:45:12 q3a cced(smd)[3233]: Invalid type "accountname" for 
"User..site"

Nov 22 17:45:12 q3a cced(smd)[3233]: Removing class "User"

The only cause I've found so far, for any of the above, was that 
'vsite_caCerts.pl' is MISSING from base-apache-glue-1.4.1-0BX11.centos5, 
though it is present in the 1.2.1 version.

I don't know if any of this is due to any of the recent updates. Is it 
possible to install using an older repository ?

Thanks in advance for any pointers on how to build a working BlueOnyx on 
my platform !

Andy McClements