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Hi,<br>
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In case this helps anyone...<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
(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).<br>
<br>
I can't access the server's IP from anywhere else on the network,
strangely.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Aaron<br>
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