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Hi again,<br>
<br>
Once again, in case anyone cares, just to pick up where I left off
in my last message...<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...<br>
<br>
yum reinstall dbus<br>
<br>
and <br>
<br>
yum reinstall haldaemon<br>
<br>
After that, running...<br>
<br>
service messagebus restart<br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
service haldaemon restart<br>
<br>
...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!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
If I had to choose between debugging all of this again and doing my
taxes, it would be a toss-up.<br>
<br>
Aaron<br>
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