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Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: ebox 1.5 on ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 strange problem
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:21:03 am »107
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: Ebox-firewall 1.5 unable to start on 10.04
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:19:57 am »109
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: error with mail on 1.5 [partially solved]
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:13:41 am »110
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: Ubuntu server 64bits Lucid and Ebox 1.5
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:12:51 am »111
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: eBox 1.5: no access to user corner
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:11:58 am »112
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: Installing version 1.5.x - from script install or other - Which trunk
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:11:24 am »113
Installation and Upgrades / MOVED: Upgrade from eBox 1.4.x to 1.5.x
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:10:07 am »114
Installation and Upgrades / A fresh install, what happened, and a printer problem
« on: June 14, 2010, 11:32:34 pm »
I just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 and eBox 1.5.
Before trying eBox, I used to run a server with no gui, but eventually got tired of having to look up commands every time I needed to change something and decided to try out eBox.
The problem was that the eBox version was older than the version I was running at the moment, and a couple of the programs I needed could not be run reliable on that old version. Especially apt-cacher ng is a program that any house or office with more than one Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu system should use! If you don't run it, install it now!
I found an alternative way of doing that part and installed eBox 1.4.x. A couple of weeks ago I decided to give the upgrade from 8.04/1.4.2 to 10.04/1.5 a try. While this worked for somethings, there were problems that I did not get any real responses to here in the forum, so I swapped the system drive and did a fresh install of 10.04/1.5.
I would say there is a good reason for doing exactly this - LVM. A lot has changed between 8.04 and 10.04 and LVM is a good enough reason to do a complete re-install. I think for the future, it would be good if eBox came with a migration tool that exported all settings, incl. LDAP if you are running the master on your server. And then, of course, just import the whole thing on a fresh server.
So far, almost everything is working well. There are a couple of logical things that could be explained better, but actually only one real problem so far.
Printing.
Brother HL-1070 - both USB and parallell.
It was only working on parallell on 1.4.2, but on 1.5 I can not get it to work on either.
What is the status of the printer sharing in 1.5?
I can install the printer. It seems like I can connect to it from my Kubuntu laptop. BUT -
Nothing ends up in the printer jobs queue. Not even the test print made through the web interface of eBox.
I hope someone will take the time to communicate a little with me regarding the printer so I know if I should file a bug. :-)
Before trying eBox, I used to run a server with no gui, but eventually got tired of having to look up commands every time I needed to change something and decided to try out eBox.
The problem was that the eBox version was older than the version I was running at the moment, and a couple of the programs I needed could not be run reliable on that old version. Especially apt-cacher ng is a program that any house or office with more than one Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu system should use! If you don't run it, install it now!
I found an alternative way of doing that part and installed eBox 1.4.x. A couple of weeks ago I decided to give the upgrade from 8.04/1.4.2 to 10.04/1.5 a try. While this worked for somethings, there were problems that I did not get any real responses to here in the forum, so I swapped the system drive and did a fresh install of 10.04/1.5.
I would say there is a good reason for doing exactly this - LVM. A lot has changed between 8.04 and 10.04 and LVM is a good enough reason to do a complete re-install. I think for the future, it would be good if eBox came with a migration tool that exported all settings, incl. LDAP if you are running the master on your server. And then, of course, just import the whole thing on a fresh server.
So far, almost everything is working well. There are a couple of logical things that could be explained better, but actually only one real problem so far.
Printing.
Brother HL-1070 - both USB and parallell.
It was only working on parallell on 1.4.2, but on 1.5 I can not get it to work on either.
What is the status of the printer sharing in 1.5?
I can install the printer. It seems like I can connect to it from my Kubuntu laptop. BUT -
Nothing ends up in the printer jobs queue. Not even the test print made through the web interface of eBox.
I hope someone will take the time to communicate a little with me regarding the printer so I know if I should file a bug. :-)
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Installation and Upgrades / Locale settings and perl problem
« on: June 12, 2010, 09:36:20 pm »
During installs and re-installs I am getting a lot of warnings about locale:
I realise I am not the typical user when it comes to these settings, so I will try to explain my needs:
I want every bit of communication to be in English. I do not want to see any bit of messages in any other language.
I want all measures etc. to be metric.
Paper should of course be A4 and in millimeter.
I want currency to be Brazilian (pt_BR).
I want everything to be UTF-8.
Dates should be displayed as Saturday 12. june 2010 (only the format). This is a typical Norwegian/Brazilian way of displaying dates. And no, I do not want either Norwegian or Brazilian Portuguese names for dates. As said above - only English LANGUAGE (can be US English).
Timezone is America/Sao Paulo and my keyboard is Norwegian.
For someone that is very into locale, this might be an easy thing to set up, but for me, it seems a bit like black magic.
One big thing that is a mystery to me is how to separate the language and the format of time. I would love to see some manuals/documents on this.
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LC_ADDRESS = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "pt_BR.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").I realise I am not the typical user when it comes to these settings, so I will try to explain my needs:
I want every bit of communication to be in English. I do not want to see any bit of messages in any other language.
I want all measures etc. to be metric.
Paper should of course be A4 and in millimeter.
I want currency to be Brazilian (pt_BR).
I want everything to be UTF-8.
Dates should be displayed as Saturday 12. june 2010 (only the format). This is a typical Norwegian/Brazilian way of displaying dates. And no, I do not want either Norwegian or Brazilian Portuguese names for dates. As said above - only English LANGUAGE (can be US English).
Timezone is America/Sao Paulo and my keyboard is Norwegian.
For someone that is very into locale, this might be an easy thing to set up, but for me, it seems a bit like black magic.
One big thing that is a mystery to me is how to separate the language and the format of time. I would love to see some manuals/documents on this.
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Installation and Upgrades / LDAP problem: Can't create ldapi connection
« on: June 12, 2010, 08:26:10 pm »
When I try to access groups or users under Samba, I get this message:
I recently upgraded from 1.4x to 1.5x and most things seems to be running ok. But things that depends on LDAP is not working.
Is there a way to jumpstart LDAP so things work?
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Trace
Can't create ldapi connection at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Ldap.pm line 175
EBox::Ldap::anonymousLdapCon('EBox::Ldap=HASH(0x21f62860)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Ldap.pm line 243
EBox::Ldap::dn('EBox::Ldap=HASH(0x21f62860)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/UsersAndGroups.pm line 338
EBox::UsersAndGroups::groupsDn('EBox::UsersAndGroups=HASH(0x224cf868)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/UsersAndGroups.pm line 1681
EBox::UsersAndGroups::groups('EBox::UsersAndGroups=HASH(0x224cf868)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/CGI/UsersAndGroups/Users.pm line 48
EBox::CGI::UsersAndGroups::Users::_process('EBox::CGI::UsersAndGroups::Users=HASH(0x234c97e0)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/CGI/Base.pm line 264
EBox::CGI::Base::run('EBox::CGI::UsersAndGroups::Users=HASH(0x234c97e0)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/CGI/Run.pm line 121
EBox::CGI::Run::run('EBox::CGI::Run', 'UsersAndGroups/Users', 'EBox') called at /usr/share/ebox/cgi/ebox.cgi line 35
ModPerl::ROOT::ModPerl::Registry::usr_share_ebox_cgi_ebox_2ecgi::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x234de948)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 204
eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 204
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::run('ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x213ba6c8)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 170
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::default_handler('ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x213ba6c8)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/Registry.pm line 31
ModPerl::Registry::handler('ModPerl::Registry', 'Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x234de948)') called at -e line 0
eval {...} called at -e line 0I recently upgraded from 1.4x to 1.5x and most things seems to be running ok. But things that depends on LDAP is not working.
Is there a way to jumpstart LDAP so things work?
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Installation and Upgrades / A separate 1.5 forum please?
« on: June 12, 2010, 08:22:17 pm »
For those of us that would like to help with testing new releases, it would be good to have a separate forum so messages do not get mixed up in here.
I might be an idea to have a subsection of the forum called Test releases/Beta and under that, you have a Ebox 1.5 folder with separate forums for installation/upgrade, administration etc.
I might be an idea to have a subsection of the forum called Test releases/Beta and under that, you have a Ebox 1.5 folder with separate forums for installation/upgrade, administration etc.
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Installation and Upgrades / [SOLVED] Upgrade from eBox 1.4.x to 1.5.x
« on: June 04, 2010, 07:58:00 am »
I have been working on upgrading my home server from 1.4.x to 1.5.x and although it has been more or less as expected with a few hiccups here and there, I still have some things left to fix. And as there will be more and more people doing this, I think it is a good thing to gather all experiences regarding this in one thread.
Has anyone worked out a good procedure for the upgrade? This is how I started:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades
There is a section about "Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Servers (Recommended)" there.
I added the eBox 1.5 ppa first as described here:
http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Document/Documentation/InstallationGuide#eBoxPlatform1.5packages
It would have been nice to be able to "deactivate" the whole eBox part, do the upgrade and then re-activate it again to avoid errors etc.
The eBox ppa got disabled during the 8.04 to 10.04 (Hardy to Lucid) upgrade, but that was expected. All 3rd party repositories get disabled now.
I still need to get ldap fixed so I can start using samba and other things that depend on it...
But the first thing I need to fix is a message I get when I do a console login. After giving username and password, I am told (after a looooooong wait) "Failed to add entry for user xxxxxxxxxx.
"
Does anyone know what this might be?
BTW - a REALLY nice feature would be an export service where you could export a complete setup for eBox to a pendrive and then just do a complete wipe and install. This would save a lot of frustration. Using a CD for the install together with the pendrive could then totally automate the setup.
Has anyone worked out a good procedure for the upgrade? This is how I started:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades
There is a section about "Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Servers (Recommended)" there.
I added the eBox 1.5 ppa first as described here:
http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Document/Documentation/InstallationGuide#eBoxPlatform1.5packages
It would have been nice to be able to "deactivate" the whole eBox part, do the upgrade and then re-activate it again to avoid errors etc.
The eBox ppa got disabled during the 8.04 to 10.04 (Hardy to Lucid) upgrade, but that was expected. All 3rd party repositories get disabled now.
I still need to get ldap fixed so I can start using samba and other things that depend on it...
But the first thing I need to fix is a message I get when I do a console login. After giving username and password, I am told (after a looooooong wait) "Failed to add entry for user xxxxxxxxxx.
"
Does anyone know what this might be?
BTW - a REALLY nice feature would be an export service where you could export a complete setup for eBox to a pendrive and then just do a complete wipe and install. This would save a lot of frustration. Using a CD for the install together with the pendrive could then totally automate the setup.
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Installation and Upgrades / Problems with shares and permissions on E-box 1.4
« on: March 05, 2010, 05:31:32 pm »
First of all - I do not use E-box as a PDC. We only use a workgroup on our little network to avoid making it more complicated than it has to be as we are mainly using Linux clients on the network.
Clients are typically Kubuntu 9.10.
I have set up several shares and have problems with permissions.
Even the personal shares gives permission problems.
Seems like you need to have administrator rights to be able to write to a share.
Linux have a pretty good permission system. E-box has simplified this to a level where it is less flexible than even Windows XP. Why?
On the personal shares, the user should have administrator permissions.
On other shares, I want to have 755 permissons - anyone with access to the share should be able to at least create files, modify them and delete them as well as creating folders, modifying them and deleting them. If they should be allowed to do this with other peoples files, I would give them administrator permissions.
Is there a simple way to correct this? Do I have to chmod and chown in a terminal to get it right?
Clients are typically Kubuntu 9.10.
I have set up several shares and have problems with permissions.
Even the personal shares gives permission problems.
Seems like you need to have administrator rights to be able to write to a share.
Linux have a pretty good permission system. E-box has simplified this to a level where it is less flexible than even Windows XP. Why?
On the personal shares, the user should have administrator permissions.
On other shares, I want to have 755 permissons - anyone with access to the share should be able to at least create files, modify them and delete them as well as creating folders, modifying them and deleting them. If they should be allowed to do this with other peoples files, I would give them administrator permissions.
Is there a simple way to correct this? Do I have to chmod and chown in a terminal to get it right?
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Installation and Upgrades / E-box 1.4 USB printer BUG - where are the devs?
« on: March 05, 2010, 03:57:54 pm »
Many people here report problems with USB printers, and it is not anything new. We have all been waiting patiently. If we needed urgent support, we would have bought it. But this is not a support issue. It is clearly a bug, and there have been a bug report filed.
The devs are nowhere to be seen. I really hope this is not typical for E-box. If you want the community to contribute, you need to put inn time to be active in the forum. You can not afford to have topics open for weeks without even a comment!
Please prove me wrong on this. E-box is the best initiative I have seen so far in this field. It would be a pity if it died because of poor support.
The devs are nowhere to be seen. I really hope this is not typical for E-box. If you want the community to contribute, you need to put inn time to be active in the forum. You can not afford to have topics open for weeks without even a comment!
Please prove me wrong on this. E-box is the best initiative I have seen so far in this field. It would be a pity if it died because of poor support.