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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Can ebox run in a compact flash?

« on: July 24, 2010, 02:09:58 pm »

oops!! correct me if i'm wrong Kamillon, but SSD + swap is a bad combo, isn't it?
that for instance, i would use the CF for the eBox core system & benefit from the speed gain, but still, i would cram some decent amount of RAM (say 4GB) to minimize the need for swap, & just in case, i would still create a 2GB swap file (not a partition) & put on the HDD(s) to avoid unpleasant surprises that could arouse due to system being out of memory. eh?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Can ebox run in a compact flash?

« on: July 23, 2010, 09:18:56 pm »

sure it can, just search for ubuntu compact flash install..


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Was ebox 1.4 slow during install, up to the point that the install stopped?

« on: July 22, 2010, 09:17:38 pm »

how many of you guys are on 64bit system? i think that this might be the main cause of those symptoms..


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: **Western Digital Green EARS** HDD's

« on: July 22, 2010, 10:22:58 am »

you welcome
by the way, those HDD's are fast, so i think that it's worth the effort !


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Cannot install Ebox components

« on: July 21, 2010, 06:36:26 pm »

well, after looking into it, i think that the problem is that for some *odd* reason, the file apt-get is trying to download has been renamed!!

it should be:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.4/ubuntu/pool/main/e/ebox-mailfilter/ebox-mailfilter_1.4.40ubuntu~ppa11~hardy1_all.deb

while instead, it is:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.4/ubuntu/pool/main/e/ebox-mailfilter/ebox-mailfilter_1.4.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1_all.deb

notice the _1.4.4-0 instead of _1.4.40

did you try:

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#sudo apt-get -V update

nael

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News and Announcements / Re: First version of the new FTP module released!

« on: July 21, 2010, 06:30:42 pm »

i agree, i would like to see more features added to version 2.0, but still before that, most definitely i want version 2.0 to be as close to rock-solid stable as possible
keep up the good work eBox team.

nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Cannot install Ebox components

« on: July 21, 2010, 06:15:29 pm »

could you please provide more info regarding the system?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Firewall rules . need help

« on: July 20, 2010, 10:31:50 am »

what do you mean by unable to test?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Ubuntu server 64bits Lucid and Ebox 1.5

« on: July 20, 2010, 10:27:54 am »

if it helps, same symptoms here!

eBox team have done a great job so far, BUT a 32bit only version (for now) limits the hardware, especially for production. (sorry guys)

how about a plan to investigate it further & try to help speeding up the 64bit release?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: driver: Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.24-28-server cannot be found

« on: July 19, 2010, 09:33:23 pm »

i'm glad it worked
please, could you edit the subject of the 1st post, to include [SOLVED]


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / **Western Digital Green EARS** HDD's

« on: July 19, 2010, 06:49:22 pm »

i had some spare time to play with one of my eBox machines, which could not complete the install of any eBox version, & finally it's done!

the problem:
the installer takes forever to complete, & when it reboots to continue, it hangs on the "Pre-configuring packages" stage..

the cause:
WD's decision to move to 4K sector size http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888/2 , as with their new EARS Green series. & since i've upgraded the HDD of this machine, i could not finish any eBox install, most probably because it involves some intensive IO operations.. (DB?!)
in my case, i have the 1TB WD10EARS, which explains this weird behavior.

solution:
1. boot any live linux CD, ubuntu is fine, & manually partition the HDD(s) using fdisk with the following: (see man page for more info)

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#sudo fdisk -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdXwhere sdX is your EARS HDD(s), partition as usual save & quit.

2. reload new partition table:

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#sudo partprobe
3. use parted to verify that all partitions' start positions are @ "4 divisible" positions:

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#sudo parted /dev/sdX
(parted) unit kib
(parted) printthe output should be something like:

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Disk /dev/sda: 976762584kiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start        End           Size          Type      File system  Flags
 1      28.0kiB      106624kiB     106596kiB     primary   ext2         boot
 2      106624kiB    10599680kiB   10493056kiB   primary   ext3              
 3      10599680kiB  976757376kiB  966157696kiB  extended                    
 5      10599708kiB  12700800kiB   2101092kiB    logical   linux-swap        
 6      12700828kiB  976757376kiB  964056548kiB  logical   ext3              
note the above Start position..

4. restart the system, start the eBox/Ubuntu installer, use expert install, & when asked about partitioning the system, use manual, & just format each partition with desired FS & select appropriate mount point, & continue the install.. in other words, don't modify the partition table of the drive.


i hope this would help others

nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: An error occurred while restoring file

« on: July 19, 2010, 06:11:27 pm »

eBox version?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: My ebox server webpages takes too long to load

« on: July 19, 2010, 05:54:25 pm »

hi,
what eBox version do you have? did you use the installer or installed from Ubuntu? in case it's the later, is it 32bit or 64bit?


nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: timeouts to ebox via local lan

« on: July 18, 2010, 05:34:06 pm »

great find, sure it helps 

nael

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: [SOLVED] Traffic Shaping - Cannot choose Layer 7 Protocols from the Rules Menu

« on: July 17, 2010, 10:48:17 pm »

nice trick with kexec



nael