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Installation issues / Re: Fresh Beta2 install failed

« on: December 14, 2009, 01:01:12 am »

The following is what I did:

I had been playing with the installers on several occasions over a period of about a week and my last attempt at a fresh install resulted in a good install without having to edit my interface file.  Any way, start by opening a terminal window on the core/hybrid (by pressing ctl shift f2 this will switch you to a terminal window), type cd /etc/network at the command line, and press enter.  This will change your current directory to /etc/network.  Within this directory you will find a file called interfaces.  Verify that the file needs to be edited.  Type cat interfaces.  This will display the contents of the interfaces file.  On my machine the file displayed the following:

auto lo
           iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
             address  192.168.0.104
             netmask
             gateway
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
             address 192.168.80.1
             netmask 255.255.255.0

Originally I was using a single network card in my test installation.  I have since added a second card.  This could have been part of my problem but I am not sure.  If you have no netmask or gateway entry in your interfaces file then you will need to add them.  I used vi to edit the file but it is very difficult to use if you have not used it before.  You should have pico on your system.  Type sudo pico interfaces.  Enter your password when prompted.  This will display a full screen editor that is fairly easy to use.  As you can see there was nothing entered for my netmask or gateway entries.  The ip address, in my case, was a problem since it is listed as static and it is from the range of dhcp addresses on my network.  Just add the necessary information, change the ip address if needed, save the file, and then exit the editor.  Reboot your machine. 

137

Installation issues / Re: Beta 2 pulic keys

« on: December 14, 2009, 12:53:04 am »

That is strange.  I had been playing with the installers on several occasions over a period of about a week and my last attempt at a fresh install resulted in a good install without having to edit my interface file.  Any way, start by opening a terminal window on the core/hybrid (by pressing ctl shift f2 this will switch you to a terminal window), type cd /etc/network at the command line, and press enter.  This will change your current directory to /etc/network.  Within this directory you will find a file called interfaces.  Verify that the file needs to be edited.  Type cat interfaces.  This will display the contents of the interfaces file.  On my machine the file displayed the following:

auto lo
           iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
             address  192.168.0.104
             netmask
             gateway
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
             address 192.168.80.1
             netmask 255.255.255.0

Originally I was using a single network card in my test installation.  I have since added a second card.  This could have been part of my problem but I am not sure.  If you have no netmask or gateway entry in your interfaces file then you will need to add them.  I used vi to edit the file but it is very difficult to use if you have not used it before.  You should have pico on your system.  Type sudo pico interfaces.  Enter your password when prompted.  This will display a full screen editor that is fairly easy to use.  As you can see there was nothing entered for my netmask or gateway entries.  The ip address, in my case, was a problem since it is listed as static and it is from the range of dhcp addresses on my network.  Just add the necessary information, change the ip address if needed, save the file, and then exit the editor.  Reboot your machine. 

138

Installation issues / Re: Fresh Beta2 install failed

« on: December 07, 2009, 09:12:06 pm »

Great.     Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.  I am glad I could help.

139

Installation issues / Re: Fresh Beta2 install failed

« on: December 07, 2009, 06:17:13 pm »

This may be a long shot but check your /etc/network/interface file.  My installation stopped in a similar fashion to what you are describing.  I came across some information in the wiki, unrelated to this, that mentioned that during the installation make sure that eth0 is your public facing network interface.  I checked my interface file and found that only the ip address was listed on eth0.  There was no gateway nor subnet mask listed plus the ip address was one from the range used on my routers dhcp server.  I edited the interface file and added the subnet mask and gateway information.  I then double checked the resolf.conf file to make sure it had at least one dns entry.  Once I did this I rebooted the machine and it finished the installation and the orbiter appeared.  I hope this works for you.

140

Installation issues / Re: Beta 2 pulic keys

« on: December 05, 2009, 10:03:27 pm »

Well I decided to reload my test server with Kubuntu0810 and run the beta2 installer to see how well that worked.  I will say that going this route is immensly smoother than upgrading from beta1.  The installer ran and installed as expected with no problems.  I did the reboot and eventually got to the avwizard.  I got through that and it proceeded to load the core services and seemed to fail on regenerating the orbiter.  I never got to the setup wizard.  I left it alone for quite a while on two seperate occasions.  I read something in the wiki about two network cards and making sure that eth0 is the one on the public side.  This got me to thinking since I am testing with a single card.  I know it would be better with two.  I switched to a console window, logged in, and typed ifconfig.  Nothing was returned.  I then changed directories to /etc/network and looked at the file interfaces.  The machine tried to pull an ip from my dhcp server and did not finish configuring.  It pulled just the ip made it static and did not configure the sub net mask or gateway.  I edited the interfaces file and entered an ip address that was outside my dhcp range, along with both the sub net mask and gateway.  I confirmed that my resolv.conf had a dns entry then rebooted.  Once the system started to reload the the orbiter finished regeneratiing and the setup wizard started.  I completed the setup wizard, the router has restarted, and the orbiter is regenerating.  I now have an operational test install.  So I guess that if you get to a point where the install quits and goes to a blank screen then you may want to make sure that your nic was configured completely.

141

Users / Re: Where is the wiki?

« on: December 05, 2009, 02:04:50 pm »

We are good.  Don't worry about me.  I have the attention span of a hamster.  It was forgotten 5 seconds after I replied.  Thx for taking the time to help.

142

Installation issues / Re: Beta 2 pulic keys

« on: December 04, 2009, 02:10:28 pm »

While running the upgrade I had a admin login box appear.  I entered my password and the upgrade, the end i think, quit with an error message: Sorry, the package "lmce-mythtv-scripts 2.0.0.44.09120322558" failed to install or upgrade.

Out of curiosity I ran apt-get dist-upgrade again and got the following:

dcerouter_1004839:/etc/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libmyth-0.22-0: Depends: libvdpau1 (>= 0.3) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

I believe this has already been documented but i have no time to look for it now.  Yes I know this is probably taken care of in the new install script but I don't want to lose everything i have set up so far.

143

Installation issues / Re: Beta 2 pulic keys

« on: December 04, 2009, 12:55:36 pm »

have a look at the following page  http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Building_LinuxMCE_0810  I have not tried it yet but the above suggestions did not completely work for me.

Note:  I am in the process of doing this now.  So far so good.  You will not need the entire article just the part about "Verify apt's list of repositories."  Do not add the line "deb       http://debian.slimdevices.com/ stable  main" since it seems to already be there. 
nosilla_99 pointed me in this direction.  I will report back how this worked once the upgrade completes.

144

Installation issues / Re: Beta 2 pulic keys

« on: December 04, 2009, 03:30:57 am »

I experienced that with the avenard repo

145

Developers / Re: CM15A and LinuxMCE

« on: December 01, 2009, 02:40:13 pm »

I have provided a link in the wiki article to the binary.  It is a zip file so just unzip it and put it in the directory mentioned in the article.  I have uploaded the images but not placed them in the article yet.  Hopefully I will be able to do that later in the afternoon after my work day is done.

Images have been placed in the article

146

Users / Re: Where is the wiki?

« on: December 01, 2009, 01:33:17 pm »

thx hari

The wiki is done, and the relevant people have been notified. Sometimes things take a bit longer, if you get stuff for free.

thx for the reply posde.  Not sure why you pointed out the free part.  I was not sure if anyone was aware or if I had a weird problem on my end.

Anyway thx for the response and the fix.

147

Users / Where is the wiki?

« on: December 01, 2009, 11:18:10 am »

I cannot navigate to the wiki.  Anyone else having this problem?  It has been down since yesterday sometime.  

148

Developers / Re: CM15A and LinuxMCE

« on: November 30, 2009, 11:30:14 pm »

The WIKI seems to be down.  As soon as it comes back up I will start working on the entry again.

149

Developers / Re: CM15A and LinuxMCE

« on: November 30, 2009, 09:46:53 pm »

Not a problem.  You did not disturb me.   

150

Developers / Re: CM15A and LinuxMCE

« on: November 30, 2009, 06:24:57 pm »

You are too quick for me.  Unfortunately, I have to work for a living.  I got the article in the wiki to start.  I still need to upload screenshots and create a link to where the binary will be made available for download.  I will try to complete this tonight after my work day is done.