Package: ocsinventory-server Version: 1.01-2 Severity: serious Trying to install ocs-inventory from scratch. The database is on a different computer. Several bugs cropped up, and I still not haven't gotting things working:
1) Debconf asked whether I wanted to use dbconfig for database installation or that I should check the ocsinventory /usr/share/doc directory otherwise. Well, there is no info in the ocsinventory-server documentation on how to prepare a database (which I would have preferred personally) 2) Choosing dbconfig prompted for a database administrator password. But it did not ask for the dbadmin username. The mysql root user does not have remote access on that particular server... 3) Continuing as is, debconf complained that a mysql server would be needed and if I wanted to abort/retry/ignore. As far as I could tell, it had not even done anything yet so the retry made no sense at all. And the database was to be on another host... Ignoring, things failed completely, because, well, there was no mysql running on the host ocsinventory was configuring on. 4) dpkg-reconfigure -plow could not run at this point because the package had not been configured yet. I had to dpkg-reconfigure debconf and set priority to low there in order to retry. The package could have failed gracefully and allowed reconfiguration instead. 5) I prepared a dbadmin user on the mysql server so that the package configuration could do what it had to, remotely. Trying dpkg --configure -a: this time I was prompted for host and username. Great. Still complaining about a mysql server requirement, ignore. Configuration then failed because the mysql-client command was not installed! 6) After installing the mysql-client package, configuration finally succeeded. Trying to browse http://localhost/ocsinventory/ I got an internal server error... The apache error logs showed that the application could not connect to mysql; it turned out the configuration had not granted itself permission to connect to the server remotely. 7) Fixing remote connectivity on the mysql server, the next browse attempt resulted in a "bad request" error. Apache error logs listed this: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'ocsweb.config' doesn't exist at /usr/share/perl5/Apache/Ocsinventory/Server/System.pm line 85. Now I'm stuck... KR, Filip -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (899, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ocsinventory-server depends on: ii apache2-mpm-prefork [apache2] 2.2.4-3 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD ii dbconfig-common 1.8.35 common framework for packaging dat ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii libapache-dbi-perl 1.05-1 Connect apache server to database ii libapache2-mod-perl2 2.0.2-2.4 Integration of perl with the Apach ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.42-2 Perl module for creation and manip ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.005-1 A Perl5 database interface to the ii libdbi-perl 1.53-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu ii libnet-ip-perl 1.25-2 Perl extension for manipulating IP ii libxml-simple-perl 2.16-1 Perl module for reading and writin ii ucf 3.001 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages ocsinventory-server recommends: pn ocsinventory-reports <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: ocsinventory-server/internal/skip-preseed: false ocsinventory-server/remote/newhost: gemini.qbian.local ocsinventory-server/install-error: abort ocsinventory-server/passwords-do-not-match: ocsinventory-server/upgrade-error: abort * ocsinventory-server/remote/port: 3306 * ocsinventory-server/mysql/method: tcp/ip ocsinventory-server/database-type: mysql * ocsinventory-server/db/app-user: ocs * ocsinventory-server/mysql/admin-user: mechanix * ocsinventory-server/missing-db-package-error: ignore ocsinventory-server/remove-error: abort ocsinventory-server/internal/reconfiguring: false * ocsinventory-server/dbconfig-install: true ocsinventory-server/dbconfig-upgrade: true ocsinventory-server/purge: false ocsinventory-server/upgrade-backup: true * ocsinventory-server/remote/host: gemini.qbian.local ocsinventory-server/dbconfig-reinstall: false * ocsinventory-server/db/dbname: ocsweb ocsinventory-server/dbconfig-remove: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
