Hello, Paul. Thank you so much for saving my time. You're a genius. I failed to google on this error. I had defaulted MySQL my.cnf to use UTF8. I removed those settings. I got OpsView installed ok now.
PE. ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Opsview Users <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, July 11, 2010 1:10:46 AM Subject: Re: [opsview-users] OpsView 3.7.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.5 Installation Failed Miserably http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6604 Bug is mysql - which has a workaround (Ton, Duns?) Thanks > Hello, room. > > > I had no luck in getting the opsview 3.7.2 installed on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.5 > using > > this instruction https://docs.opsview.com/doku.php?id=opsview:apt > > I did apt-get install opsview. It prompted for the opsview db & mysql root > password. I supplied a password. It created a database opsview & recorded > the > password in opsview.conf. Then it bailed out with this error message. I > tried > reinstalling numerous times after dpkg --remove & purge all opsview > packages and > > manually remove any references to opsview and nagios (user, folders, > nagcmd > group, database) > I spent more than 4 hours in getting this to work. No luck at all. > > I am stumped. Please help. > > =========================== > New install - prompting for new database passwords > Creating database opsview > ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 915: Specified key was too long; max key length > is > 1000 bytes > Cannot install db > dpkg: error processing opsview-core (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of opsview-web: > opsview-web depends on opsview-core (>= 3.7.2.4655); however: > Package opsview-core is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing opsview-web (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of opsview: > opsview depends on opsview-core (>= 3.7.2.4655); however: > Package opsview-core is not configured yet. > opsview depends on opsview-web (>= 3.7.2.4655); however: > Package opsview-web is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing opsview (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > No apport report written because the error message indicates its a > followup > error from a previous failure. > No apport report written because the error > message > indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. > Errors were > encountered > while processing: > opsview-core > opsview-web > opsview > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ======================= > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opsview-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users > _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
