[Live-demo] Does your application work on the click2try GISVM?

Simon Pigot Simon.Pigot at csiro.au
Wed Oct 14 16:53:05 PDT 2009


Thanks for the explanation Alex - appreciate it!

I'll change the install script to use chmod as per your advice and 
perhaps this will fix the issue.

Cheers and thanks,
Simon


Alex Mandel wrote:
> Actually,
>
> We can't guarantee the uid, various processes in the building of the iso
> have a tendancy to wipe the existing user and a new one is created on
> boot not necessarily with the same uid. The recommendation was to make
> sure that all files were group rwx to the users group, not "user"
> so chmod g+rwx. Hamish will correct me if I'm misremembering the discussion.
>
> We won't really know the answer about whether the sudo is necessary
> until after the next build attempt that someone tries. If you want to
> test this script in a fresh vm and report back that would be helpful
> otherwise it might be a few months before we have can finally resolve
> this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> Simon Pigot wrote:
>   
>> What puzzles me about all this is that the changes Jeroen has made to
>> the shortcut scripts were actually the way in which the shortcut scripts
>> were originally submitted!
>>
>> Cameron, the chown command is in the install_geonetwork.sh already!
>>
>> The problems seem to have been caused by a decision someone made to
>> change the uid/gid of user/password (when? how? why?) - is it still
>> necessary to run the scripts with a sudo to user?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeroen,
>>> I hope that we can apply your fixes to the geonetwork install scripts.
>>> If you have not updated the install_geonetwork.sh , can you please
>>> describe the issue and fix in the issue tracker, so that we can update
>>> it before we go through the next release cycle.
>>>
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?group=status&component=LiveDVD&order=priority
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi Aneel,
>>>> These are the changes I did:
>>>>
>>>> from the root of the geonetwork application:
>>>> sudo chown -R user:user *
>>>>
>>>> In the shortcuts that start and stop GeoNetwork I removed the first
>>>> part of the command, just leaving the part:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/geonetwork/bin/start-geonetwork.sh
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>> /usr/lib/geonetwork/bin/stop-geonetwork.sh
>>>>
>>>> That's all.
>>>> Ciao,
>>>> Jeroen
>>>>
>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>> Jeroen Ticheler
>>>> De Braakweg 12a
>>>> 7524 PH Enschede
>>>> Tel/Fax: +31 (0)53 7370049
>>>> Mobile: +31 (0)6 81286572
>>>> http://www.ticheler.net
>>>>
>>>> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Aneel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> Hello Jeroen,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please give us the steps you did to fix these issues. Whatever you
>>>>> doing
>>>>> is specific to particular instance only. We have to fix them at
>>>>> application level to make permanent.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Aneel
>>>>> click2try
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 13:05 +0200, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Last thing, I also fixed the start and stop shortcuts. They should 
>>>>>> point directly to the start and stop scripts and not go through
>>>>>> the  launchhelper script.
>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Aneel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hello Jeroen,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maintenance and bug fix activity is going on click2try-GISVM. Please
>>>>>>> don't try the GISVM on click2try for some time. Once we have done
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> maintenance activity, we will post update on this mailing list.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Aneel
>>>>>>> click2try
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:41 +0200, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>>>>> I tried again several times today. I got some steps further, but 
>>>>>>>> can't
>>>>>>>> get on to the desktop :-( I use "user/user" as account/pw but then I
>>>>>>>> get an error as shown on the screenshot. Is there a way to use SSH?
>>>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>>>>>> Jeroen Ticheler
>>>>>>>> De Braakweg 12a
>>>>>>>> 7524 PH Enschede
>>>>>>>> Tel/Fax: +31 (0)53 7370049
>>>>>>>> Mobile: +31 (0)6 81286572
>>>>>>>> http://www.ticheler.net
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Tom Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Jaroen,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe I can help you with your connection issues.  The message
>>>>>>>>> “Public Internet Access: Yes, Not available” refers to something
>>>>>>>>> that has not yet been set up for this VM.  This is not a problem
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> you should still be able to access the VM.  When you attempted to
>>>>>>>>> connect, had  you highlighted the VM osgeo-gisvm20-25 and click2ed
>>>>>>>>> the LAUNCH button?  If so, what happens?  Do you see a light purple
>>>>>>>>> screen with a progress bar across the top?  Do you receive a
>>>>>>>>> message
>>>>>>>>> for installing a click2try java applet?  Does a frame with a page
>>>>>>>>> not found appear on the left side of the screen with a title bar
>>>>>>>>> “quickstart guide”?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> From: Jeroen Ticheler [mailto:Jeroen at Ticheler.net]
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:41 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: Aneel
>>>>>>>>> Cc: Cameron Shorter; Ricardo Pinho; Tom Callaghan; Arun Sharma
>>>>>>>>> Tecnics
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Does your application work on the
>>>>>>>>> click2try
>>>>>>>>> GISVM?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Aneel,
>>>>>>>>> I tried to connect and have a look. I can't get access, maybe
>>>>>>>>> because someone else is using the VM, is that correct? I read
>>>>>>>>> "Public Internet Access: Yes, Not available" and I see one user
>>>>>>>>> online.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Concerning the problem, the first two lines are normal for a very
>>>>>>>>> first time startup. The following three lines are not and indicate
>>>>>>>>> that the permissions of the account running the application don't
>>>>>>>>> allow writing to the logs directory. Most likely the same is true
>>>>>>>>> for some other directories that GeoNetwork needs to be able to
>>>>>>>>> write
>>>>>>>>> to. I suggest reviewing the privileges of the process owner to
>>>>>>>>> ensure that write privileges are given to the GeoNetwork
>>>>>>>>> application
>>>>>>>>> folders.
>>>>>>>>> Let me know if I can help further.
>>>>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>>>>> ps. I will be on my way to Sydney from Thursday morning onwards
>>>>>>>>> (Amsterdam time zone).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Aneel wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Issue2: (GeoNetwork - it doesn't work)
>>>>>>>>> Launching /usr/lib/geonetwork/bin/start-geonetwork.sh
>>>>>>>>> rm: cannot remove `logs/*request.log*': No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>> rm: cannot remove `logs/output.log': No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>> mv: cannot stat `logs/geonetwork.log.*': No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>> mv: cannot stat `logs/intermap.log.*': No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>> mv: cannot stat `logs/geoserver.log.*': No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>   
>>>       
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