SlimserverOnMandrivaLinuxLE2005
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This is a blow-by-account of my experience of installing slimserver on MandrivaLinux LE2005 to investigate why it doesn't work out-of-the-box.
Download 3 x ISOs
Burn 3 x CDs
Boot aging Compaq Deskpro Pentium II (128MB RAM, 4GB disk) from CD 1.
Hit Enter to install.
Error reading CD
Break open PC and move CDROM drive onto secondary channel
Boot again from CD 1
Hit Enter to install
Error reading CD
Burn another copy of CD 1
Boot from new CD 1
Error reading CD
Check CD 1 in another PC - booted OK
Replace CD drive with a spare
Boot from CD 1
Hit Enter to install
- Yay, it's working.
Select Language - English (British)
Accept licence agreement
Select UK Keyboard
Selected High security level (default)
Chose to remove Windows (the PC had windows 98 on it)
- (hard drive partitioned and filesystems created)
/dev/hda1 1619MB //dev/hda5 ? swap/dev/hda6 1092MB /home
Yes, I've got all three disks.
No, I don't want to copy them to the hard drive
Select "No supplementary Installation Media"
Default package selection:
- Office Workstation
- Multimedia Station
- Internet Station
- Configuration
- Console Tools
- KDE Workstation
Added "Network Computer Server" (I want ssh).
Bah, default root filesystem is too small for all these options
De-selected "Office Workstation"
Yes, I'm sure I want to install those servers...
Right, down the pub while the installation chugs away...
Come back (hic) and put in CD 2
Put in CD 3
Set root password
Added myself as a user
Configured sound card
Yes, I have an ISA sound card
Put in CD 1
- "Run alsaconf or sndconfig after installation to configure your sound card"
Configure graphical interface
Chose graphics card, and Xorg with Hardware Accelaration
Chose monitor, resolution & colour depth
Tested configuration
- It worked!
Chose to boot into X
Chose to download updates
- (not sure if anything happened?)
Congratulations! Installation complete
Rebooted
System came up cleanly into graphical mode
Firstboot wizard ran
Skipped survey
I don't want to join the Mandrake club!
Cancelled MandrakeOnline wizard.
Logged in as robin
Ran System Configuration
- (authenticated as root)
Configured existing network interface and set static IP address
Set hostname to "mandy" :)
Used ssh to connect to the box remotely
- Yay I'm in!
Quick check:
$ perl --versionThis is perl, v5.8.6 built for i386-linux(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Grabbed the latest slimserver 6.2 nightly:
$ wget http://slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2/slimserver-2005_09_01-1.noarch.rpm
Changed user to root and Installed the rpm:
$ su -Password:# urpmi slimserver-2005_09_01-1.noarch.rpminstalling slimserver-2005_09_01-1.noarch.rpmPreparing... #############################################1/1: slimserver #############################################Point your web browser to http://localhost:/ to configure your server.
Is slimserver set to start automatically:
# chkconfig --list slimserverslimserver 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
- Yes.
Is slimserver running?
# service slimserver statusslimserver.pl is stopped
- No.
Try to start slimserver:
# service slimserver startStarting SlimServer: [ OK ]
Is slimserver still running?
# ps -ef | grep slimroot 16518 14317 0 22:00 pts/1 00:00:00 grep slim
- No.
Check the log:
# less /tmp/slimserver.logCan't locate auto/DBI/connect.al in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins /usr/local/slimserver /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8.6/i386-linux/auto /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8/i386-linux /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8/i386-linux/auto /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/slimserver/Slim/DataStores/DBI/DataModel.pm line 143
- This is the error I am trying to resolve.
Check what arch files are installed with slimserver:
# cd /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8# lsi386-linux-thread-multi/ mipsel-linux/i586-linux-thread-multi/ x86_64-linux/
- Notice how the @INC (above) doesn't include any of these paths.
Add a symlink "i386-linux" to i586-linux-thread-multi:
# ln -s i586-linux-thread-multi i386-linux# ls -ltotal 16lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 1 22:04 i386-linux -> i586-linux-thread-multi/drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver slimserver 4096 Sep 1 21:53 i386-linux-thread-multi/drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver slimserver 4096 Sep 1 21:53 i586-linux-thread-multi/drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver slimserver 4096 Sep 1 21:53 mipsel-linux/drwxr-xr-x 3 slimserver slimserver 4096 Sep 1 21:53 x86_64-linux/
Try running slimserver again:
# service slimserver startStarting SlimServer: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN/arch/5.8/i386- linux/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr [FAILED]
- Ooops.
Right, remove the symlink and try building the perl modules:
# rm i386-linx# cd /usr/local/slimserver/Bin# ./build-perl-modules.plWelcome to the Slim Devices perl module installer.These packages are needed for SlimServer 6 to function.You will need a C compiler (gcc), make, and perl installed.*** Ignore any warnings about AppConfig. ***Please enter a perl binary to use (defaults to /usr/bin/perl)This must be the same perl binary that you ran this program with -->Please enter the path to your SlimServer directory (ex: /usr/local/slimserver) -->Please enter a directory to download files to -->Downloads will use lwp to fetch tarballs.Downloading Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz to: /usr/local/slimserver/BinUncompressing..Configuring../usr/bin/perl Makefile.PLUp/Downgrade complete.Building..make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux/CORE/EXTERN.h', needed by `Zlib.o'. Stop.Couldn't find a valid dynamic library for Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz - something is wrong. Exiting!
- OK, let's see if some updates will help.
Went to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and chose a few options to give me commands to update my urpmi media:
urpmi.addmedia --update updates http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/LE2005/main_updates/ with media_info/hdlist.czurpmi.addmedia main http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.czurpmi.addmedia contrib http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz
Ran MandrakeLinux Update from the Graphical interface
- found 83 updates (300MB!)
- I notice the perl was one of the updates
- original version of perl: perl-5.8.6-6mdk
- new version of perl: perl-5.8.6-6.1.102mdk
Try starting slimserver:
- same error as before (connect.al)
Tried building perl modules again
- same error as before (EXTERN.h)
Used rpmdrake to search for EXTERN.h
- it's in perl-devel.
Installed perl-devel
Tried build-perl-modules again
- ack! gcc not installed!
Installed gcc-3.4.7
- rpmdrake identified dependencies and also installed:
- binutils
- glibc-devel
- libbinutils
Tried build-perl-modules again
Template Toolkit requires AppConfig
- ignored this for now as it didn't appear to be a fatal error.
XML::Parser requires expat to be installed
- Installed libexpat0-devel
Tried build-perl-modules again
- completed successfully.
Try starting slimserver:
- Bingo!
Browse to slimserver on mandy from a different machine on network:
http://mandy.robinbowes.com:9000
- Can't connect. Hmmm.
Browse to slimserver on mandy from mandy:
http://mandy.robinbowes.com:9000
- It works!
Check firewall in MandrakeLinux Control Centre.
- Aha, need to open up some ports.
Use Control Centre to open up the following ports:
- 3483/tcp
- 3483/udp
- 9000/tcp
Browse to slimserver on mandy from a different machine on network:
http://mandy.robinbowes.com:9000
- Success!! It's working!
