Topic: SME Server 6.5 Beta1 + Beta2 + RC1 - Community Feedback

[ngomes]

Hi all,

Go ahead with your first SME Server 6.5 Beta2 installation experiences, your knowledge, feedback and precious time to help our developers move forward on their work.

Do read these documents (no longer exist):
+ SME Server 6.5 Beta2 Changelog
+ SME Server 6.5 Beta2 Changed RPMs

And also visit this thread related with contribs/addons compatibility issues:

+ SME Server 6.5 beta contribs compatibility issues

Thanks in advanced.

(Added by Contribs staff)

Please do not report any bugs in the forums.  If you feel you have found a bug report it in the bug tracker.  

Bugs reported in the forum will not be addressed as they may be missed.

Thank you.

(Added by Nuno Rafael Gomes)

The title was modified at 25.02.2005 in order to reflect the actual status of the SME Server 6.5 version (currently RC1)

Thanks.

[wellsi]

HTTP and PXE installs appear to work - thanks.

[cc_skavenger]

FTP as server only works fine now.

[d6hq]

damien/pagefault's clam/amavis installed Ok.
Jesper's SA install script failed (hacked to fool the script into thinking it was 6.0)

Notice that an updated SA is installed anyway (as it was with 6.0) but not started by default. Do I need an old forum entry that reminds me how to start SA in 6.0 or are there further plans.

Also there is a problem with Jesper's otherwise excellent work in that if you use the server as a delegate mail server you want to run RBL & SA at the SMTP level ahead of clam and simply have it delete stuff above X, tag stuff between Y and X and forward it or forward anything below Y untouched. SA configured Jesper's way tags it OK but does not delete anything.

Have been searching for a way to do this for some time. Anyone done it or know how ?

[jahlewis]

After a clean install to a raid1 system, ran all of greg's update scripts without any problems
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME6.5UpdateScripts

also ran swerts-knudsen's AV script without any problem
lynx -dump http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/downloads/AntiVirus/antivirus_install.sh | sh

I second the earlier post regarding spam assassin.  Would love to get swets-knudsen's script working, but does it interfere with the existing spam assassin rpm?

Also installed dmay's raid monitor, seems to work:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/index.php?subdir=dmay%2Fsmeserver%2F5.x%2Fcontrib%2Fraidmonitor&sortby=name

going to keep trying with other contribs..

[ngomes]

Hi all,

Thanks very much for your experiences and feedback. By the way, I have a test box with SME 6.5 Beta2 but only for doing the Portuguese translation now. I will announce it when it is done.

Let’s go back to the main topic again. I think we all should reproduce the experiences stated on the following forum threads and wikipages and try to be sure that with 6.5 Beta2 everything is OK now:

SME Server 6.5 Beta1 Contribs Compatibility Issues
SME Server 6.5 Beta1 First Experiences
SME 6.5 Update Scripts by Greg  Swallow - Forum Thread
SME 6.5 Update Scripts by Greg  Swallow - WikiPage
SME 6.5 Update Scripts by Greg Swallow and Stefan Braunstein - Forum Tread
SME 6.5 Update Scripts by Greg Swallow and Stefan Braunstein - WikiPage
How to Install ClamAV-0.81 - 1st Forum Thread
How to Install ClamAV-0.81 - 2nd Forum Thread
How to Install/Upgrade to Horde 3.0
PHP 4.3.10 Update Script
How to Upgrade to NetaTalk-2.0.2
Repeating Emails on SME 6.0 IMAP + Clam/Amavis

Although almost of the previous links are not directly related with the SME Server 6.5 Beta2 (because we are talking here about Contribs compatibility mainly) I think we all agree that our feedback on these important issues will be very important to the SME 6.5 Final release.

Thanks in advanced to all of you,
-Nuno

[ngomes]

I forgot to mention that all bugs after being described here for others to see, reproduce and give feedback should also be posted on the Bug Tracker.

-Nuno

[CharlieBrady]

I forgot to mention that all bugs after being described here for others to see, reproduce and give feedback should also be posted on the Bug Tracker.

-Nuno

Please post only to the Bug Tracker. Other people can keep an eye on them and add comments about reproducability there. Don't expect the bug fixers to be watching all threads on the bulletin board.

[sits]

This is a fresh install of SME v6.5 beta2
added users, I inadvertantly hit the remove link on one of the users, so had to recreate the user.
I now get this message

Operation status report
Error: the account "peter" can't be created because there is already a user-deleted account of that name.

What needs to be done to correct this

[CharlieBrady]

This is a fresh install of SME v6.5 beta2
added users, I inadvertantly hit the remove link on one of the users, so had to recreate the user.
I now get this message

Operation status report
Error: the account "peter" can't be created because there is already a user-deleted account of that name.

Please post all reports of problems with 6.5beta (only) to the Bug Tracker on this website.

[sonoracomm]

Hi All,

I was testing/updating my ASSP anti-spam howto on 6.5b and ran into a problem right off the bat that someone might be able to help me with.

ASSP is a SMTP proxy.  In the past, I modified the /etc/services file (custom template) so that SME listened on port 125 instead of 25.  Then installed the proxy to listen on 25.  I have lots of SME servers in production with ASSP.

My problem is that (apparently) with 6.5b, simply modifying the /etc/services SMTP entry is no longer sufficient to make the SME server listen on port 125.  After rebuilding /etc/services and restarting services (even rebooting), SMTP is still active on port 25...like it completely ignores the /etc/services mod.

Is there, perhaps, a new database entry or something to make this mod?

Thanks for any insight you might provide.

G

[djhomeless]

Sorry if this was posted elsewhere, does anyone know when 6.5 will be available as a full Release Candidate?

Thanks!

Geoffrey

[WongDai]

'day all

Tried the smeserver-6.5beta2-i386.iso in an attempt to upgrade my 6.0b3 installation.  Note, this is an upgrade not a fresh install.

The 6.5b3 got past the language selection, past the keyboard selection, past the agree to licence section, loaded the Anaconda stuff, but then crapped out.

It claimed it was probably a corrupt iso, but I have checked the md5 and reburned the cd, even replaced the cd drive, so it is definitely not that.

Some (type in) excerpts from the failure follow:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 364 in ?
    intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py:, line 412, in run
    rc = apply(win, (self.screen, ) + args)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text/mitel_text.py", line 561, in __call__
    [ _("Back") ], wideth =65)
TypeError: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4

Regards

WongDai

[mbachmann]

Although the upgrade option is offered, 6.5b2 is not designed to do an update of any version. But some people have successfully updated from 6.0 and 6.01.

[jcoleman]

Although the upgrade option is offered, 6.5b2 is not designed to do an update of any version. But some people have successfully updated from 6.0 and 6.01.

Let me correct that just a bit.  6.5b2 will upgrade a clean SME Server 6.0.1 or a clean Mitel 6.0 install.

It will clearly break some contribs, and there are no plans to do upgrades from prior betas at this point.

Hope this helps,

-jeff