Topic: mitel-networks-server login? not MSE 7.3???

[David Harper]

Samba profiles are stored in /home/e-smith/files/samba/profiles/

If you restored them, you would need to change their user & group ownerships from root:root to user:user for each profile, to allow the users to access and save their profiles.

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chown -R exampleuser exampleprofile
chgrp -R exampleuser exampleprofile


[rm]

Have you ever had activity across this NIC?

Yes I have. As it was shipped by dell, I just pushed the CD in and installed. At the time it was 7.1 or 7.2, and now ... hold on. Could it be that my install was still at 7.2, since I did burn a 7.3 CD after my action that initiated this post?

Where/How can I determine when 7.3 was installed on the server? Would the logs show that? And where do I need to search?

[David Harper]

/root/install.log should contain your installation log. The file date will tell you when you installed SME Server.

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[root@xerxes ~]# ls -l /root/install.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 24187 Oct  8 07:45 /root/install.log
[root@xerxes ~]#


[rm]

I have been looking at these files, the /root/install.log only logs the most recent actions, and seems to be overwritten by each install. No news there.

However, from upgrade.log.20081106084133
Upgrading 23 packages, amongst which the un-installed aspells an locale files (de, es, fr, it, sv).
warning: /home/e-smith/db/accounts created as /home/e-smith/db/accounts.rpmnew
warning: /home/e-smith/db/configuration created as /home/e-smith/db/configuration.rpmnew

That's interesting... in /home/e-smith/db/ amongst others I find(have to type them over):
accounts - Nov 6 - 1237 byte
accounts.rpmnew - Jul 4 - 0 byte
accounts.rpmsave - Nov 1 - 5923 byte
configuration - Nov 6 - 6708 byte
configuration.rpmnew - Jul 4 - 0 byte
configuration.rpmsave - Nov 6 - 8319 byte
networks - Dec 24 2007 - 0 byte
networks.rpmsave - Oct 31 - 298  byte

Each file states "DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE"... yet the .rpmsvae files seem to hold (parts of ?) the initial configuration, with network settings that are now not functional. Can I (Since I do not have access to the admin menu) fiddle around here? Rename the .rpmsave's ?

[dgs]

Yes I have. As it was shipped by dell, I just pushed the CD in and installed. At the time it was 7.1 or 7.2, and now ... hold on. Could it be that my install was still at 7.2, since I did burn a 7.3 CD after my action that initiated this post?

Where/How can I determine when 7.3 was installed on the server? Would the logs show that? And where do I need to search?

I've had no luck at with the onboard NIC, I don't think I have tried a SC440 with an SME version prior to 7.3. Whenever I have had problem I've just added a NIC and got on with things.

What I've observed could have no relation to your problem whatsoever, and I do not wish to waste anyones time, but if you are still at an impass and wish to bang your head on the monitor maybe try another NIC and a quick re-run of the setup. Just a thought.

[rm]

... maybe try another NIC and a quick re-run of the setup.

Bright idea, so I pulled a sturdy 3com 3c900 combo 10Mbit of the shelve. This however doesn't change anything, still can't login as admin, neither eth0 nor eth1 are configured.

[rm]

So where am I now:
- resetting password of admin/root doesn't change anything, no eth0/eth1, no login as admin possible
- no backup to external USB device (via admin screen) possible
- so, disk content copied to a (excuse me) WinXP machine (thx explore2fs)

Unless someone has a bright idea to get the configuration back to live, I'll reinstall a fresh version of SME (hoping to get the inboard NIC operational). Then I'll be occupied copying and chowning a lot.

[pfloor]

Have you tried:

Log in as root then "su admin"
Log in as root then "/sbin/e-smith/console"

[rm]

Log in as root then "su admin"

This causes a screen full of code, possible something is on top of this, as the line below is at the top of the screen, with the cursor right at the very bottom.

"Can't locate esmith/Backup.pm in @INC (@INC contains: [... and then a lot of paths, half a screen full of them...]) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/console/perform_backup.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/console/perform_backup.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /sbin/e-smith/console-menu-items/usbBackup.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sbin/e-smith/console-menu-items/usbBackup.pl line 2.
Compilation failed in require at /sbin/e-smith/console line 61."

I remain logged in as root. Does this ring a bell?

[cactus]

This causes a screen full of code, possible something is on top of this, as the line below is at the top of the screen, with the cursor right at the very bottom.

"Can't locate esmith/Backup.pm in @INC (@INC contains: [... and then a lot of paths, half a screen full of them...]) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/console/perform_backup.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/console/perform_backup.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /sbin/e-smith/console-menu-items/usbBackup.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sbin/e-smith/console-menu-items/usbBackup.pl line 2.
Compilation failed in require at /sbin/e-smith/console line 61."

I remain logged in as root. Does this ring a bell?

Ohoh, that does not look very good. That file should be provided by e-smith-backup, one of the core packages of SME Server. Is it installed on your server?

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rpm -q e-smith-backup

[rm]

Is it installed on your server?

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rpm -q e-smith-backup

Yes, "e-smith-base-4.18.0-81.el4.sme"

[cactus]

Yes, "e-smith-base-4.18.0.81.el4.sme"

I made a typo, you might have not seen in your quick reply:

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rpm -q e-smith-backup

[rm]

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rpm -q e-smith-backup

package e-smith-backup is not installed

And by the way, just checked your website, and I have/had your subversion running on the server as well, nice job! thanks for providing that!

[cactus]

package e-smith-backup is not installed

Strange, does this do anything for you:

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yum update

And by the way, just checked your website, and I have/had your subversion running on the server as well, nice job! thanks for providing that!

Your welcome, you are aware that the latest version can be downloaded from the smecontribs repository?

[rm]

Strange, does this do anything for you:

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yum update

ifconfig only shows a loopback, both eth0 and eth1 aren't configured. Rerunning the CD doesn't change that.

Your welcome, you are aware that the latest version can be downloaded from the smecontribs repository?

I'm not sure. Installing is several months ago, however, during one update it got through via contribs iirc.