[ic] Cannot start interchange

[Mike Puntolillo]

Rick Bragg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:39 -0400, Mike Puntolillo wrote:
>   
>> I am a new Interchange user and have been having an awful lot of trouble 
>> setting it up. I complied from source, ran makecat, and when I run 
>> ./interchange I get no errors. When I attempt to access Interchange from 
>> firefox I get "
>>
>>
>>        We're sorry, the Interchange server is unavailable...
>>
>> We are out of service or may be experiencing high system demand. Please 
>> try again soon.
>>
>> "
>> If i try ./interchange -r I get "The previous Interchange server was not 
>> running and probably terminated with an error." The server was running, 
>> however, because I saw it when I ran ps -e. The error.log does not give 
>> any additional information.
>>
>> I installed interchange from source on OpenSuse 11.0 x86_64. I am using 
>> apache as the web server. My firewall is disabled. Perl is using threads 
>> but it is version 5.10 and I am all out of ideas. Can someone please help?
>>
>>                                                                          
>>       Thanks,
>>                                                                          
>>        Mike
>>
>>     
>
> Did the makecat finish OK? - makecat should have finished with a message
> something like "You are now ready to run your catalog, please put
> something in your cron to expire old session stuff." (I forgot the exact
> message but it is something like that...) 
> Are you using UNIX mode or INET mode?
> When you started IC right after makecat, did it build the database OK?
> Take a look at your catalog error.log, and the IC error.log Let us know
> what is says.
>
> rick
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> I won't have access to the machine again until thursday but thank you for all the suggestions. I dont believe Opensuse uses SELinux, it uses AppArmour instead. I was able to make IC work on Opensuse 10.3 which uses pretty much the same AppArmour setup so i don't think its that. Im pretty sure makecat finished successfully, however I will create a new catalog and make sure it does. IC did build the database after make cat. I am using UNIX mode.
> After all of this if it doesn't work I will post both error.log files.
> I am not getting a message when IC that says "Interchange server started in UNIX mode(s) (process id ?????)"
> I tried running ./interchange SocketPerms=0666 or some syntax like that which I found in the IC documentation. It did not help.
>
> Any mor ideas? I will send the results of all your suggestions on thursday.
> 						Thanks alot!
> 						Mike
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