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STATUS updates

TODO

  • the formular plugin is giving me errors, need to figure this out (email assignment form)
  • update grade not-z scripts to handle/be aware of winter terms
  • update system page for (new)www
  • redo DSLAB tweedledee/tweedledum with squeeze rebuilt tweedledee, tweedledum on the way
    • rebuild DSLAB www, irc, auth as squeeze VMs
  • load balance/replicate www/wiki content between LAIR and DSLAB
  • adapt LAIR irc and lab46 to use self-contained kernels (how to do this?)
  • update system page for db
  • migrate nfs1/nfs2 system page to current wiki
  • update nfs1/nfs2 to squeeze
  • flake* multiseat page

URLs

Some links of interest:

April 15th, 2014

locale issues on utilite

Being a fresh install, I have encountered an old problem anew… and apparently due to a lack of documentation on my part, I now no longer know how to adequately fix it.

First of all, WHAT:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_TIME = "en",
	LC_MONETARY = "en",
	LC_COLLATE = "C",
	LC_ADDRESS = "en",
	LC_TELEPHONE = "en",
	LC_NAME = "en",
	LC_MEASUREMENT = "en",
	LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en",
	LC_NUMERIC = "en",
	LC_PAPER = "en",
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

I found what SHOULD be a fix here:

It describes:

  • locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
  • dpkg-reconfigure locales

/etc/environment

I also modified /etc/environment by appending the following lines:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

We'll see if it works.

URL: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1720356

GNOME hacking: Getting my Volume Control back

As I was setting up the Utilite with LDAP and their non-default 'utilite' user, my volume control in the GNOME panel went away. I was able to get sound back with appropriate membership to local system groups (reference specific assignments of wedge in /etc/group), but volume adjustment wasn't available.

To fix (manually), run: gnome-sound-applet

To fix (automatically), run: gnome-session-properties and add an entry.

URLs:

April 16th, 2014

grep broken (revisited)

The locale settings on the utilite have caused a return of some problems experienced long ago, where grep appears to break.

Interestingly, fixing them on the utilite caused things to break on lab46.

The new fix? Setting LC_ALL equal to C restores the desired functionality.

I'll have to implement these fixes to lair-std

URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826997

Other Days

haas/status/status_201404.txt · Last modified: 2014/05/01 01:12 by 127.0.0.1