[ic] Debian problems

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Thu May 10 15:41:01 2001


Víctor Romero <romero@kde.org> writes:

> > Have you installed the tar.gz package or the debian package?
> 	
> 	The deb package, I always try to use the deb package before any other thing...
> 
> >
> > > 			No responseWe're sorry, the Interchange server is unavailable... We
> > > are out of service or may be experiencing high system demand, please try
> > > again soon.
> >
> > Thats a FAQ -> go to developer.akopia.com and search for it.
> >
> > > 		So, dont know wheres the problem ;'(
> >
> > Hint: look at the permission of the cgi binary...
> 
> 	The strange thing about this is the faq page doenst work... but a search of "unavailable" return this :
> 
> 
> We're sorry, the Interchange server is unavailable... 
> 
> (The following assumes that you were able to start the Interchange server.) 
> 
> This could be almost anything, but with a properly configured Interchange it is almost undoubtedly due to your cgi-bin and/or your Interchange directory being located on a different filesystem than the actua machine that is executing the program. VLINK uses UNIX-domain sockets, which don't work on NFS-mounted filesystems. 
> 
> Iserver.com and other systems which use chroot HTTP servers require quite a bit of extra configuration to get going. If you have not been careful to set permissions properly when running in VLINK/UNIX mode, the link CGI will not be able to communicate with the Interchange server. Please read the documentation that covers this in detail. 
> 
> You can run in INET mode with the tlink link program to prevent those problems. 
> 
> 
> 	So Im still at the beggining, Im sure the cgi permisions are ok, and I have just a root partition, and a /boot partition, so the partitions and nfs shouldnt be the problem.
> 
> 	In the other side I have that may be interchange server are not correctly running, but :
> 
> victor@kenny:~$ ps aux | grep interchange
> 108        363  0.0  0.4 16888  556 ?        S    17:31   0:00 interchange
> victor    2602  0.0  0.5  1616  700 pts/2    S    21:24   0:00 grep interchange

Seems to be running. Please post the output of

/etc/init.d/interchange restart

and 

ls -l /where/your/cgi/are

What is your interchange user ?

Bye
        Racke

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