[ic] Interchange server is unavailable

[sb at airdelights.com]

Quoting sb at airdelights.com (sb at airdelights.com):
> "Music" <music at labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
> > >I performed a new installation of Interchange on Centos with apache
> > >server and new installation of perl. Ran Interchange makecat and
set 
> > >up  catalog with mysql.  Everything seems to go fine. On restart of

> > >Interchange I get this message:  [root at localhost ~]# interchange 
> > >restart  Low traffic settings.
> > > Calling UI......UI is loaded...
> > > Interchange V5.5.0-200605230658
> > > Running with new signals, external programs could be unreliable.
> > > Re-run with environment variable PERL_SIGNALS set to "unsafe" to
> change
> > > this.
> > > Configuring catalog store...Using MySQL, 
> > > DSN=dbi:mysql:test_store...done. The Interchange server is already

> > > running (process id 10151)
> > > 
> > > But when I go to the web page I get this message:
> > > We're sorry, the Interchange server is unavailable...
> > > We are out of service or may be experiencing high system demand.
> > > Please try again soon.
> > 
> > Edit this file: /path/to/interchange/bin/interchange
> > and make the second line read:
> > $ENV{PERL_SIGNALS} = "unsafe";
> >
> >No - don't do that;  Put PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe in your environment 
> >before
> you start Interchange, or start/restart using the >following:
> >
> >    su ic_username -c "PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe /path/to/bin/interchange
> --restart"
> >
> >Although it's good to set PERL_SIGNALS, having it unset is unlikely 
> >to
> be the cause of the problem here.  The problem could be almost 
> anything so check the error.log files for suspects.
> >
> >The problem may not even necessarily be in the Interchange core or
> installation.  The problem could be in the Apache setup >or with CGI 
> permissions etc.  Check all of the log files for clues.
> 
> 
> Does this information help to pinpoint the problem?
> 
> May 29 14:14:28 localhost interchange: interchange shutdown succeeded 
> May 29 14:14:28 localhost su(pam_unix)[11876]: session opened for user

> interch by sbronson(uid=0) May 29 14:14:28 localhost su[11876]: 
> Warning!  Could not relabel /dev/pts/6 with 
> user_u:object_r:initrc_devpts_t, not relabeling.Operation not 
> permitted May 29 14:14:32 localhost su(pam_unix)[11876]: session 
> closed for user interch
> May 29 14:14:32 localhost interchange: interchange startup succeeded
> May 29 14:14:38 localhost su(pam_unix)[11905]: session opened for user
> interch by sbronson(uid=0)
> May 29 14:14:38 localhost su[11905]: Warning!  Could not relabel
> /dev/pts/6 with user_u:object_r:initrc_devpts_t, not
> relabeling.Operation not permitted
> May 29 14:14:42 localhost su(pam_unix)[11905]: session closed for user
> interch
> May 29 14:14:52 localhost kernel: audit(1148937292.055:3812): avc:
> denied  { write } for  pid=11932 comm="store1" name="socket" dev=dm-0
> ino=1606292 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=user_u:object_r:var_run_t tclass=sock_file
> 

>Yup. You have a problem with SELinux. Either you will have to find some
way to enable writes to sockets via that, or just >disable selinux
completely.

I checked the selinux help manual and it suggested changing selinux from
forcestart to disable in the selinux file, which I did.  Seems to have
caused a problem with mysql, here is the error message I get when
starting interchange:

Configuring catalog store...Using MySQL,
DSN=dbi:mysql:test_store...table 'tree'
failed: table tree connect failed -- DBI connect('test_store','',...)
failed: C                                             an't connect to
local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (1
11) at /usr/lib/interchange/lib/Vend/Table/DBI.pm line 581

table 'state' failed: table state connect failed -- Can't connect to
local MySQL                                              server through
socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

table 'ups_cache' failed: table ups_cache connect failed -- Can't
connect to loc                                             al MySQL
server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)
table 'pay_certs' failed: table pay_certs connect failed -- Can't
connect to loc                                             al MySQL
server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

table 'orderline' failed: table orderline connect failed -- Can't
connect to loc                                             al MySQL
server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)