Sunday, March 20, 2016

My first command on the new server welstv, our third Lino Welfare customer:

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

Oops:

-bash: sudo: command not found

No, problem, let’s do it as everybody did it before sudo came:

$ su
# apt-get install sudo

But oops again:

...
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20160123-19:03'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter

Aha, they had this in their sources.list:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main

I deactivated this line, then it worked:

# apt-get install sudo # addgroup USERNAME sudo

After logging in again, I can now work as descibed in Set up a Lino production server.

MySQL and MariaDB

I tried to go new paths: installed MariaDB instead of MySQL. Some console messages:

Aborting downgrade from (at least) 10.0 to 5.5.
If are sure you want to downgrade to 5.5, remove the file
/var/lib/mysql/debian-*.flag and try installing again.


While not mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password
for the MySQL administrative "root" user.  If this field is left
blank, the password will not be changed.  New password for the MySQL
"root" user:


Configuring mysql-server-5.5 : Unable to set password for the MySQL
"root" user An error occurred while setting the password for the MySQL
administrative user. This may have happened because the account
already has a password, or because of a communication problem with the
MySQL server.  You should check the account's password after the
package installation.  Please read the
/usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.5/README.Debian file for more
information.

The following didn’t help:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: mysql-server is broken or not fully installed


It is strongly recommended to set a password for the mysql root user (which
  /usr/bin/mysqlb -u root -D mysql -e "update user set password=password('new-password') where user='root'"
  /usr/bin/mysql -u root -e "flush privileges"
If you already had a password set add "-p" before "-u" to the lines above.

When I have Mariadb-server, pip failed to install MySQL-python:

$ pip install MySQL-python
Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python
  Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-bhpwbY/MySQL-python/setup.py) egg_info for package MySQL-python
    sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-bhpwbY/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
        metadata, options = get_config()
      File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
        libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
      File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
        raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
    EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    sh: 1: mysql_config: not found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-bhpwbY/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
    metadata, options = get_config()
  File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
    libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
  File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
    raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))

EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...

I tried these without success:

$ sudo apt-get install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev-compat

Until I discovered that it works when I have this:

$ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Problems in initdb_demo

The first (bigger) problem for tonight:

$ python manage.py initdb_demo
...
INFO Loading /repositories/lino/lino/modlib/gfks/fixtures/std.py...
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loading /repositories/lino/lino/modlib/gfks/fixtures/std.py...
INFO Loaded 1 objects
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loaded 1 objects
INFO Loading /repositories/xl/lino_xl/lib/properties/fixtures/std.py...
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loading /repositories/xl/lino_xl/lib/properties/fixtures/std.py...
INFO Loaded 2 objects
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loaded 2 objects
INFO Loading /repositories/welfare/lino_welfare/modlib/contacts/fixtures/std.py...
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loading /repositories/welfare/lino_welfare/modlib/contacts/fixtures/std.py...
INFO Loaded 22 objects
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loaded 22 objects
INFO Loading /repositories/welfare/lino_welfare/modlib/uploads/fixtures/std.py...
INFO:lino.utils.dpy:Loading /repositories/welfare/lino_welfare/modlib/uploads/fixtures/std.py...
WARNING Failed to save UploadType #1 ('Aufenthaltserlaubnis'):
WARNING:lino.utils.dpy:Failed to save UploadType #1 ('Aufenthaltserlaubnis'):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 8, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 348, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 399, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/repositories/lino/lino/modlib/lino_startup/management/commands/initdb_demo.py", line 33, in handle
    super(Command, self).handle(*args, **options)
  File "/repositories/lino/lino/modlib/lino_startup/management/commands/initdb.py", line 222, in handle
    call_command('loaddata', *args, **options)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 119, in call_command
    return command.execute(*args, **defaults)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 399, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 60, in handle
    self.loaddata(fixture_labels)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 100, in loaddata
    self.load_label(fixture_label)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 158, in load_label
    obj.save(using=self.using)
  File "/repositories/lino/lino/utils/dpy.py", line 427, in save
    self.try_save(*args, **kw)
  File "/repositories/lino/lino/utils/dpy.py", line 450, in try_save
    obj.save(*args, **kw)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 700, in save
    force_update=force_update, update_fields=update_fields)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 728, in save_base
    updated = self._save_table(raw, cls, force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 793, in _save_table
    forced_update)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 843, in _do_update
    return filtered._update(values) > 0
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 645, in _update
    return query.get_compiler(self.db).execute_sql(CURSOR)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 1149, in execute_sql
    cursor = super(SQLUpdateCompiler, self).execute_sql(result_type)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 848, in execute_sql
    cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 112, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 187, in execute
    query = query % tuple([db.literal(item) for item in args])
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 278, in literal
    return self.escape(o, self.encoders)
  File "/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 203, in string_literal
    return db.string_literal(obj)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
INFO Done manage.py initdb_demo (PID 9142)

The reason was that the fixtures use dd.str2kw to fill multilingual text into the database. And this method had been converted by the futurize script: it stored texts as newstr instances. And it seems that mysql-python is yet another package which does not know about this hack. Ticket #36 is greeting.

The next problem was:

appy.pod.actions.EvaluationError: Problem installing fixture 'lino_xl/lib/excerpts/fixtures/demo2.py': Error while evaluating the expression "html(body)" defined in the "from" part of a statement. SAXParseException: <unknown>:47:2: mismatched tag