Tamás Tarjányi's Blog

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) is out for a while and I wanted to try to install a private UEC on a previously installed Ubuntu 10.04 system only for testing something. I did not want to use the CDInstall method since I like to do the magic not just watching that. So I have decided to install from packages . (Ok you are right I should have tried to do it from Eucalyptus source but I did not have enough time.) Unfortunately it was not straightforward. During installation of eucalyptus-cloud package I got an error. ... Setting up eucalyptus-cloud (1.6.2-0ubuntu30.2) ... restart: Unknown instance: (Than waiting long....~60 sec) eucalyptus-cloud stop/post-start, (post-start) process 26868 eucalyptus-cloud-publication start/running, process 27475 ... Hmmm. I have checked whether it is an install issue only or also a runtime problem. Checked the configuration files but they were fine. Eucalyptus start is slow and finally failed without visible error message. The cluster contro...

Short note: Wanted to make a distribution update from Hardy to Intrepid. I made a sudo bash and executed update-manager -d from this terminal but this did not show the new version. Then I have started it with gksu - press ALT+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" - and it was working. This must be a sudo environment issue. So update-manager -d does not show the new version if started from a sudo session but works fine via gksu or su.