Fixes for major installer meltdown in the last 48+ hours

[cpg]

Hello! We have released a fix for a very rare two simultaneous issues/breakages in upstream dependencies that affect the ability to install Amahi.

The symptom is that the Amahi installer server crashes and you cannot connect to localhost:2000. Not even restarting the amahi-installer service helps.

There were two issues:

• One was dhcp and dhclient needed simultaneous explicit updates, because just installing dhcp caused an incompatibility not set as a dependency with older dhclient.
• The second one was that a critical ruby library called rack released a version 1.2.1 which broke under the version of ruby we are using. This bug was reported and a fix was issued. In the mean time we worked around it for the benefit of our users in the Amahi installer.

All should be back to normal now after a very looooong day of tracking this down. If you see issues please report them!

Thanks for your patience!

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The gory details:

dhcp and dhclient must be installed/updated simutaneously, as the latest dhcp conflicts with one file from the dhclient in the DVD!

rack 1.2.1 must be uninstalled and 1.1.0 installed. as root:

Code: Select all

gem install -v 1.1.0 rack gem uninstall -v 1.2.1 rack

[barry]

Don't forget to restart the installer while you're in the terminal.

service amahi-installer restart

Once I restarted it worked for me.

[bigfoot65]

Yes, good point. Great to hear things are working for you now.

[mwp]

CPG,

You posted a fix for the installer here: http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1485

That continued and completed my install. Do I need to reinstall or otherwise finish, or am I good to go?

Thanks.

[rampage537]

You should be good to go