Arch install on Compaq Server

I am in need of a good os for my Compaq Proliant 3000 server and was thinking about Arch. Has anyone tried this? Basically, does Arch have all the necessary modules for a compaq array controller and raid5 support?
Please let me know your experiences.

um, this isn't really the place for that kind of question, it would probably get more attention under kernel/hardware issues. You might wanna get it moved by a forum admin.

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How I Got Boxee Working On A New Arch Install -- 3/12/2011

I thought I'd post a log of how one gets boxee-source working as of version 0.9.23.15885-2.
I recently built myself a new media center/apache server/seedbox and thought I would put arch on it. The Install was a breeze --- as far any arch install is concerned.
The only trouble I really had was with boxee --- usually available as a precompiled package, but (as is often the case) in either the AUR or an unofficial repo.
There wasn't very much useful (up-to-date) information in the boxee wiki page; I tried the repo listed but it required the python24 dependency to install, with which there are problems. See below.
There are a lot of problems with compiling boxee in arch at the moment, so I thought I'd list each one and what I did to get around them.
The three AUR packages in question:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24206
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9898
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16355
What I did:
* Downloaded boxee-source package (not the depreciated boxee package) from AUR (I used yaourt).
* Ran makepkg -si; saw what dependencies were required (also available in AUR web interface). Downloaded python24 and db4.5 dependencies.
* I noticed that db4.5 is an older version; my installed version is 5.1 !!!!
* To get python24 to compile, I had to edit the PKGBUILD script in python24:
1) First, remove this line:
[ -e /usr/lib/libdb.so ] && echo "make sure you have no other db* pkg installed" && return 1
2) Then, delete the "db4.5" dependency from "depends"
* After python24 compiled and installed (I deleted the db4.5 package source folders) I was able to being the boxee compilation process. However, I hit another roadblock when the compilation aborted at:
fatal error linux/smbno.h no such file
Based on comments in the AUR, I downloaded: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636456/smbno.h and put it in /usr/include/linux --- then the compilation would continue!
Finally, boxee was installed. However, one problem remained: boxee would not play videos. Literally nothing would happen when I chose a file to play.
I was able to fix this (again with the help of the AUR commentators) by editing the run-boxee-desktop file found in /opt/boxee/. I had to add this line:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libva.so
I had to add it in the same area the rest of the "exports" are in the file; which seemed odd to me. But after that, I was able to use boxee to maximum enjoyment.
Last edited by yochaigal (2011-03-17 06:52:04)

yochaigal wrote:The only peristent problem I'm having is that boxee randomly freezes when I play a video. I get audio but boxee freezes. if the window is maximized i can't unmaximize; i have to kill from tty or ssh. however, if it freezes with the window unmaximized, i can still move the mouse and do other things.
boxee log says this:
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705168896 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705181184 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2834795376 M:1705181184 WARNING: CHttpCacheManager::UpdateRefMap negative reference count for url http://app.boxee.tv/applications/popularity (hcm)
23:10:45 T:2830584688 M:1705181184 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2751892336 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1704927232 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705181184 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2837953392 M:1705054208 WARNING: CHttpCacheManager::UpdateRefMap negative reference count for url http://app.boxee.tv/titles/sources (hcm)
23:10:45 T:2830584688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2751892336 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file:
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file:
I didn't notice this before. We are getting the same error messages in debug. Out of curiosity, do you have all pacman updates installed? I contacted the AUR maintainer for boxee-source, but his system is operating normally. Googling this " ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png" I get a laundry list of php related stuff. My installed version of php is 5.3.6-1. Maybe it's somehow related?

Copying Arch install to new SSD

My current Arch install is on an SSD, which is 2 1/2 years old. I'm about to purchase a faster (and larger) SSD to replace it, and reuse the old one in a home server. Is this the best strategy to move my install?
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Anything wrong with that? Are there any performance or stability reasons to use another method? I've been reading over the SSD wiki, and clearly there is a lot more information available on optimizing SSD performance now. I was going on random blog posts when I set up the current install in March 2010.

DSpider wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync
Transfer it wherever you want.
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Arch install fest, UK south, anyone interested?

So I go to quite a few computer fairs and some of the time there are usually install fests going on, usually ubuntu/openSUSE/Fedora.
I was thinking of doing an Arch install fest as several computer fairs in the South, Worthing, Brighton, Horsham, Portsmouth, Southampton etc.
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Perhaps even latch onto an ubuntu install fest an offer it as an alternative, what you reckon?

Good idea. Now, if only I was located in the south…

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bash-3.00$

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How to install Oracle VM Server 2.2.0 as 32-bit mode on a 64-bit machine.

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I have AMD 64 bit machine, when I install Oracle VM Server 2.2.0, it installs as 64-bit.
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Will appreciate the steps.
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How to install Small Business Server 2008 in an existing Active Directory domain

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453, "How to install Small Business Server 2003 in an existing Active Directory domain".
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If "YES", are there any published information about the procedure ?

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But there is something that confuses me - I want to migrate from Win2003Std to SBS2008. And also, I want to keep the existing Win2003Std as a second DC for a long time.
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Invalid Key code Error while installing crystal report server 11

While installing crystal report server 11,i am facing an erro which says Invalid Key code Error.I had raised this issue to SAP customer support and attaching the conversation that we had.PLEASE HELP me to resolve the issue.
MAILS--Dear Mohit,
Thanks for the patience.
We have received the below update from the Licensing Team.
You received your permanent key in respect of these licenses - the key is for Crystal Reports Server XI.
You did not purchase these licenses for Crystal Reports Server, but purchased it for Crystal Reports and a 5-named user license for Crystal Reports was included as a special offer. The software included was version XIR2, but you elected to use version XI instead and received key .
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Hello Jessy,
The customer received their permanent key in respect of these licenses - the key is for Crystal Reports Server XI.
They did not purchase these licenses for Crystal Reports Server, they purchased Crystal Reports and a 5-named user license for Crystal Reports was included as a special offer. The software included was version XIR2, but they elected to use version XI instead and they received key .
They cannot decide to upgrade now - they must enrol these licenses in maintenance if they want to upgrade them.
Kind regards,
Rosemary
From: BOSAPASIA
Sent: 29 September 2009 05:49
To: Savage, Rosemary
Subject: FW: Crystal Reports Server Installation Issue
Importance: High
HI Rose ,
Need your assistance on the below issue.
Customer purchased Crystal Report Server XI R2 in 2005. When he is trying to install it now, he is getting an Invalid Key code Error.
He has provided us the Scanned copies of the Key code and the registration number.Can you please help and check if he can be provided with a Keycode.
Regards,
Jessy
CIC Team Lead
Customer Interaction Center
Global Support Centre India
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
Hi,
Providing you with the required details to proceed further
Registration Number-
Registration Email Address-taxmantra.support
And also please find attached the scanned copy of the Registration key we got for the Crystal report server.
Dear Mohitk,
Thank you for your information.
I checked with the concerned colleague and received the below update:
Please check from where you got this key code. If from a paper, please scan it to us. Please let them track to the original paper or email.
If you have registered the key code, please provide us the registration number or registration email address so that we will try to check for you.
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I request you to kindly check the same at your end and revert with the details.
Moreover, there are two ways for Crystal Report customer to get support.
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A learning map was provided, listed on left column.
The other is customer with only Crystal report product, the support is via SDN.
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Hi,
I am providing you with the details required to resolve the issue related to Crystal report installation,for reference of the issue please refer the mail below.
Please find attached the Scanned Document containing the details as per the details required by you.
Hope to see a quick resolution for the issue.
Dear Mohit,
Thank you for your e-mail.
As discussed, I understand that youu2019ve procured Crystal Reports Server 11 in 2006. However youu2019re facing issues with key codes while reinstalling the same. We request you to kindly provide us with below details for further assistance.
Your customer number:
Your customer name and address:
Purchase order number:
Any other products purchased along with Crystal Reports Server 11
Any S-User Id:
Any old case ID:
Please feel free to contact us if any further queries.
Hi,
I am raising this concern on behalf on Taxmantra project (Tata Consultancy Services noida).
We have bought licensed Crystal Reports Server 11 near by 2006.We are trying to install the crystal server but while installing ,we have encountered with an error message that:-
"The product key code you have entered is incorrect"
We are facing the same issue in 2006,I am attaching with this email the conversations that was held in 2006 to get the correct key code.
Please help us to resolve the issue as early as possible.
My contact number:
If you need any further information do let me know

Ajit,
By design, the product is not able to be installed under the superuser account.
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.Tony

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Temporarily disable Digital Signature Checks to Install MS SQL Server 2008 with no Internet Access

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Hi,
As far as I know, it is not recommended to disable digital signature check.
Since we are not familair with installing MS SQL server, please also refer to SQL forums below to see if experts there have more insights regarding the matter.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home
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Can office 2013 home and business be installed in windows server?

Can office 2013 home and business be installed in windows server?

Hi,
Which is the operating system version of your windows server? According to the requirements in the link below, it seems that it can be install on Windows server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
In addition, please view the detailed requirements to see if your system is supported.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Office-Home-and-Business-2013/productID.259321600
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[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

I am trying to plan an Arch install on a new laptop for dual boot with Windows 8.1, but I know there is a potential to cause huge problems so I have been trying to read and learn about the hard disk partition structure and how I might install the rEFInd boot files so that I am still able to boot Windows once Arch is installed. (Unfortunately for some tasks such as updating the maps on my satnav box Windows is essential). However I am really quite unsure if I am doing the right thing in the way I am thinking about the Arch install so I would appreciate any help from experts on the forum.
The laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p which came with Windows 8 pre-installed, with the option to upgrade to Windows 8.1. The upgrade was completed without issue and I then looked into the question of hard drive partitions and boot. I had read posts on the Ubuntu forums about users who had installed Ubuntu on this same laptop and ended up being unable to boot Windows afterwards so I wanted to tread very carefully before executing anything which might cause really major damage. I had also read on the Lenovo forums replies about people who had replaced the hard drive and installed linux only to find that they could not boot to the recovery partitions, with replies from Lenovo moderators saying that if the partition structure had been changed then the laptop would have to be sent back to Lenovo for a factory repair.
On this laptop to get into the bios or boot options you do not just press the power button and hit an F key, but instead there is a special small "OneKey Recovery" button next to the power jack, which opens up with options for BIOS setup and boot options as well as normal boot or recovery. This OneKey Recovery button is therefore needed to boot a usbkey - the power button only allows it to boot to windows presumably until/unless a different bootloader and NVRAM entry is amended.
I have done all the initial ( safe!)changes necessary to move to the point at which I can execute the Arch install. From within Windows (switched off fastboot, and shrunk the "C:" drive to make space for linux partitions). I have also switched off Secure Boot from the BIOS, and made sure that Windows still boots up fine.
The current arch install iso (February 2014) boots under uefi just fine - and of course once booted I have access to the gdisk programme. That certainly showed the pre-existing partitions on the drive (8 partitions with partition number 2 being the EFI partition, and three recovery partitions!) with a GPT partition table, and it should therefore be possible to make the necessary new linux partitions in the now unallocated space on the disk that was freed up with the internal disk management facility within Windows 8.1. So at that point I created three partitions for a root partition (type 8300), a swap partition (type 8200) and another type 8300 partition which will become /opt in the installed Arch system.
In order to try and not make any changes to the partition structure I let the three new linux partitions be number 9, 10 and 11.
I am told that for a GPT disk it is a definite no-no to try to create more than one EFI partition. So I will need to use the existing EFI partition to place the rEFInd files and the kernel once I install Arch.
In this (Y510p) laptop the EFI partition contains the following structure:
BOOT/ - containing only boot.sdi
BOOTSECT.BAK
EFI/ which contains two directories Boot/ and Microsoft/
so EFI/Boot/ contains only Boot64.efi which is likely a fallback copy of the Windows 8.1 bootloader
and EFI/Microsoft/ contains a Boot/ directory - so
EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ contains loads of language specific directories like en-GB/
plus bootmgfw.efi (which I believe is the Windows main efi loader file)
bootmgr.efi
memtest.efi
The scheme that I am planning to use which I have previously used in pure Arch uefi machines, is that /boot is a directory in the root partition, /. That way /boot is an ext4 directory and will contain the kernel and initramfs plus the rEFInd linux config file.
Then I can mount the EFI (vfat) partition as /boot/efi and so I can then make a /boot partition under /. Then the EFI /BOOT/ directory would be seen in Linux as /boot/efi/BOOT/ and the Windows efi stuff would be in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Microsoft/Boot/ in which case I would presume that I have to make a new directory in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ and put the refind stuff including the filesystem drivers there, and let the kernel go into the (ext4) /boot/ directory which would be preferred! However I am not 100% confident that this is what will work and I need to read more before trying to do the install. The thing that concerns me is how the system will handle the uefi boot process, and whether it would auto-detect the Windows efi file as well as the Arch refind efi file once the system has started up?
... and then there is the issue of the NVRAM entries and I am no longer confident that if I use the usual tools to create an entry (efiboomgr or bcfg), that I will get a successful dual boot system!
There is still a chance that I would irrevocably damage being able to boot to the Windows and Recovery partition boot options by messing up the EFI and/or the NVRAM so I have to tread very very carefully with this.
If anyone has gone through this kind of dual boot install with a Windows 8 or 8.1 machine using rEFInd for the bootloader, and can offer advice or help here I would very much appreciate it. I have another pure Arch system which uses rEFInd that works extremely well, but it seems that dual boot with uefi is a rather more complex animal than a pure linux system!
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-06-25 17:41:12)

Error while installing MS Project Server 2013(trial) on Sharepoint 2013(CAL)

My problem is that I get the following error:
trial editions and licensed editions of SharePoint, Project Server, and Office Web Apps products may not be installed on the same server
when I try to install MS Project Server 2013(180 days-evaluation) over a Sharepoint 2013(MAPS license).
What does exactly this error say?
Do I need to have Sharepoint and MS Project Server with same type of license?
If so, I suppose I'll have to remove Sharepoint(MAPS) and install a 180 days-evaluation Sharepoint. Will this re-installation be acceptable or I'll get some license type incompatibility issues?

Hello. You are correct, you will need to have the same license types either both trials or both licensed. Uninstalling/ reinstalling with trials should work fine or build another trial farm. Paul
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