DA & Debian 5.0

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bobeq

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Debian Lenny isn't listed as currently supported, so is it possible to use it with DA without any problems?

I don't know if DA will crash after dist-upgrade. Is it safe or should I install it on clean Lenny?
 
i'm also interested to make an apt-get dist-upgrade, there are some issue about it?
 
A clean install is not possible yet. I have tried it, but it doesn't work.

For production systems, I don't recommend upgrading to Debian 5 yet. Even if it is working, DirectAdmin is not supporting it. So maybe it will break in a later DA update, because the DA developers are not testing on Lenny.
 
I have just installed a new Debian Etch system with DirectAdmin on our Xen cluster. After that, I upgraded it to Lenny with aptitude:

aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

Although I haven't been able to do a lot of stability testing yet, I haven't found any problems. Apache and FTP and the other services seem to work well. I also tried a reboot and everything starts up nicely.
 
i just have install debian 5.0 with directadmin.
Everything is installed without any problem.
I check and in the next days better the server for any problem.
Seems that debian 5.0 is at least working beta stage for directadmin
 
dicktump said:
A clean install is not possible yet. I have tried it, but it doesn't work.

For production systems, I don't recommend upgrading to Debian 5 yet. Even if it is working, DirectAdmin is not supporting it. So maybe it will break in a later DA update, because the DA developers are not testing on Lenny.
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what you mean doesn't work? What errors you have?
I have install it without any problem.
 
I get apt errors on a fresh Lenny install with the DA setup.sh script. I installed Lenny the same way I always install Etch.
 
dicktump said:
I get apt errors on a fresh Lenny install with the DA setup.sh script. I installed Lenny the same way I always install Etch.
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can you post here your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
seems that you have problem in the install. May some debian repository missing?
 
I have DA running without problems on two boxes that were Etch when DA was installed and later upgraded to Lenny by replacing "etch" with "lenny" in /etc/apt/sources.list and doing dist-upgrade after that. No problems.

Exim and ProFTP were Debian packages, but I compiled ProFTP using custombuild the other night (after removing proftpd-basic first) and plan to do the same later this week with Exim as well, so all the "critical apps" will be handled by Custombuild.
 
blueice said:
can you post here your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
seems that you have problem in the install. May some debian repository missing?
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I have created the Xen virtual server again, to check the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the error. But for some reason, it is working fine now. I haven't done anything different, since this is a standard installation script. Maybe something was wrong with the Debian mirror or something ... that's the only thing that might differ sometimes.
 
Well there are definitely some problems with DA and Lenny:

4gb seg fixup, process dataskq (pid 6166), cs:ip 73:b7e6dee7

and the same goes for exim and sorts. If you check it out, it's because they are not using any dynamic libraries (at least it seems that's the problem):

root@cp:/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild# ldd /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq
not a dynamic executable
root@cp:/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild#

And after the Lenny upgrade you need to rebuild it. Can any of the DA-people tell me if this is right? Same goes for exim.

I'd love to know which sources are being use to build the .deb that's inside /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/packages so I can rebuild it myself.
 
dicktump said:
The 4gb seg fixup warning thing is usually something only happening on Xen virtual servers. If you use Google, you can find multiple solutions for this issue. You can install the libc6-xen package. This blog post has a few other things you can try: http://blog.kabisa.nl/2009/01/30/4gb-seg-fixup-errors-on-debian-lenny-xen-domu/
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And you think I didn't knew this? :P

The case is that DA has static build exim and datataskq, which are using the old libc's. By that, the only processes that are giving these errors after the suggested steps are datataskq and exim.
 
Zwerver said:
And you think I didn't knew this? :P

The case is that DA has static build exim and datataskq, which are using the old libc's. By that, the only processes that are giving these errors after the suggested steps are datataskq and exim.
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Well, I don't think about what people do know and what they don't.

Have you tried recompiling Exim?
 
dicktump said:
Well, I don't think about what people do know and what they don't.

Have you tried recompiling Exim?
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Yes, that fixed the exim-problems (because it's dynamically linked now) but not the datataskq and directadmin ones, which are static linked as well....
 
i update to lenny but even it try to send an email (create user, resend passwd etc) it give me a blank page ...

how can i solve this BIG problem?
 
anyone know when DA's team is going to release the upgrade for make DA fully compatible with debian 5.0? i've some problem with exim and 4gb fixup warning..
 
As information for everyone: I've upgraded my system to Lenny last week in a heavy-load production server, recompiled all software that didn't came from precompiled packages and all is working perfectly, for now.

I just have a strong memory leak with PHP5+APC under FastCGI since the upgrade: all static php-cgi processes never stop eating memory and I've to gracefully restart Apache every few hours, thus reloading mod_fastcgi and respawning the processes. This has nothing to do with DA, but I hope someone will find the leak soon and fix it, because it makes APC opcode caching less useful.
 
spamd issue

Looks like my clean debian 5 install was missing some perl modules:
Code: 
...
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF/Util.pm line 30.
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF/Result.pm line 27.
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF/Result.pm line 27.
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF/MacroString.pm line 33.
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF/MacroString.pm line 33.
Mar 27 02:17:20 hostname spamd[16018]: Can't locate NetAddr/IP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SPF
...

Install the following perl modules to fix this.
Code: 
apt-get install liberror-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl
 
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