Nervetree

What they meant to say is you cant use local repositories unless you have a static IP.

Capistrano executes the svn command from the other server so localhost is relative to the other server not my nifty laptop.

So I need a remote static ip install of SVN

I need to install subversion my 64 bit dev platform to ease Rails deployments. It ran Mandrake 2005 ( this is one of the first versions that are 64 bit for mandrake ). When I tried to get it running it wanted to install libraries for a newer version of KDE. I was afraid that this would break the current setup, or more over be a P.O.T.A later on. So I figured I should upgrade the OS.

Here is the saga. My dev machine is a gaming AMD64 3000 with 2 gigs of ram and hardware mirrored 200 GB SATA RAID drives

I tried installing mod dav svn for the older version of Apache2 I had installed. Apparently it was the 32 bit version. The only versions of mod dav svn I have are for 64 bit Apache.

Reinstall Apache use newer version.

Impressive speed bump

Install mod dav svn install subversion. required libraries want to overwrite kde_core…. NO WAY.

Time for a full reinstall

• Downloaded Mandriva 2006.0 DVD

1

• installed
• wouldn’t boot, problem with raid array.

2

• install again ( did I do it wrong )
• nope
• broke up raid set formatted each disk indepentantly, computer hung on formatting disk 2
• reboot retry, formatted no problem

This wasn’t the issue

3

• installed again
• 2006.0 raid driver detects if you have raid and tries to set up regardless if hardware raid is already taking care of it
• Downloaded Mandriva 2006.0 Core updates.
• core updates, fixes raid issue
• nvidia driver for 6200 doesn’t work. X won’t boot.

4

• Reinstall Repatch, to try to use a different video card ( inseting the core updates after its installed skips the section to choose video card. )
• choose generic video card.
• patch
• still wont boot
• during boot, the video card driver shown isnt what I installed.

5

• reinstall, choose the generic nvidia card ( the driver not written by nvidia )
• patch, just for kicks verify the generic driver is still selected. It wasn’t
• fixed.
• kde boots. There is no file manager. its worthless.

its getting late ( about 2 am )

6

• reinstall
• repatch
• oops forgot to verify video card

7

• reinstall
• repatch
• oops

8

* So I Reinstalled another … and that stayed up.

this reminds me of this monty python skit

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**FATHER**
Listen, lad, I built this kingdom up from nothing.  
All I had when I started was swamp ... 

Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, 
but I built it all the same ... 

just to show 'em. 

It sank into the swamp.  

So I built a another one ... 
that sank into the swamp.  

I built another one ...  
That fell over and THEN sank into the swamp ....  

So I built another ... 

and that stayed up.

... And that's what your gonna get, lad: 

the most powerful kingdom in this island.

**PRINCE**
But I don't want any of that, I'd rather ...

**FATHER**
Rather what?

**PRINCE**
I'd rather ... just ... sing ...

MUSIC INTRO

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• reinstall
• make same software selections but also choose multimedia computer ( gimp xmms… )
• KDE WORKS
• set up system.
• samba lacks place to enter which workgroup the computer belongs to
• vncserver wont work
• am I connecting correctly?
• wait I dealt with this a while ago during the 2005 installation.
• 64 bit vncserver that ships with mandrake wont work ( don’t know why )
• deleted it, installed the 32 bit version ( works fine )
• install ruby
• install rails
• mysql wont allow tcp connections, I think its getting config information from more than the my.cnf
• install ruby mysql
• installed fcgi
• installed mod_fcgi
• fastcgi works no errors in logfiles.
• tried installing ruby fcgi
• wont work needs fastcgi headers and compiled to 64 bit
• unistalled fastcgi
• compiled from source
• installed ruby fcgi
• works
• printer driver won’t work ( still have to work on this one )
• samba workgroup is incorrect. ( still have to work on this one )
• SVN works.

The sun is coming up

Total time… one weekend. What a waste of time.