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Sometimes when deploying a service (and more specifically a new unit) for a Juju charm, an error occurs and there seems to be no way of finding out exactly what it was. Is there some sort of output log of all commands the unit ran?

Bruno Pereira

brilliant ;)

jrg

hey, did i do a good enough job with making sure it's clear there is a third-party ppa involved with this?

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Octavian Damiean

Make it bigger!

jrg

h1 big enough? :P

Octavian Damiean

7:01 PM

More like this.

jrg

@OctavianDamiean okokokokokokok!

dangit @JorgeCastro, i was writing that title for the search engine, not humans! :P

Octavian Damiean

@JorgeCastro You missed something in your blog post ...

Jorge Castro

ubuntu is in the domain name

and the tag is first.

jrg

hm, true.

Octavian Damiean

A picture of Jorge orLANDO Calrissian.

jrg

7:04 PM

aren't you clever?

Jorge Castro

heh

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wisemonkey

Is Roland here?

Octavian Damiean

:D

Jorge Castro

hello, I am Lando Castro, I am the administrator of this facility

Octavian Damiean

Welcome to jujuspin.

jrg

7:11 PM

hey, guys. i'm about to dump a bunch of questions that are now dupes into the regulators room - care to join me?

Octavian Damiean

~~No.~~ Sure. :D

jrg

ok, i see how it is. :D

Jorge Castro

I can vote in about an hour

so I'll catch the backlog

though

jrg

ok.

Jorge Castro

the review page is catching those now, so I'll run into them anyway

jrg

7:16 PM

fancy.

Bruno Pereira

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Q: Failure to toubleshoot a juju charm deployment

My environments.yaml looks like this: environments: test: type: local control-bucket: juju-a14dfae3830142d9ac23c499395c2785999 admin-secret: 6608267bbd6b447b8c90934167b2a294999 default-series: oneiric juju-origin: distro data-dir: /home/bruno/projects/juju juju bootst...

juju charms

Alvar

HOLY CRAP!

thomas ward has a virus on his computer!!!!!!!

(the evil one)

just got a spam message addressed to all his contacts :O

jrg

@Alvar does he?

Alvar

got jsut a hyperlink in an email

and chrome killed the page it hade a lot of mean material...

Bruno Pereira

@JorgeCastro lol, when I said "you rock" I did not imagine this alter ego of your's "lando castro" :P

jrg

7:22 PM

@Alvar don't see anything here.

oops.

yeah...

@jrg gz for you new badge

jrg

New Humble Bundle

Marco Ceppi

7:26 PM

@JorgeCastro Which ones

Alvar

EMAILED HIM ABOUT THE VIRUS...

sry caps

wisemonkey

@jrg yup just bought one :D

jrg

i'm hoping i'll be able to snag it this time... last three bundles i've missed. :P

Bruno Pereira

drool

jrg

i like how the custom moderator flag message thing minimum message length is just short enough for me to type in duplicate! and leave it like that. :P

Well hello @DavidPlanella! Welcome to the chatroom.

wisemonkey

7:37 PM

@jrg How can u miss? :-o

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jrg

@wisemonkey no way to pay for the bundles...? :S (being underage sucks sometimes)

wisemonkey

@jrg ohh yea I hear u :) but frankly growing up sucks as well I hope I can get paid for studying :P

jrg

@wisemonkey haha. :P

wisemonkey

I need to seriously think about phds :P

Octavian Damiean

7:46 PM

should read documentation

rlemon

Anyone here wanna play apache expert?

I'm trying to get PDO working.

apache php mysql

wisemonkey

nope but I can play as apache test subject

:P

Marco Ceppi

@rlemon Stands up

George Edison

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jrg

@GeorgeEdison so this oneiric is in a VM?

George Edison

8:00 PM

Yes.

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi openweek, global jam, and developer week

wisemonkey

@GeorgeEdison: host OS still thinks there was inactivity for 10 minutes?

George Edison

@wisemonkey Not the host, the guest.

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro done

wisemonkey

so ur guest keeps turning off monitor or host? Can u try those settings in both host and guest if u haven't already?

George Edison

8:06 PM

@wisemonkey No, no... the host is running Windows and is completely independent of the guest.

The guest is Oneiric and turns of the guest display after 10 minutes of inactivity.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison check the virtualbox settings on the host.

it could be controlling it somehow...

George Edison

VirtualBox?

jrg

yeah

George Edison

It doesn't have an option for that.

That's supposed to be managed by the guest.

I suppose I could disable ACPI...

jrg

no power management settings host-side?

George Edison

8:08 PM

For the host OS, you mean?

jrg

no, in virtualbox. i seem to remember something last time I was playing with VB...

Octavian Damiean

My goddamn server pisses me off ...

jrg

@OctavianDamiean your huge dl380?

Octavian Damiean

Does anyone know what apt-get would suddenly say something like this?
Unable to change to (unreachable)// - chdir (2: No such file or directory)

No, it is just a virtual box instance.

Jorge Castro

man I really butchered those ads

George Edison

8:10 PM

@jrg Nothing that would shut off the display server.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison ok, out of ideas here.

George Edison

Yeah, someone posted one though.

I'll see if it works.

Thomas Ward

holy hell

somoene hacked my gmail

now i have to utilize secured emails

and somehow lock out that gmail

jrg

and your gravatar.

Thomas Ward

well that's easy to fix

i changed the primary email on here

jrg

8:12 PM

oh....

George Edison

@ThomasWard First step: change your Gmail password.

By the way, I guess you saw the message earlier?

54 mins ago, by Alvar

thomas ward has a virus on his computer!!!!!!!

Thomas Ward

yeah i locked out the passcodes

George Edison

So you should be fine now.

Thomas Ward

its basically a randomstring from /dev/urandom now

and it was a hacker, @Alvar

i use only linux systems, so the likelihood of a virus is low

hackers, more likely

Alvar

@ThomasWard wow...

George Edison

8:15 PM

Yeah, I figured it would probably be someone hacking in.

...also, doesn't Gmail offer IMAP access?

Alvar

but WHY? :P

George Edison

Do you have it enabled?

Thomas Ward

@Alvar not sure

but its now running on a passcode generated by /dev/urandom

Jorge Castro

juju.ubuntu.com/CharmSchool/2December11

2

Thomas Ward

so there's almost no way they'd get it

Jorge Castro

8:16 PM

@GeorgeEdison sign up if you want to come!

Thomas Ward

@George they do

Alvar

lame :/

Thomas Ward

but you have to enable it

Alvar

do you have a backup email for sending lost passwd?

Thomas Ward

per user

@Alvar they guessed the code

but didnt change it

so i got in

Alvar

8:17 PM

hu...

Thomas Ward

and changed it

Alvar

cool

and changed..

jrg

@ThomasWard two factor auth is now a must-have for your gmail.

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Cool! Charm school!

Alvar

was your code hard to break?

Thomas Ward

8:19 PM

its a 64char alphanumeric mixed case with symbols passcode

i havent changed it in over 2 years

so someone could have hijacked it

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro "Immutable Page"

Alvar

that's harder than mine...

jrg

well there's your problem @ThomasWard. . .

Alvar

hard to re learn...

Thomas Ward

@jrg dont remind me

i'm alredady pissed enough

jrg

8:20 PM

sorry.

Octavian Damiean

@ThomasWard You should activate the 2-step verification.

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi ugh, crap, that's right

investigating ....

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George Edison

@MarcoCeppi: The Trello interface is slow... but other than that, I like it.

Jorge Castro

it's slow when boards get large

but day to day seems fine

rlemon

8:26 PM

@MarcoCeppi Acknowledged your now standing... how are ya

Thomas Ward

@OctavianDamiean yeah just did that

@OctavianDamiean will that revoke any other systems from accessing?

or do i still need to contact google for that?

jrg

@ThomasWard yup

Octavian Damiean

Yes.

Thomas Ward

given that i changed the passcodes

jrg

it'll revoke everything else.

Thomas Ward

8:28 PM

ah good

that should help :P

Marco Ceppi

@rlemon Ready to help with Apache

rlemon

@MarcoCeppi I think I have the pdo_mysql package installed.

@MarcoCeppi is there an easy way to check? (clearly it is not working correctly)

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, with dpkg

dpkg --get-selections | grep pdo

rlemon

rdl@rdl-ubuntu-work:/etc/php5/apache2$ dpkg --get-selections | grep pdo
ifupdown					install

i assume then this is telling me no

(sorry I am learning)

Marco Ceppi

@rlemon Correct, it's not installed

well...

what does dpkg --get-selections | grep php5 produce?

rlemon

8:38 PM

libapache2-mod-php5				install
php5-cli					install
php5-common					install
php5-gd						install
php5-mcrypt					install
php5-mysql					install

Greg

The unity launcher is a little confusing ... is there a tool to create launchers, because dragging onto it doesn't always work if you're using a Java-based app, or an app through Wine, etc.

rlemon

all of the 'tutorials' say use sudo pecl install pdo

do I need PEAR for PDO

or can I just get PDO

Bruno Pereira

I hate down-voting (yeah yeah I know my stats say the otherwise)... Is there not a better way to tell user "this words that make up this sentence written by you kinda... suck"?

Greg

@rlemon Doesn't phpinfo() tell you what PDO packages are installed?

Octavian Damiean

This book, I don't know if you can call it a book is awesome!

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rlemon

8:41 PM

@Greg at this point i assume none.. however a quick search on the phpinfo page listed:

PDO

PDO support	enabled
PDO drivers	mysql

Additional .ini files parsed /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/gd.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/pdo_mysql.ini

Marco Ceppi

@rlemon pecl and pear are two different things, but IIRC pdo should be in a package

@rlemon I think the PDO driver comes with the php5-mysql package

rlemon

I should have installed it from scratch. I used tasksel to install apache php5 mysql

Greg

@MarcoCeppi it does

Marco Ceppi

@rlemon I disagree with that statement :)

What makes you think the PDO driver isn't working?

rlemon

@MarcoCeppi trying to connect to the DB with PDO and nothing but errors.

Marco Ceppi

8:45 PM

Example error?

rlemon

yea nevermind.. all of this was for not.

I was working from www/www/ and displaying www/

ugh FML

was all like I CHANGE U Y U NO CHANGED!!!! ohh, i'm a moron

my bad

at least I now know about sudo apt-cache search term

Thomas Ward

@alvar has the email spam stopped?

Alvar

@ThomasWard I only got 1 email :P

so yes :)

Thomas Ward

:P

you're fortunate

others got it worse

so i'm still dealing with the fallouts :/

Alvar

ouch..

I'm a Linux user I am fortunate by nature...

o yeah prodigy...

Jorge Castro

8:54 PM

@GeorgeEdison hey so mark and I were thinking

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