Monday, November 21, 2011

On CoffeeScript, PostgreSQL 8.4 and Subversion

I had installed PostgreSQL 8.4 on my MacBook runnning Lion (10.7.2) for a new project I had started. After this installation my command line svn stopped working with the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/bin/svn
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

A number of google searches later I was still stuck. Then I noticed that CoffeeScript was now broken as well - I would get the following error when I was building my project:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/command.js:15
    return process.binding('stdio').writeError(line + '\n');
                   ^
Error: No such module
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/command.js:15:20
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/command.js:167:7
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/command.js:115:26
    at [object Object]. (fs.js:114:5)
    at [object Object].emit (events.js:64:17)
    at afterRead (fs.js:1080:12)
    at Object.wrapper [as oncomplete] (fs.js:252:17)

This was really annoying since much of what I do is writing code, testing code, and then checking it in - when the tools necessary to do two of those steps don't work I can't get much done. Google searches for the CoffeeScript problem also didn't really turn up much except for a messed up NODE_PATH variable. Finally, in an act of desperation I reran "sudo npm install -g coffee-script" and suddenly everything started working again. This fixing the CoffeeScript error I understand - I have no idea how this resolved the svn issue.


UPDATE

So the issue came back and the coffee install trick noted above did not work this time.

A little investigation showed that /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib was a link pointing to /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.5.dylib which no longer existed. I did notice that /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib was there so I just pointed /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.5.dylib to /usr/lib/libpq.5.3.dylib and svn was working again.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Change hostname in uPortal Quickstart

Quick and dirty - change localhost in the following two files to the server name/IP you want to use:

apache-tomcat-6.0.24/webapps/uPortal/WEB-INF/web.xml
apache-tomcat-6.0.24/webapps/uPortal/WEB-INF/classes/properties/security.properties

This will fix the problem where you deploy the quickstart to a server that is not localhost. The CAS login will now work.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Ubuntu 10.10 Black Screen after update and reinstalling NVidia Drivers

So I ran into the situation where I was getting a black screen when gdm should be starting up. I was not able to switch to a different terminal but was able to ssh into the machine. I found the following crash dump in dmesg:

[   13.473227] Pid: 1339, comm: Xorg Tainted: P            2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu 0RY206/Inspiron 531
[   13.473229] RIP: 0010:[]  [] _nv026788rm+0x44/0x176 [nvidia]
[   13.473529] RSP: 0018:ffff88012a6ddaa8  EFLAGS: 00010282
[   13.473531] RAX: ffff88012a7b0000 RBX: ffff88012a7ba000 RCX: 0000000000000001
[   13.473533] RDX: ffff88012a7b0000 RSI: 0000000000000016 RDI: ffff88012db0e000
[   13.473535] RBP: ffff88012a77df68 R08: ffff88012db20000 R09: ffff88012a7a6800
[   13.473537] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000077 R12: ffff88012a7be000
[   13.473539] R13: ffff88012db0e000 R14: ffff88012a7b0000 R15: ffff88012e6ae400
[   13.473542] FS:  00007f61416b4840(0000) GS:ffff880001f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   13.473544] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   13.473546] CR2: ffffffffa0e44082 CR3: 000000012d049000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[   13.473548] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   13.473550] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   13.473553] Process Xorg (pid: 1339, threadinfo ffff88012a6dc000, task ffff88012a6896e0)
[   13.473555] Stack:
[   13.473556]  ffffc90005447000 ffff88012db0e000 ffff88012a77dfe8 ffff88012a7be000
[   13.473559] <0> ffffc90005447000 ffffffffa05d02a2 ffff88012a7b0000 ffff88012e6ae400
[   13.473563] <0> ffff88012db0e000 ffffc90005447000 ffff8801371c3000 ffffffffa05d1259
[   13.473567] Call Trace:
[   13.473875]  [] ? _nv002159rm+0x213/0x256 [nvidia]
[   13.474182]  [] ? _nv002152rm+0x407/0x671 [nvidia]
[   13.474491]  [] ? rm_init_adapter+0x89/0xfd [nvidia]
[   13.474801]  [] ? nv_kern_open+0x5ae/0x760 [nvidia]
[   13.474808]  [] ? chrdev_open+0x10a/0x200
[   13.474811]  [] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x200
[   13.474815]  [] ? __dentry_open+0xe5/0x330
[   13.474818]  [] ? security_inode_permission+0x1f/0x30
[   13.474822]  [] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x54/0x70
[   13.474825]  [] ? finish_open+0xe8/0x1d0
[   13.474828]  [] ? dput+0xdf/0x1b0
[   13.474831]  [] ? do_last+0x86/0x460
[   13.474834]  [] ? do_filp_open+0x21b/0x660
[   13.474837]  [] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150
[   13.474840]  [] ? do_sys_open+0x69/0x170
[   13.474843]  [] ? sys_open+0x20/0x30
[   13.474847]  [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   13.474849] Code: 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 3d 00 00 00 41 ff 55 20 48 89 c3 b9 01 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 16 00 00 00 4c 89 ef 41 ff 55 20 49 89 c6 <48> 8b 05 13 e0 bd 00 48 89 45 10 8b 05 11 e0 bd 00 89 45 18 0f 
[   13.474874] RIP  [] _nv026788rm+0x44/0x176 [nvidia]
[   13.475172]  RSP 
[   13.475174] CR2: ffffffffa0e44082
[   13.475177] ---[ end trace d0d65b22157fbf8d ]---
[   20.970009] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   71.510022] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -81563436 ns)

After quite a bit of searching without any luck I tried to remember what I had done prior. This had actually happened previously and I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu to fix the problem. It was very disheartening when it happened again. I did recall that it had started happening shortly after I had setup this computer for dev work on Chromium. This problem had also started occurring after setting up to work on Chromium. One of the more invasive packages that I had installed is the gold replacement ld. Since part of the NVidia drivers involves building (I assume) kernel modules I thought this might be part of the problem - AND IT WAS! :-)

For now I just uninstalled binutils-gold, reinstalled the NVidia driver, and now X is starting up just fine.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Exclude svn files and directories from grep

# Set default grep options to ignore svn files and directories
export GREP_OPTIONS="--exclude=*\.svn* --exclude-dir=\.svn"

Saturday, March 12, 2011

grep -R IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH *

out/Debug/obj/gen/webkit/grit/webkit_resources.h:#define IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH 4544
out/Debug/obj/gen/webkit/grit/webkit_resources.h:#define IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_HOVER 4545
out/Debug/obj/gen/webkit/grit/webkit_resources.h:#define IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_PRESSED 4546
webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      
webkit/plugins/ppapi/.svn/text-base/ppb_pdf_impl.cc.svn-base:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH },
webkit/plugins/ppapi/.svn/text-base/ppb_pdf_impl.cc.svn-base:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_HOVER, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_HOVER },
webkit/plugins/ppapi/.svn/text-base/ppb_pdf_impl.cc.svn-base:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_PRESSED, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_PRESSED },
webkit/plugins/ppapi/ppb_pdf_impl.cc:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH },
webkit/plugins/ppapi/ppb_pdf_impl.cc:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_HOVER, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_HOVER },
webkit/plugins/ppapi/ppb_pdf_impl.cc:  { PP_RESOURCEIMAGE_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_PRESSED, IDR_PDF_BUTTON_FTH_PRESSED },

grep -R pdf_button_fth *

webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/.svn/text-base/webkit_resources.grd.svn-base:      
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/entries:pdf_button_fth.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/entries:pdf_button_fth_pressed.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/entries:pdf_button_fth_hover.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:pdf_button_fth.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:/svn/!svn/ver/59150/trunk/src/webkit/glue/resources/pdf_button_fth.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:pdf_button_fth_pressed.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:/svn/!svn/ver/59150/trunk/src/webkit/glue/resources/pdf_button_fth_pressed.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:pdf_button_fth_hover.png
webkit/glue/resources/.svn/all-wcprops:/svn/!svn/ver/59150/trunk/src/webkit/glue/resources/pdf_button_fth_hover.png
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      
webkit/glue/webkit_resources.grd:      

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Spreenkler Talent Labs Hackathon

Saturday was the Spreenkler Talent Labs Hackathon.

I worked with Juba and Wei on ReMa (live site until I need the google app instance for something else, repo).  From the README I checked in the morning after the hackathon:

ReMa is a social community resource management website that was worked on for the Spreenkler Talent Labs hackathon on 2011/2/12.
The basic idea was a site where members of a community could go and post:
 - Things they need
 - Services they need done / helped with
 - Things they have
 - Services they can offer
The basic idea is to help the community with resources and services the community already has. This is accompolished through each member sharing this information on an easy to use website. We had something working by the end of the hackathon but it still needs alot more polish.

I had a great time - I have not worked that hard on a project since Senior Design. Some take away notes for us:

  • Need someone to concentrate more on the business development side next time - no prep for the presentation and had not really come up with much of a business case. Juba did have a decent idea of making use of our tags for contextual ads.
  • Prior to the event, we need to spend a couple of days in the tech stack that we would be using. Juba and I had not had a chance to do much GAE stuff in the weeks leading up and it took a little bit to get back into the swing.
  • Disregard everything not core to the product (user auth for example - Juba and I spent too much time getting that "working")
Congrats to the winners: 1000 Eyes (not sure if they have a live site yet but will add link if I come across it)