2013-06-11 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] new install - No web interface

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From: Peter Cummins <pe***r@computingeverywhere.com.au>
Message Hash: fb048f7ea15b7304e319b990770e262e52ad82918ecfe6e4eeff2de0eb8b6eb3
Message ID: <51B7A2F5.50208@computingeverywhere.com.au>
Reply To: <CAESLx0LBbjPLFpc8J=JxJQMxGwAxqJDd9wL1+DtAqqMCDdXR8w@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2013-06-11 15:21:41 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:21:41 +1000

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Hi Tim,

I personally would prefer to see that it works easily and well on one 
version of one distro rather than having it probably work on a bunch of 
them.

Frankly, if you are spending your time making the software work on 
several distros then you are not spending that time improving the 
features etc.

Obviously you will have to support later distros at some point, but 
perhaps you could give a time period. Picking a figure out of the air 
here, but if you support every second LTS version I can't see a big 
problem with that. To my mind there are only two reasons to go to a 
newer distro: 1. Drivers for new hardware not supported, 2. Cool 
features in the new version. I do not see that computers that run Grase 
should even care about the cool new features, and Grase runs really well 
on hardware that is not the latest, so I do not see any reason for you 
to expend energy on keeping up with really recent distros.

Just my thoughts...

     Peter

On 12/06/2013 7:31 AM, Timothy White wrote:
>
> Thanks for letting us know Johnny. I live on a satellite connection so 
> testing with Debian 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 hasn't happened yet.
> I run Debian testing so I'd expect Debian 7 to work. The catch is 
> always what to support. At the moment it looks like I'll need to goto 
> multiple repos to support older and newer distros. We need to migrate 
> to Smarty 3 for newer distros but older ones don't have it. And libssl 
> gives us trouble too.
>
> How do people feel about which distros to support? I've wanted to try 
> to support LTS Ubuntu but even that is hard. I also don't want to 
> force people to update the whole distro every 6 months.
>
> Do Ubuntu users expect to upgrade every 6 months? At least Debian 
> stable is around longer.
>
> For now Debian 6 and Ubuntu 12.04 are known to work.
>
> Tim
>
> On 12 Jun 2013 01:04, "Johnny Solbu" <so***u@solbu.net 
> <mailto:so***u@solbu.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi. We have tried the two latest ubuntu versions and the very
>     latest Debian 7, with grase, and on each install we get No web
>     interface. there is nothing, just a blank page.
>
>     The apache log complains on:
>     ===
>     [Tue Jun 11 16:27:46 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice:
>      Object of class MDB2_Error could not be converted to int in
>     /usr/share/grase/www/radmin/classes/CronFunctions.class.php on
>     line 204
>     [Tue Jun 11 16:30:48 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] PHP
>     Warning:  require_once(smarty/Smarty.class.php): failed to open
>     stream: No such file or directory in
>     /usr/share/grase/www/radmin/includes/page_functions.inc.php on line 36
>     [Tue Jun 11 16:30:48 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] PHP Fatal
>     error:  require_once(): Failed opening required
>     'smarty/Smarty.class.php'
>     (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in
>     /usr/share/grase/www/radmin/includes/page_functions.inc.php on line 36
>     ===
>
>     Now what?
>
>     --
>     Johnny A. Solbu
>     web site, http://www.solbu.net
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