Posted by sammyg on November 9, 2010 at 11:43pm
Firstly, many, many thanks for all the incredible work on Pantheon. Seriously cool stuff.
I've been trying to install Mercury 1.1 on Rackspace and got as far as Hudson running happily. When I try to build 'mercury_init', Hudson comes up with errors during the postfix setup - relevant chunk of console output below.
Lengthy googling of whiptail and terminal.debconf has only revealed a whole load of very old and unresolved bugs concerning whiptail's manual use and its incompatibility with some terminals, though my google-fu may not have been at its best.
Any ideas?
Failed to open terminal.debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!
Use of uninitialized value $ret in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 132, <STDIN> line 6.
Use of uninitialized value $ret in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 133, <STDIN> line 6.
Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 134, <STDIN> line 6.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Finished: FAILURE
Comments
What is the OS you are using?
What is the OS you are using? Doesn't Rackspace have an instance already?
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
I've used Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid as recommended for Mercury 1.1 beta. I've only come across some AMIs and a Linode script. [Get]Pantheon, the service, runs on Rackspace. I'll be using a vanilla LAMP + APC + Varnish etc. stack otherwise, but I'm so nearly there and Pantheon is going to be much better than anything I build as I'm only really an accidental sysadmin.
I feel you. I have done, many
I feel you.
I have done, many installs over the past week on Linode with no problem. Not sure about Rackspace. I am doing it on 64bit-Ubuntu 10.04. Just follow the guide and it all worked out. Maybe you should give them a try, its money back on there, so you can just give it a try and see how it goes, then you can get a return if you need too.
I'm not sure about Rackspace as I have not set-up one on there. I have set it up on VPS.net, and that went well, but you need two nodes over there, but then again, its $2 a day to just get two nodes, so that is nice.
I'll have a look at those
I'll have a look at those if I don't get somewhere soon - thanks for the heads up! From the sounds of it, some people have succeeded on Rackspace with at least one of the project Mercury versions. No doubt I've made one of those trivial errors :-) I think version 1.2 is going to ship with an idiot proof install process, which will suit me well.
[SOLVED]
Well. Whatever the problem was, it was definitely my fault entirely - not surprising, I'm really a designer.
Solution: try doing it again a couple of times :-)
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