Friday, 6 February 2004

Reboot in unix

After working on and off with unix for years, this is the first time I have ever had to restart a computer. I had no idea how... (init 6). I thought that in itself was pretty funny... on of the first things that everybody learns when using windows is how to restart it, and the first solution to any problem is to shutdown, wait for the ram to clear, and restart.

For figuring out what the problem is, I am looking at some eclipse bugs. I think that the problem is that WSAD 5.0 (which I am using) is built on Eclipse 2.0, which I don't think is very good (but miles beyond 1.0). I had a co-worker try it out with E2.1, and got a totally different error messages, one that was actually descriptive. I think that the problem was that the box only had SSH 2 running on it, while WSAD 5 only has support for SSH 1. *sigh* It's nuts, I am having all my trouble because versions are not playing well together. I don't even want to think of the headaches involved in making things that don't work together now play nice like.
Listening to: the annoying people in the next cube who won't shut up and go and leave me in peace or talk quietly. I think that I need my own cone of silence.


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  1. Ryan6 February 2004 at 10:38

    The Eclipse plugin architecture isn't supposed to change between 2.0 and 2.1. You should be able to grap the Eclipse 2.1 CVS plugin and pop it into WSAD 5, replacing the old one (back it up first).

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  2. Jim6 February 2004 at 10:44

    I tried doing that with the jar from bug 45138, but it didn't work. I think that I may have to unjar it and rejar it like someone commented about having to do.
    I'm still trying out different things like that. The network is slow today, so we'll see. I am going to try out E3.0M6 while I download E2.1.

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  3. Kibbee6 February 2004 at 12:22

    Yeah, it's kind of funny, cause to reboot in windows, where everything is gui based, you just go start, shut down. In Linux, you can do pretty muc the same thing.
    But when you're working on the command line, there's a few things you can do. That init 6 thing, i had no idea about. which I guess would put the computer into runlevel 6, which would start the reboot. I usually just type reboot, or halt. They are pretty self explanitory.

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  4. Jim6 February 2004 at 14:04

    I was able to get E3.0M6 to work when I turned on "use ssh2". I can't command line ssh -1 into the box, so it's just a problem with it not using the "insecure" ssh1. And I can't even install the solution to use ssh2, because it doesn't seem to work with E2.0, only 2.1 and up (it's in E3M6).
    *sigh* But I think that soon I am going to get WSAD 5.1 which I think that I will be able to use that solution. I just can't yet.
    http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-cvsssh2/index.html

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  5. Jim6 February 2004 at 14:22

    Ryan, I didn't ignore your suggestion. I did try the 2.1 plugin and it "almost" works: it connects to the respoitory but does not commit / see any projects. I'm going to go ask boss when I get WSAD 5.1 (hopefully it is based on E2.1 or better)

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  6. Ryan6 February 2004 at 14:29

    The plugin architecture changed in 3.0, which is a shame because the CVS stuff in 3.0 is pretty nice. Anyway, plugins in 3.0M6 won't work in 2.0 or 2.1.

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  7. Jim6 February 2004 at 16:29

    check out the site I put in a couple of comments ago. The plugin is actually part of the head stream as of M6. I really don't know how it works, but it says that it will work for 2.1.* up to 3.0M5 (and after it is already there, so you don't have to dl it.)

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