ClearFoundation

Hi all,

For those of you running ClearOS Enterprise 6.1.0 Beta 1, you can now upgrade to the pre-release of Beta 2. Details about the release can be found in the Release Notes.

Step 1 - Yum upgrade

Get to the command line and use yum to upgrade:



Step 2 - Reboot

Webconfig has moved and a new kernel is available, so the easiest thing to do is to type "reboot" to restart the system.

Step 3 - Reset the User/Group (LDAP) system

In order to support Windows 8, we have upgraded Samba to version 3.6.x. There were some LDAP changes as well, so it is necessary to reset the user/group system (sorry) along with the Samba configuration. In case you are wondering "samba-init" doesn't initialize Samba, but instead adds the necessary overlay to users/groups to support Windows Networks.



Step 3 - Reset the Squid Web Proxy

The configuration handling for the Squid web proxy was completely redone. If installed, run the following to set it back to the default:



Step 4 - New Apps!

If you would like to install packages via Marketplace, change enabled=1 for the clearos-updates-testing repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/clearos.repo. Marketplace will then be able to install the apps available in the testing repository. If you prefer the command line, here are the new apps in beta 2:

- app-bandwidth
- app-dmz
- app-egress-firewall
- app-multiwan
- app-mysql
- app-nat-firewall
- app-network-visualiser
- app-ntp
- app-protocol-filter
- app-shell-extension-core
- app-ssh-server

The following packages from ClearCenter were also released:

- app-active-directory
- app-antimalware-updates
- app-dynamic-dns
- app-intrusion-protection-updates
- app-security-audit
- app-system-monitor

You can purchase these apps via Marketplace. If you already have them included with your ClearCenter subscription, you can use the wc-yum command to install them, e.g.

Wohoo! great work Peter and Team

Everything looks good so far - commands run without issues upgrading from beta1. (For those with the clearos-devel installed you'll need to remove nss-tools first, and also remove /etc/yum.repos.d/clearos-devel.repo as it's been replaced by clearos-beta.repo)

One small issue - i've enabled the clearos-updates-testing repo, but when I try to install something from the marketplace it complains that the Marketplace is disabled for this system?

Nice! Install beta 2 tommorow... Bedtime... Zzzz.

Many thanks Peter, you've just answered several questions I had after the upgrade I performed earlier today! Off to give it a whirl...

Everything looks good to me, I'm not getting the same issue with the Marketplace as Tim. One minor issue so far though, the one app I'm particularly anxious to use is the Bandwidth/QoS app, which installs fine but the web config page only lets me configure basic rules, whereas I was anticipating additional advanced options as seen in ClearOS 5.2. A quick browse seems to show advanced.php files in the app folder so I'm guessing the capability is there somewhere (but I freely admit I have no idea what I'm looking for). Is there a simple fix for this?

EDIT: after a bit of novice browsing I noticed /app/bandwidth/advanced/add as an anchor in the php file. As a workaround to add advanced rules, it seems I can manually use this url for now, hopefully they'll actually apply!

That was a bug that was fixed a few days ago....the default should be to have Marketplace enabled, but I mistakenly had it the opposite way round.

So, if you see this message, login to your ClearCenter account here and navigate to "Systems --> System Details".

Set "Web-Services" to enabled.

For those registering a new system, this is not necessary.

B.

Ben Chambers wrote:
That was a bug that was fixed a few days ago....the default should be to have Marketplace enabled, but I mistakenly had it the opposite way round.

So, if you see this message, login to your ClearCenter account here and navigate to "Systems --> System Details".

Set "Web-Services" to enabled.

For those registering a new system, this is not necessary.

B.

I was getting this error also. Now fixed by following these instructions.


I'm still getting:

404 Page Not Found

The page you requested was not found

when trying to shutdown the system using the webconfig applet. I can shutdown from the command line. This error wasn't present before upgrade to Beta 2. The page not found error occurs at:

server_ip_address:81/app/shutdown/confirm_shutdown

UPDATE: I got the page not found error before following the instructions from Ben. It occurred again while I was logged in at ClearCenter and is still there after logging out of ClearCenter.

I also had troubles with the marketplace when try to upgrade a old beta 1 install. What i did was a new fresh install of ClearOS Enterprise Beta 1. Then "yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing upgrade". After that i deleted the old system at ClearSDN. Next step was to register the new install via the marketplace app and enabling the clearos-updates-testing repo. Now everything is working fine.

I had some trouble activating the directory server but this was mentioned by Peter and i did the steps he suggested. Problem solved.

there is a bug in the shutdown app. When i try to shutdown the server a page with the following text is shown "404 Page Not Found. The page you requested was not found". This is also mentioned in a other post.

I notice that the account manager-app isn't finished yet.

I can't wait for the final. I'm very positive about this beta 2. I love the speed of the new framework. Good job Clearfoundation!

Ben Chambers wrote:
...So, if you see this message, login to your ClearCenter account here and navigate to "Systems --> System Details".

Set "Web-Services" to enabled..
Thanks Ben, all sorted!

As a feature request, would it be possible to add a filter to the market place for "installed / not installed" apps? or distinguish them by colour in some way?

I also had some troubles how to see what's installed or not installed. You can see it if the app is installed by the missing checkbox. All apps not installed have a checkbox for installing. A filter for installed and not installed apps is good idea to quickly see what's going on.