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I'm logging this here because I haven't found a solution to it yet; I'll add one if/when I do.

My installation of Oxygen which has been working fine for a couple of years, currently at 15.2. I use XEP a lot. Recently I updated the OS (from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, both 64-bit), which may or may not be the cause of the problem, which is this:

When I run a transformation scenario which does XML-XSLT-XSLFO-PDF using XEP, I get this error:

invalid file (bad magic number): Exec format error

However, when I run the same process on the command line, starting with the FO file, it works fine. The XEP license file and xep.xml file are in place, and haven't been changed. Even if I run the process pointing explicitly at the /bin/java in the Oxygen JRE folder, it still works fine, so it's not a problem with Oxygen's Java being different from my system default (which is OpenJDK-7, as it has been for a long time).

Posting this here because I'll probably encounter it again, and it was a bit thorny.

XP Update KB2686509 wouldn't install, no matter what I tried. Most of the online help suggested problems with a faultykeyboard.log file, which I didn't have. Finally, I ended up backing up, and then deleting, this entire reg key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts

Then I rebooted, and ran the hotfix from the downloadable-file version, and it worked.

I now have a jenkins job running (tenth iteration, after many attempts to figure out basic shell stuff in jenkins). Config here for the moment -- going into svn when ready:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<project>
  <actions/>
  <description>Runs a script which checks links on the Guidelines HTML output from TEIP5.</description>
  <keepDependencies>false</keepDependencies>
  <properties>
    <jenkins.advancedqueue.AdvancedQueueSorterJobProperty plugin="PrioritySorter@2.6">
      <useJobPriority>false</useJobPriority>
      <priority>-1</priority>
    </jenkins.advancedqueue.AdvancedQueueSorterJobProperty>
  </properties>
  <scm class="hudson.scm.NullSCM"/>
  <canRoam>true</canRoam>
  <disabled>false</disabled>
  <blockBuildWhenDownstreamBuilding>false</blockBuildWhenDownstreamBuilding>
  <blockBuildWhenUpstreamBuilding>false</blockBuildWhenUpstreamBuilding>
  <triggers/>
  <concurrentBuild>false</concurrentBuild>
  <builders>
    <hudson.tasks.Shell>
      <command>VERSIONFILE=$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/TEIP5/workspace/VERSION
VERSION=`cat ${VERSIONFILE}` 
TARGET=$JENKINS_HOME//jobs/TEIP5/lastSuccessful/archive/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html


echo "Running link checking for P5 version $VERSION."

if [[ $VERSION =~ [a-z]+$ ]]; then
	echo "Using configuration for pre-release version."
	linkchecker --config=$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/Guidelines-Link-Check/linkcheckerrcalphabeta $TARGET
	
else
	echo "Using configuration for release version."
	linkchecker --config=$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/Guidelines-Link-Check/linkcheckerrcrelease $TARGET
fi

echo "Transforming checker report..."
saxon -s:checkResults/linkchecker-out.xml -xsl:$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/Guidelines-Link-Check/linkchecker.xsl
echo "Done!"
exit</command>
    </hudson.tasks.Shell>
  </builders>
  <publishers>
    <hudson.plugins.logparser.LogParserPublisher plugin="log-parser@1.0.8">
      <unstableOnWarning>false</unstableOnWarning>
      <failBuildOnError>true</failBuildOnError>
      <parsingRulesPath>/var/lib/jenkins/hudson-log-parse-rules</parsingRulesPath>
    </hudson.plugins.logparser.LogParserPublisher>
  </publishers>
  <buildWrappers/>
</project>

We currently rely on the intermapper service to tell us when a site is down. This post will maintain a current list of the sites/ports we want on the intermapper list:

Site: Mariage
Apache URL (port 80): http://mariage.uvic.ca/index.html
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/mariage/site/index.html

Site: Myths
Apache URL (port 80): http://myths.uvic.ca/index.xql
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/myths/apps/mom/site/index.xql

Site: Vesalius
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/vesalius/index.xql

Site: Francotoile
Apache URL (port 80): http://francotoile.uvic.ca/index.xql
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/francotoile/index.xql

Site: Map of Early Modern London
Apache URL (port 80): http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/mapoflondon/index.html

Site: BC Genesis
Apache URL (port 80): http://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/index.htm
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/coldesp/site/index.htm

Site: VIHistory
Apache URL (port 80): http://vihistory.uvic.ca/index.php
Apache URL (port 80): http://vihistory.ca/index.php

Site: Scandinavian Canadian Studies Journal
Apache URL (port 80): http://scancan.net
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-stable.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/cocoon-legacy/scancan/index.htm

Site: Robert Graves Diary
Apache URL (port 80): http://graves.uvic.ca
Tomcat URL (port 8080): http://tomcat-stable.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/graves/site/index.xml

Site:
Apache URL (port 80):
Tomcat URL (port 8080):

Over the last couple of days I've been working on implementing and testing a link-checking job to run on the TEI Jenkins checking links in the Guidelines. the CLI tool linkchecker seems to be the best option, so I'm testing it and building a Makefile and some XSLT to fit it into our system. All details on the tests and what I've learned is in emails to various folks in Systems who are interested in a possible replacement for Xenu.

I've set up an iPXE boot system which allows me to boot in to several different environments over the network (using HTTP!).

The stock iPXE iso is ~1MB, and can be run without modification. E.g. download the image, put it on a thumb drive (as in, dd if=ipxe.iso of=/dev/sdX), boot it and use iPXE commands to connect to our apt server for further instructions. Specifically:
1) boot the machine
2) almost instantly, you'll see "Press Ctrl-B for the iPXE command line..." - do it and you'll be an iPXE command prompt.
3) enter the command 'dhcp' (without quotes) and wait until you get an 'ok' and get returned to the iPXE prompt
4) enter the command 'chain http://${server-path-to}/boot.ipxe' and you'll get a curses based boot menu.

From here, make your choice and begin. Current menu items are: install various Ubuntu LTS setups, Spinrite, and GParted. I'm working on adding a security distro (like BackBox or NST), but it isn't ready yet.

The iPXE scripts and menus all came from the iPXE site. It requires a bit of effort to familiarize yourself with the way things work, but isn't too difficult to get up and running quickly.

To commit to the Stylesheets git repo:

git commit -a (then provide message)
git push origin master

I took Greg's script for building eXist and messed around with it quite a bit so that it can now include the job scheduler, which I think I'm going to use for the new build of the Despatches.

Got impatient (as usual) so I sideloaded KitKat.
The tablet needs to have USB debugging turned on, and you need to have adb installed on the machine doing the sideloading (adb is in the Android SDK).
You'll also need an OTA image for the tablet. I got an official one from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Once you have the above sorted out, here's how to sideload Android:

1. Power off the tablet, and power back on by holding the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons while it boots.
2. The fastboot menu should appear and you should see “Start” in the top right. Press Volume Up till it changes to "Recovery". Press the Power button to select it.
   You will see an Android with a red exclamation point icon, press Volume Up and the Power button at the same time.
3. You will get a new menu and you can navigate to "apply update from adb".
4. Connect tablet to computer with your USB cable.
5. The tablet will display something like "Now send the package you want to apply to the device ..."
6. Run 'adb sideload $path-to-zip-file-containing android' from the computer.
7. Tablet will display percent progress, followed by descriptions of tasks it's running, like "Unpacking new recovery" and "Patching remaining system files"
8. The final line will say "Install from ADB complete."
9. Unplug USB cable and notice the menu at the top of the screen on the tablet says "reboot system now". Press the power button to select.
10. Tablet should reboot in to new Android.

GN has implemented a test VM running OwnCloud, and we tested sharing, user admin, and various other features using the Linux client. It seems to work very well, although integration with LDAP may be tricky.