Maintenance

New monitors came, set up new standing desk, after switching my desk with one from the other room which is more suitable for it. Time to completion about two hours. Reminder to self: I need to find and bring a 14mm hex wrench to adjust the counterweight so that it stays in position more firmly.

Overnight I updated teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca from 14.04 to 14.04.01. When it came back up, after re-enabling commented-out third-party repositories in /etc/sources.list.d (tei and jenkins), I discovered that the proxying of Jenkins on port 80 was no longer working. After some investigation, I discovered that the original sites-available/jenkins configuration file was not being recognized by apache -- running sudo a2ensite jenkins resulted in "jenkins site does not exist" -- because now it needs to be called jenkins.conf. Once I'd renamed it I was able to enable it, but it took a reboot to make it work; just restarting apache wasn't enough.

This is a reminder to myself because I've been caught by this twice:

Old versions of rsync would work fine over ssh with a target path like this:

mholmes@server.thing.ca:home/mholmes/folder/

But a particular upgrade means that you now get this error:

ERROR: module is read only
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1034) [Receiver=3.0.9]
rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at io.c(837) [sender=3.1.0]

You have to add the slash after the colon.

Figured this out after seeing a sample XEP config for Oxygen on the Oxygen forum (thanks Adrian).

In the process of updating Ubuntu, a bunch of apps got removed because of repo problems. I reinstalled all the ones I noticed, but it looks like the "xep" script file that runs the app was deleted. That would have presented Oxygen with a problem, presumably, and it seems to have responded by setting the XEP config to this:

/media/Data/mholmes/apps/RenderX/XEP/lib/xep.jar -fo ${fo} -${method} ${out}

In other words, it was pointing directly at the jar file, not at the now-missing script. I've restored the xep startup file from a backup, and pointed Oxygen at it, and now everything works.

The XEP error message didn't help figure this out.

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.