[cobalt-users] Apache will not start LCD Displays: [none] + IP

["Glenn Parsons" <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is anyone listening? This problem could happen to you. IT could happen to me
again! I would like to grasp some understanding as to why this happened!

Below is my previously IGNORED post.

Hello All,
Here's what happened and what I can see. I have this machine preserved to
work on when I return from vacation on Thursday. I am rebuilding it and will
have it rebuilt today before I leave.
After completing a project for a client on a RaQ3 with one domain only, a
project manager was making some database changes through a Java Servlet
enabled admin interface to the site. The update froze on him, so we killed
his IE browser and restarted it (Mac OS9.1 kills most ugly applications
nicely and restarts them). He was able to get the admin interface back up
and attempted to update again. It froze on him again. I told him to reboot
the machine. I tried the same operations off a Windoze machine. The admin
page never came up and timed-out. I rebooted the RaQ from the Windoze
machine through the GUI interface. When the RaQ came up, the LCD read:

[none]
10.0.2.10

The IP was correct, but it had lost it's hostname. I went through the LCD
interface and found that it had also lost its gateway setting as well. I
scoured through the /etc directory and found all these configs still
intact.
I attempted to access the GUI. No go. I looked at "top" and "ps -aux." No
httpd process. Mysql was running. Everything else seemed peachy. I attempted
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start. No go. I got errors, some of which I still get
when trying to restart. I also noticed Java errors from JServ and then
throwing exceptions, so I commented out the call to mod_JServ in httpd.conf
and also the JSSI reference there. The Java problems disappeared when
restarting httpd, but still has errors and this is what they are:

[root@(none) admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd: [: =: unary operator expected
Setting up Web Service: Site home has invalid certificate: 4999 Certificate
files do not exist.
/usr/sbin/httpd


Now, I referred to
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-July/015949.html which
described  part of my problem, except the solution posted involved
generating an SSL cert from the GUI. No httpd; NO GUI!
I looked into generating an SSL cert from the command line, but that's all
too confusing. I was also advised that the SSL cert probably would not keep
Apache from restarting. So! It looks like it boils down to that unary
operator expected??? I don't know what that complaint is.
I can assure you that I am the only one here to perform any admin on these
machines and was not goofing around or modifying anything when all this
occurred. I was, however attempting to access the machine through a browser
using a URL that we have registered an A-record for that machine even though
the host is not defined on the RaQ (ie: I was trying to access www.xyz.com
knowing fully that nslookup www.xyz.com pointed to the IP on that machine
even though www.abc.com is the only domain setup there).

I hope to recover this machine; not because I will lose any data, but
because I am likely to see this problem again because no one was doing
anything reckless on it!

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks,
Glenn
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Glenn Parsons
System Administrator, Software Development
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Personal Email:
mailto:glennp@xxxxxxxx
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BGR Enterprises LLC business email:
mailto:gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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