save world hanging

[kubatyszko]

Hi, with the ubuntu version you used, save world will hang (due to some Xorg oddities).
I managed to install it all by hand on a Ubuntu 7.10 - this seems to be the most recent Ubuntu which still has that Xorg feature genera needs.
I was able to define site, save world and start the machine again using that world.

[ynniv]

That's good news! For posterity's sake, how did you conclude that the crash was a deprecated Xorg feature?

[kubatyszko]

Afair I saw that information in one of the files in notes/
I tried your script and vagrant crashed sometime after installation, I think it was after ruby got installed,
So I just went and did it all by hand.
Then I got genera to run, but during save world it crashed, after I found that you actually wrote that save world is not working, I decided to try and install on an older Ubuntu version.
7.10 (my first choice) went just fine (manually of course).
I did spend a little time and added definition for vagrant box (7.10 is not available normally).
It installs just fine but requires manual intervention twice:

1. complains about security packages not available (might be possible to tweak the auto install definitions somehow)
2. after reboot when it installs dpkg it asks for cd-rom you need to 'insert' the iso into the machine (I guess that might be easy to solve).
   It also complained about some packages durin lg upgrade so I removed those definitions - having it only install OpenSSH (rest can be installed during post install stage).

Then it crashed after ruby installation step and I didn't have time to investigate.

Ont thing to remember - 7.10 is so old you need to change repository server to old-releases.ubuntu.com in apt.
Also I saw some notes that people had issues with nfs-kernel-server - works for me just fine.

Cheers

[ynniv]

I've checked in a half baked Ubuntu 7.10 configuration. The "security" host and package mirror have been set to old-releases.ubuntu.com, which avoids both the security prompt and the "insert cdrom" prompt. Unfortunately there is still instability, which I suspect is due to virtual machine settings. It would be helpful if you would pull master and compare your hand build VM to that produced by:

vagrant basebox build  -f ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64;

[kubatyszko]

Not bad, the box did build:

[ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64] The box ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64 was built succesfully!
[ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64] You can now login to the box with:
[ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64] ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 7222 -l vagrant 127.0.0.1

[ynniv]

That's kind of surprising... I later found that there were some serious problems with that definition. I have updated it along with some other changes, but while "save world" finishes, genera crashes on the next run. Could you update to the latest, make clean, destroy your vm, make, and try to save world?

[opendragon]

Any news on this? I read somewhere - but I can't find where - that Save World will work, as long as a different file name is selected, so that it doesn't do an overwrite.
If this is true, I'm guessing that you should be able to select a different world to load at start time.

[devn]

@opendragon did you ever test out this theory?

[jibanes]

hmmm, having the same problem, save world hangs while trying to write to a non previously existing file.