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Announcement: NAV 3.6.0b5 released
by Morten Brekkevold 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

The fifth beta test release of NAV 3.6 is now available for download at Launchpad, NAV 3.6.0b5: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.6/3.6.0b5 Beta testing is open to anyone, but please be aware, this code IS NOT production ready. If you wish to test the beta code, do so on a dedicated test system. Three of our own customers, in addition to our self, will be running "official" beta tests, so we have a good spread in the types of networks and devices we get to test the new code on. See the abovementioned URL for changelog and release notes. Be aware that this release CHANGES the database schema, so look for the 3.6.0b5.sql upgrade script. A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Install issues: Could not find the nav.startstop module
by Justin Callistini 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Greetings! I am on my third attempt of installing NAV 3.5.6 on a Ubuntu 10.04 server 64bit machine and have followed the Debian cookbook each time, but to no avail. Everything seems to install just fine, but when I attempt to start NAV it gives this fatal error: testuser@metanav-test:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nav start Starting Network Administration Visualized: Fatal error: Could not find the nav.startstop module. Is your PYTHONPATH environment correctly set up? testuser@metanav-test:~$ Upon install, the PYTHONPATH environment variable isn’t initialized, but I have tried manually adding a python directory but still no good. Other paths that I have used are: $PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nav/ $PYTHONPATH:/usr/share/python-support/nav/nav/s Any ideas what the issue could be with starting NAV? Here is my environmental variable list: testuser@metanav-test:~$ printenv TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=10.30.38.220 1760 22 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 USER=testuser LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:hl=44;37:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01 :cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:e x=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31 :*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*. tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;3 1:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif= 01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*. xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01 ;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.o gm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35 :*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=0 1;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.axv =01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:* .mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00; 36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36: MAIL=/var/mail/testuser PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games PWD=/home/testuser LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/testuser PYTHONPATH=/usr/bin/python/ LOGNAME=testuser SSH_CONNECTION=10.30.38.220 1760 10.50.21.5 22 LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s _=/usr/bin/printenv testuser@metanav-test:~$ Regards, Justin Callistini IT AIS Workstudy George Fox University

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Strange Python Errors after Upgrade to latest Beta
by Rudolph Bott 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi List, I upgraded my 3.5.4 installation of NAV to the latest Beta (3.6.0b4) and ran into the error posted below. I configured NAV from scratch, updated the Database with the pgsql scripts and everything seems to be fine: I can login using a LDAP backend, see the welcome page and user information etc - but as soon as I click on 'Toolbox' I receive an error message. It thought it might be related to the 'ForgetSQL thing' but according to this list, ForgetSQL is not a requirement any more (starting with 3.6) - or am I wrong on this one? My system is Ubuntu 9.04, running with Python 2.5.4 and 2.6.2 installed. ForgetSQL is 0.5.1. == snip == MOD_PYTHON ERROR ProcessId: 22003 Interpreter: '<hostname>' ServerName: '<hostname>' DocumentRoot: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot' URI: '/toolbox/' Location: None Directory: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/toolbox/' Filename: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/toolbox/' PathInfo: '' Phase: 'PythonHandler' Handler: 'toolbox' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1229, in _process_target result = _execute_target(config, req, object, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1128, in _execute_target result = object(arg) File "/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/toolbox/toolbox.py", line 39, in handler page.tools = toolbox.filterToolList(toolbox.getToolList(), req.session['user']) File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/web/toolbox.py", line 71, in filterToolList if nav.auth.hasPrivilege(user, 'web_access', tool.uri): File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/auth.py", line 58, in hasPrivilege raise "user parameter is of invalid type %s" % type(user) TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str MODULE CACHE DETAILS Accessed: Wed Jul 21 14:12:30 2010 Generation: 1 _mp_34a3546f4bff52bdef2b9323a235d99b { FileName: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/toolbox/toolbox.py' Instance: 1 [IMPORT] Generation: 2 Modified: Mon Nov 16 11:51:45 2009 Imported: Wed Jul 21 14:12:30 2010 } == snip == Any help would be appreciated! Regards, Rudolph Bott

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