[ome-devel] Questions on OMERO.server (BETA) 4.0 RC1

[Mario Valle]

Ciao Josh!
The beta4-rc1 build went on without a single problem! Well, I cannot access webadmin, but 
read on.
I have only a suggestion and a few questions.
I suggest to put in the instructions that the environment variable 
PYTHONPATH=/Users/mvalle/Ice-3.3.0/py/python:/omero-4.0-rc1/dist/lib/python
should be set before running bin/omero config

Questions:
1) Should the bin/omero admin start command be run under sudo? Seems do not make any 
difference
2) Which are the db.user and db.name that you set to me/mydb? Should they be omero/omero?
3) Should the data.dir an empty directory and not the old Beta3.2 /OMERO directory?
4) The new db is omero and no more omero3, correct?
5) I have opened the ports 1098, 4063, 4444, 3873, 8000. Is this correct?
6) How can I build the standard clients?

And now the scoop:
Seems the server doesn't start because I run on Mac PPC with OSX 10.4 . Instead the 
master.err (attached) show that 10.5 is required.

I hope this is only an oversight and not a hard prerequisite. Otherwise I'm cut out again 
from the OME world...

Let me know.
Ciao!
	mario




josh.moore at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> as promised, an update on the upcoming release. We've just tagged
> release candidate 1 for internal testing (url below). You are welcome
> to start examining the tag or downloading from Hudson, but obviously
> there is still work to do and changes to be made.
> 
> In order to use this pre-docs version, some explanation is necessary:
> 
>  * First, the database has "evolved" as opposed to clearly being
>    versioned during our development, so anyone who has tested the
>    waters will need to re-create their database.
> 
>  * Another important change is how the database gets created. To
>    simplify the distribution, ant has been removed, which means the
>    "ant setup-db" target is gone. For the moment, we are delegating
>    database creation to your tool of choice (probably psql). See below
>    on how to do this.
> 
>  * The logging location has changed. Deployment starts up at least two
>    server instances, one with a lower memory requirement, solely for
>    indexing your database. To prevent confusion from duplications,
>    there are now two files. See var/log/Blitz-0.log and
>    var/log/Indexer-0.log after starting your instance.
> 
>  * Finally, server configuration has changed. Rather than editing
>    local.properties and executing "ant update", Java's Preferences API
>    (e.g. ~/.java/userPrefs on Linux) is being used (see below). This
>    keeps the distribution directory (other than the logs) read-only so
>    it can be installed globally.
> 
> 
> The final workflow, which we will be writing up online for release,
> can be summarized like this: (note this assumes that Ice, Java,
> Python, and Postgres are already installed)
> 
> 
>     svn co \
>       http://svn.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/tags/omero-4.0-rc1 \
>       omero-4.0-rc1
> 
>     cd omero-4.0-rc1
>      # Calls "java omero" to prevent memory issues on 64bit
>     ./build.py
>     cd dist
> 
>     #
>     # All default properties are shown in etc/omero.properties
>     # If you would like to change any property, use the
>     # "bin/omero config" command.
>     #
>     bin/omero config set omero.data.dir /opt/OMERO
>     bin/omero config set omero.db.user me
>     bin/omero config set omero.db.name mydb
> 
> 
>     #
>     # To create a password script which also contains your
>     # (OMERO) root user's password, use the "bin/omero db" command
>     #
>     bin/omero db script    # Asks for root pass and creates OMERO__4.sql
> 
> 
>     #
>     # Postgresql commands:
>     # ==========================
>     # These commands assume the default values as in etc/omero.properties
>     #
>     sudo -u postgres createdb -O omero omero
>     sudo -u postgres createlang plpgsql omero
>     psql -U omero omero < OMERO4__0.sql
> 
> 
>     # Starting your server
>     bin/omero admin start
>     # No deploy needed.
> 
> 
> Once "OMERO.blitz now accepting connections." appears in your
> var/log/Blitz-0.log, you can browse to:
> 
>   http://localhost:8000/webadmin
> 
> and begin adding new users.
> 
> 
> Known issues:
> =============
> 
>  * Server builds on Windows but will not deploy properly.
> 
>  * To get the Eclipse projects to compile, it is necessary to run
>    "ant test-compile".
> 
> 
> Thanks ever so much for your patience and and the upcoming
> feedback. And, as always, we'll keep you posted on the further release
> schedule.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Josh
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Ing. Mario Valle
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