If you are running an Ubuntu Server and would like to upgrade to the Ubuntu 14.04 from the command line here are the commands all changed together for easy cut and paste.
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core && sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Month: April 2014
Media Wiki /var/www/includes/db/Database.php: DatabaseBase::factory no viable database extension found for type ‘mysql’
I just upgraded Ubuntu and unfortunately the MediaWiki installation broke. There was no debugging output on the screen (for obvious security reasons). So, I just had a blank page on the screen.
The first thing that I did was show the debugging output but editing the LocalSetting.php to enabling
$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;
After refreshing the page, the error appeared as
/var/www/includes/db/Database.php: DatabaseBase::factory no viable database extension found for type 'mysql'
It turns out the problem was php not connecting to MySQL properly.
sudo php5enmod mysql sudo service apache2 restart
How to remove Ubuntu Landscape Client *
I have started to remove the Ubuntu / Cannonical Landscape Client from all my Ubuntu servers because otherwise it is just another service:
- Running in the background using power
- Potiential security hole with root permission
- I don’t actually use it
It is quite simple:
sudo apt-get remove landscape-client landscape-client-ui landscape-client-ui-install landscape-common
If Cannonical open sourced the service for Landscape then I would actually start using it but in the meantime…
Strange Conveyor User Ubuntu
I have just been looking at the processes on my laptop and noticed a python process running as a user called ‘conveyor’. I can’t remember adding a user or installing a program called conveyer. It turns out that it was a Makerbot process. So, a quick…
apt-get remove makerbot*
…helped sort that out. Why Makerbot doesn’t make a user called Makerbot, I have no idea.