Comments on: Acts As Ferret DrbServer Win32 Service http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/ Web Development and Design, and Anything That Matters Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:32:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: “Acts As Ferret DrbServer Win32 Service” « “golb ecruos nepo”.reverse http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-84130 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:03:31 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-84130 [...] June 30, 2008 at 12:19 pm · Filed under acts as ferret, acts_as_ferret for windows, ferret server on windows, rails, ror, ruby on rails ·Tagged acts as ferret, acts_as_ferret for windows, ferret server on windows, rails, ror, ruby on rails How to setup acts_as_ferret on windows was what I was wondering when I came accross this link. [...] […] June 30, 2008 at 12:19 pm · Filed under acts as ferret, acts_as_ferret for windows, ferret server on windows, rails, ror, ruby on rails ·Tagged acts as ferret, acts_as_ferret for windows, ferret server on windows, rails, ror, ruby on rails How to setup acts_as_ferret on windows was what I was wondering when I came accross this link. […]

]]> by: Herryanto Siatono http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-81778 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:24:34 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-81778 That's really strange can you try to run on rails console, if you can load ferret server class, cross check in acs_as_ferret plugin files, for Server class, etc... >> ActsAsFerret::Remote::Server That’s really strange can you try to run on rails console, if you can load ferret server class, cross check in acs_as_ferret plugin files, for Server class, etc…

>> ActsAsFerret::Remote::Server

]]> by: Karthik http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-80742 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:32:11 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-80742 Guys, I have been at this for 3 days now with no luck getting a DRb server going. I have a production site on a Windows box with Apache, 5 mongrels and using aaf rev. 257 (as suggested here) and ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32). I cannot even get ferret_daemon going on the console. ruby script/ferret_daemon -c -e production gives me Initializing FerretDaemon... Starting Ferret DRb server... script/ferret_daemon:69:in `service_init': undefined method `start' for ActsAsFe rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError) from script/ferret_daemon:51:in `initialize' from script/ferret_daemon:87:in `new' from script/ferret_daemon:87 I have tried everything ... or so it seems. Various versions of ferret and aaf have been installed, uninstalled, patched and burnt... no luck. Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you, Karthik Guys,

I have been at this for 3 days now with no luck getting a DRb server
going. I have a production site on a Windows box with Apache, 5 mongrels
and using aaf rev. 257 (as suggested here) and ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32).

I cannot even get ferret_daemon going on the console.

ruby script/ferret_daemon -c -e production

gives me

Initializing FerretDaemon…
Starting Ferret DRb server…
script/ferret_daemon:69:in `service_init’: undefined method `start’ for
ActsAsFe
rret::Remote::Server:Class (NoMethodError)
from script/ferret_daemon:51:in `initialize’
from script/ferret_daemon:87:in `new’
from script/ferret_daemon:87

I have tried everything … or so it seems. Various versions of ferret
and aaf have been installed, uninstalled, patched and burnt… no luck.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Karthik

]]> by: Herryanto Siatono http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69143 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:09:09 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69143 Thanks Neon, I wish I could help, I think that's a nice workaround too, so long that your service can be successfully started up after a reboot. Thanks Neon, I wish I could help, I think that’s a nice workaround too, so long that your service can be successfully started up after a reboot.

]]> by: neongrau http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69132 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:02:12 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69132 since i badly needed a solution i've now found this workaround to get it to work: create a dependency to a default service that already starts late like messenger (or spooler) make sure that service is set to auto start (i was used to disable it right away)... sc config messenger start= auto sc config *aaf_drb_service_name* start= auto depend= messenger since i badly needed a solution i’ve now found this workaround to get it to work:

create a dependency to a default service that already starts late like messenger (or spooler)

make sure that service is set to auto start (i was used to disable it right away)…

sc config messenger start= auto
sc config *aaf_drb_service_name* start= auto depend= messenger

]]> by: neongrau http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69128 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:55:26 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-69128 @Herryanto, just saw your tip today. while this seems to work on my dev machine running XP on my test server (2003 server) it's still not working. somehow weird, i tested with 2 and 3 minutes 120000 and 360000ms as a value for ServicesPipeTimeout without luck. so i tested one last time with a value of 3.600.000 ms (1 hour). but i get exactly the same error instantly when booting up. i would've expected it to just take ages to start. but it failed right away, even in eventlog i see the fail message just 90 seconds after the first entry from that boot. the german error message: Zeitüberschreitung (3600000 ms) beim Verbindungsversuch mit Dienst InformerSearch_latest. Weitere Informationen über die Hilfe- und Supportdienste erhalten Sie unter http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. @Herryanto, just saw your tip today.

while this seems to work on my dev machine running XP on my test server (2003 server) it’s still not working. somehow weird, i tested with 2 and 3 minutes 120000 and 360000ms as a value for ServicesPipeTimeout without luck.

so i tested one last time with a value of 3.600.000 ms (1 hour). but i get exactly the same error instantly when booting up. i would’ve expected it to just take ages to start. but it failed right away, even in eventlog i see the fail message just 90 seconds after the first entry from that boot.

the german error message:
Zeitüberschreitung (3600000 ms) beim Verbindungsversuch mit Dienst InformerSearch_latest.

Weitere Informationen über die Hilfe- und Supportdienste erhalten Sie unter http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

]]> by: Herryanto Siatono http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-55856 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:57:39 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-55856 @neongrau, I'm not sure what went wrong with script found in ferret, haven't got the time to try it out. As regarding the service startup problem, please refer to my last updated note above. Hope it helps. @neongrau, I’m not sure what went wrong with script found in ferret, haven’t got the time to try it out.

As regarding the service startup problem, please refer to my last updated note above. Hope it helps.

]]> by: neongrau http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-55713 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:51:09 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-55713 there was some change in the start/stop scripts "unified drb server" that broke s.th. on windows. i had that problem a while ago and went back to aaf svn rev. 257. haven't yet checked if it's fixed. but i have a problem with the service i really need to fix. the problem is that the service won't start automatically on system boot. it always fails with the classic "..did not repsond in a timely fashion..." in eventlog. starting it manually generally works (well most of the time, sometimes i need a second try to start it). anyone any idea what the problem could be? perhaps something in PATH thats not available at that time? there was some change in the start/stop scripts
“unified drb server” that broke s.th. on windows. i had that problem a while ago and went back to aaf svn rev. 257.
haven’t yet checked if it’s fixed.

but i have a problem with the service i really need to fix. the problem is that the service won’t start automatically on system boot. it always fails with the classic “..did not repsond in a timely fashion…” in eventlog. starting it manually generally works (well most of the time, sometimes i need a second try to start it).

anyone any idea what the problem could be? perhaps something in PATH thats not available at that time?

]]> by: Roger Pack http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-51559 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:08:52 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-51559 Appears aaf 0.4.3 doesn't really work with win32 yet, as it uses fork. You can go into it and take out the fork call and make some other modifications (among which are requiring 'rubygems' at the top fo these files, taking off set_ssid, etc., etc., within aaf. and then you have a fake guy that does it. That with downloading backgroundrb that is old enough to work with windows. I have a blog entry about it at http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=120 but it's still iffy. Appears aaf 0.4.3 doesn’t really work with win32 yet, as it uses fork. You can go into it and take out the fork call and make some other modifications (among which are requiring ‘rubygems’ at the top fo these files, taking off set_ssid, etc., etc., within aaf. and then you have a fake guy that does it. That with downloading backgroundrb that is old enough to work with windows. I have a blog entry about it at http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=120 but it’s still iffy.

]]> by: Luke Pearce http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-45133 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:39:45 +0000 http://www.pluitsolutions.com/2007/07/30/acts-as-ferret-drbserver-win32-service/#comment-45133 Just a quick note on this; I had a similar error message when trying to start from the services app. However when you run from the command line you can get extended error messages. In my case I had moved some files and had a required file dependancy. Cheers Luke Just a quick note on this; I had a similar error message when trying to start from the services app. However when you run from the command line you can get extended error messages.

In my case I had moved some files and had a required file dependancy.

Cheers
Luke

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