Installing open-edx on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit server

[shubhdev]

Hi, is there any verified method for installing open edx on a Ubuntu 14.04 server. Why do the official docs contain installation guide for 12.04 only?

[e0d]

We don't currently support 14.04, though we plan to and I dont think it would be a big effort. If you would like to help realize 14.04 support you can use the same install script and report any bugs you find. Big extra credit for also fixing them. If you are interested I can help you get started. On Jun 2, 2015 1:55 AM, "Shubham Rawat" [email protected] wrote:

Hi, is there any verified method for installing open edx on a Ubuntu 14.04 server. Why do the official docs contain installation guide for 12.04 only?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/edx/configuration/issues/2073.

[shubhdev]

I would love to, but i am running short on a deadline.I would love to do it as soon as i am free.

[clarkyu]

when try "sudo ansible-playbook -c local ./edx_sandbox.yml -i "localhost,", shows "ERROR: debug is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler".

[e0d]

This is most likely related to ansible not having been updated. Make sure you have activated the virtual environment and that you are running ansible version ansible 1.9.1-edx.2.

Best,

Ed.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:13 AM, clarkyu [email protected] wrote:

when try "sudo ansible-playbook -c local ./edx_sandbox.yml -i "localhost,", shows "ERROR: debug is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler".

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/edx/configuration/issues/2073#issuecomment-121218020.

[clarkyu]

Task Failed: TASK: [common | update the ssh motd on Ubuntu]

[clarkyu]

thank you very much.

[e0d]

Where are you installing, this issue is usually related to non-aws install. It's something I have a fix for, but want to know your environment.

[clarkyu]

actually, I'm installing it onto aliyun in Hong Kong, which is powered by Alibaba.

[clarkyu]

a alibaba cloud service, similar to AWS.

[e0d]

https://github.com/edx/configuration/compare/e0d/docker-latest?expand=1

That is a big, incomplete PR, but look at the changes to playbooks/roles/common/tasks/main.yml.

The idea is to pull this out of common as it's AWS specific in order to support more platforms more easily. For now, you would need to remove this lines from your local version.

[clarkyu]

I removed all SSH lines from main.yml. For now, it works well. You're really appreciated!

[clarkyu]

Task Failed: TASK: [edxapp | code sandbox | use libblas for 3gf]

[jyotichauhan]

Find the file:

  /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/python_sandbox_env.yml

Change this:

command: update-alternatives –set libblas.so.3gf /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3gf

to:

command: update-alternatives –set libblas.so.3 /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3

and this:

command: update-alternatives –set liblapack.so.3gf /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3gf

to:

command: update-alternatives –set liblapack.so.3 /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3

[sbalde]

Hello Guy,

I'm trying to install open-edx on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. Unfortunately, once the install reach the [edxapp | restart edxapp_workers] TASK, it doesn't go further.

TASK: [edxapp | import courses including static data] ************************* skipping: [localhost] => (item=EDXAPP_XML_COURSES)

TASK: [edxapp | delete courses that were fully imported] ********************** skipping: [localhost] => (item=EDXAPP_XML_COURSES)

TASK: [edxapp | create an archive of course data and course static dirs] ****** skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | upload archive to s3] ***************************************** skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | remove archive from disk] ************************************* skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | update supervisor configuration] ****************************** changed: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | ensure edxapp has started] ************************************ skipping: [localhost] => (item=lms) skipping: [localhost] => (item=cms)

TASK: [edxapp | ensure edxapp_workers has started] **************************** ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'low', 'service_variant': 'cms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 3}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'default', 'service_variant': 'cms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 4}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'high', 'service_variant': 'cms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 1}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'low', 'service_variant': 'lms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 1}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'default', 'service_variant': 'lms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 3}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'high', 'service_variant': 'lms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 4}) ok: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'high_mem', 'service_variant': 'lms', 'monitor': False, 'concurrency': 2, 'max_tasks_per_child': 1})

TASK: [edxapp | create symlinks from the venv bin dir] ************************ changed: [localhost] => (item=python) changed: [localhost] => (item=pip) changed: [localhost] => (item=django-admin.py)

TASK: [edxapp | create symlinks from the repo dir] **************************** changed: [localhost] => (item=manage.py)

TASK: [edxapp | remove read-only ssh key] ************************************* skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | get instance information] ************************************* skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | tag instance with edx_platform version] *********************** skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | tag instance with edxapp theme version] ********************** skipping: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | set_fact edxapp_installed=true] ******************************* ok: [localhost]

TASK: [edxapp | restart edxapp] *********************************************** skipping: [localhost] => (item=lms) skipping: [localhost] => (item=cms)

TASK: [edxapp | restart edxapp_workers] *************************************** changed: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'low', 'service_variant': 'cms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 3}) changed: [localhost] => (item={'queue': 'default', 'service_variant': 'cms', 'monitor': True, 'concurrency': 4})

It seems to be hung at this point.

Does anyone ever had such issue?

Thanks in advance for your help

[potato70]

@e0d i am installing edx on ubuntu 14.04 and i would really appreciate your help, when i try installing edx cypress edition by

export OPENEDX_RELEASE=named-release/cypress wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/configuration/$OPENEDX_RELEASE/util/install/sandbox.sh -O - | bash

i get the following error :

TASK: [edx_ansible | git checkout edx_ansible repo into edx_ansible_code_dir] *** failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true} msg: Failed to checkout release

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Please advise me what to do?!

much appreciated.

[e0d]

Hmm, we don't fully support 14.04, but there are some related PRs and the changes are not too invasive.

Are you altering the script locally? Because if you look at:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/configuration/named-release/cypress/util/install/sandbox.sh

You will notice that the script should exit if you are not on 12.04.

Either way, the issue seems to be that the OPENEDX_RELEASE variable isn't available in the script and you are falling through to using the release branch. You need to figure out why that's happening.

I've just downloaded the script to a 14.04 docker container, removed the check, exported OPENEDX_RELEASE and things are working as expected.

[fhiggins]

@e0d

I'm trying to set up edX on an Ubuntu 14.04 system inside my LAN to learn it before trying anything on AWS. I followed the recommended modifications on this page and it took me pretty far, but not all the way. I would be happy to forward a log file, if it helps your testing for 14.04 - if there exists a log file.

• Created an edX directory off of my home path.
• Executed a bash shell as superuser from my home path/edX. sudo bash
• Grabbed the cypress release to get the sandbox.sh to my home path/edX.

export OPENEDX_RELEASE=named-release/cypress
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/configuration/$OPENEDX_RELEASE/util/install/sandbox.sh

• Edited sandbox.sh to change 12.04 to 14.04 (as above).
• Ran sandbox.sh script. Failure with "3gf" files as above - made corrections as above.
• Cut the two commands below out of sandbox.sh to run by hand.

export   EXTRA_VARS="-e edx_platform_version=$OPENEDX_RELEASE \
    -e certs_version=$OPENEDX_RELEASE \
    -e forum_version=$OPENEDX_RELEASE \
    -e xqueue_version=$OPENEDX_RELEASE \
  "
cd /var/tmp/configuration/playbooks && sudo ansible-playbook -c local ./edx_sandbox.yml -i "localhost," $EXTRA_VARS

• Ran for quite some time (over 2 hours), finally:

TASK: [aws | update the ssh motd on Ubuntu] *********************************** 
changed: [localhost] => (item=/etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text)
failed: [localhost] => (item=/usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper) => {"failed": true, "item": "/usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper", "path": "/usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper", "state": "absent"}
msg: file (/usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper) is absent, cannot continue
...
changed: [localhost] => (item=/etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade)

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 
           to retry, use: --limit @<my home path>/edx_sandbox.retry

localhost                  : ok=533  changed=278  unreachable=0    failed=1   

By the way, what does the following line mean: to retry, use: --limit @<my home path>/edx_sandbox.retry

Finally, are there any instructions for un-installing when I want to move to another machine. I'm new with using VM's so any useful links are appreciated. Thanks.

[delamux]

Hello, I have a VPS in strato, is not possible installa ubuntu 12.04 I have 14.04 and I have this error:

[edxapp | code sandbox | (bootstrap) load code sandbox profile] ********* failed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["apparmor_parser", "-r", "/etc/apparmor.d/code.sandbox"], "delta": "0:00:00.001981", "end": "2016-09-01 14:45:06.547516", "rc": 1, "start": "2016-09-01 14:45:06.545535", "warnings": []} stderr: Warning: unable to find a suitable fs in /proc/mounts, is it mounted? Use --subdomainfs to override.TASK:

[deepak-vyas]

hi, Ihave an error, please help me out root@jumpbox2:/# ansible-playbook -c local ./edx/app/edx_ansible/edx_ansible/playbooks/edx_sandbox.yml -i "jumpbox" ERROR: Unable to find an inventory file, specify one with -i ?

[arbabnazar]

@deepak-vyas can you try that:

root@jumpbox2:/# ansible-playbook -c local ./edx/app/edx_ansible/edx_ansible/playbooks/edx_sandbox.yml -i "127.0.0.1,"