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Cannot run ticgitweb on Ubuntu 10.10 #19

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alecthegeek opened this issue Apr 9, 2011 · 22 comments
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Cannot run ticgitweb on Ubuntu 10.10 #19

alecthegeek opened this issue Apr 9, 2011 · 22 comments
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@alecthegeek
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After installing ticgit-ng as per the readme and being able to run ti successfully I am unable to run the web interface:

$ ticgitweb
You need to install ticgit before we can proceed
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.2/bin/ticgitweb:27: uninitialized constant TicGit (NameError)
@jeffWelling
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Ah. This looks familiar.
I thought this had been patched already... At least, this specific problem.

I can't say for sure if ticgitweb would run or not because I don't use it myself, it's kind of a legacy app from previous maintainers, but ticgit itself hasn't been changed in a way that should effect ticgitweb so.. shrugs I can't say for sure.
I'll fix this, but before I sink into another bug I have to do some chores around the house, shouldn't take an hour.
I'll bring up that VM from the other issue and see if I can poke and prod ticgitweb until it works.
The documentation should also be mostly accurate, there was a maintainer working with me not to long ago (CodeGnome) who I believe had ticgitweb in a functioning state, and had updated the appropriate documentation accordingly.

I'll post back with the results of my poking and prodding :)

@jeffWelling
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I believe this should be fixed with TicGit-ng version 1.0.2.3, just pushed to rubygems, rubyforge, and Github now.
Try it out and let me know if it works for you?
After making this small change, I was able to run ticgitweb with one command.

@jeffWelling
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Oh no, perhaps I pushed too soon, trying it on my VM instead of my deving box, it seems to silently fail.
Does this happen for you as well?
It seems like it may be a ubuntu-specific issue, as this isn't appearing on my deving box which is Debian.

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It fails silently for me as well.

I also tried specifying a port of 2000 and it still failed.

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@jeffWelling
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Hmmm.
So, just for posterity I want to ask, how are you calling ticgitweb?
I ask because on my Ubuntu system I run into this bug
#16

And I'm wondering if you are also seeing that bug?

Because if you are that means you have to call it (both ti and ticgitweb) from a full path, such as
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ticgitweb
Which is silently failing. Now, here's the strange part, at least to me. That file, isn't actually ticgitweb, it's some file that rubygems places there which I assume (based on the premise that the 'ti' file in that directory is also not the real 'ti' file, yet the system works) it's loading the real file. Doing locate bin/ticgitweb results in

/home/jeff/ticgit/bin/ticgitweb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ticgitweb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.2/bin/ticgitweb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.3/bin/ticgitweb

So, if I call /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.3/bin/ticgitweb then it starts up without problems on 0.0.0.0:4567 .
Why it's failing when you call the first one though, I have no idea. I'm still investigating but my present unfamiliarity with sinatra and what is going on with that file have me thinking this could take a while to work out.

Checking my Debian vm, that strange file exists there as well, so I take it that this is a result of rubygems packaging as the file indicated.

So currently we know that this problem appears to be Ubuntu specific (and perhaps doesn't have anything to do with the mystery file), even though it does work if you call ticgitweb by its absolute path.

I'm going to have to sleep on it, and perhaps post to programmers.stackexchange.com to try to get help with this one. Will post back when I find out more. For the time being as a work-around you can add this alias to your ~/.bashrc file.
alias ticgitweb=/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.3/bin/ticgitweb
With that alias, calling ticgitweb results in a running server on my Ubuntu VM.
...reaches for a larger banging utensil

@alecthegeek
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It's not working that well for me

$ locate -br '^ticgitweb$'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ticgitweb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.2/bin/ticgitweb

$/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.2/bin/ticgitweb
You need to install ticgit before we can proceed

@jeffWelling
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Can you try installing / updating to version 1.0.2.3?
$ sudo gem update
I think.
And then for posterity
$ sudo updatedb
And then try the locate again. Mine showed version 1.0.2.2 and version 1.0.2.3 .

If that doesn't do it, we'll have to wait for someone to respond to the question on answers.launchpad.net . I'm still trying to figure out what to do about that "You need to install ticgit before we can proceed" message.

@alecthegeek
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Success:

  1. gem update did not work so I just did an install
  2. I added /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.3/bin to the PATH. I suspect this was significant

Now runs

w00t!

@alecthegeek
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For the benefit of posterity. As gem update does not work you can remove the previous version by running

sudo gem uninstall TicGit-ng -v 1.0.2.2

@jeffWelling
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Awesome!

Gem update didn't work? Hmm. That might be something to look into. Is
it just for Ticgit that it's not working or is it all gems (not my
problem)? Lol

Yeah the path thing seems to be the crux of this whole problem, but I
don't yet know why rubygems isn't adding that to the path when you
install it.
Still looking into it, but I'm glad you got it working :)

On 2011-04-10, at 6:14 PM, alecthegeek
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Success:

  1. gem update did not work so I just did an install
  2. I added /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/TicGit-ng-1.0.2.3/bin to the PATH. I suspect this was significant

Now runs

w00t!

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@alecthegeek
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Only the TicGit Gem did not upgrade. Sinatra upgraded fine....

@jeffWelling
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How did you originally install ticgit? Did you download and install
the gem from github or rubyforge?
Were there any error messages indicating what failed?

On 2011-04-10, at 6:59 PM, alecthegeek
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Only the TicGit Gem did not upgrade. Sinatra upgraded fine....

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On 11/04/11 09:11, jeffWelling wrote:

How did you originally install ticgit? Did you download and install
the gem from github or rubyforge?

I installed from the command line as per the README

sudo gem install ......

Also note that ticgit has not been installed from the Ubuntu repos

Were there any error messages indicating what failed?

AFAIK the only problem was installing sass gem, which needed the --pre flag

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@jeffWelling
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Oh sorry, I meant were there any error messages when you tried to update the TicGit-ng gem but it failed?

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No -- just said nothing to update

On 11/04/11 11:00, jeffWelling wrote:

Oh sorry, I meant were there any error messages when you tried to update the TicGit-ng gem but it failed?

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@jeffWelling
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Does this comment still stand then?
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Does the output still only list 1.0.2.2?

lol Lets make this easier, what's the output of ti --version? If it says 1.0.2.3 then I'm chasing my tail lol

@alecthegeek
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$ ti --version
1.0.2.3

@jeffWelling
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So it turns out the solution is to manually add the rubygems bin dir to your path. This will be noted in the documentation.

@alecthegeek
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See commit d674110

@jeffWelling
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The problem of not being able to simply call ticgitweb has been resolved completely for (crosses fingers) all platforms. There was a misconfiguration in sinatra that was preventing it from starting because it wasn't being called directly. Thanks to the friendly folks at the sinatra google group for pointing this out to me.

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*resolved completely in version 1.0.2.4 for all platforms

@alecthegeek
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Tested and working.

Gem also upgrades (but 1.0.2.3 is not removed)
And correctly issues an error message if not located in a git repo

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