OT: Backupedge 3 on RHEL 5 installation probs

[Shane Gray]

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> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:04:01AM +1000,
> Shane Gray blabbed on about:
> > Having problems installing BackupEdge v3 on RHEL v5.5 
> (x64).  Getting the
> > following error:
> >                                                                    
> > Installation Exited Status 127                                     
> > ERROR: Stage 2 Installation of BackupEDGE FAILED!                  
> > Please see the file /tmp/init.edge.err for a transcript            
> > of the errors.                                                     
> 
> And what does init.edge.err indicate?

After wading through the init.edge.err file again, found the issue was not
executing ldconfig.  Am remote to the server so was only su and sbin was not
in the path.  Sorted that out and installed OK!

> 
> > I am just wondering if anyone else has had any issues 
> installing BackupEdge
> > v3, or have installed successfully for that matter on RHEL v5?  Any
> > gotcha's?
> 
> I have two systems at clients with Edge on RHEL5.  One is 
> Edge 2.3, the
> other is Edge 3.0.  Both work.
> 
> One thing I remember we had to do was make sure hald was enabled--it
> doesn't like to work without hald and the associated subsystem.
> 
> Another I remember was that, if you purchased the Xen option on your
> license, when you installed, Xen is enabled by default in the 
> installer.
> Edge doesn't work with Xen.  If you don't want to reinstall, 
> simply disable
> all Xen-related services that may be running, install the PAE 
> kernel, then
> uninstall the Xen kernel.  Reboot after doing this, and you should be
> Xen-free.
> 
> Let me know if either of these fix your problem.

Xen is installed and running, but install worked (or seemed to?) OK as
above.  See how it goes.

Thanks for the ideas Mark.

Shane.