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When you update your ubuntu to 10.04, the upgrade process forgets to update the bacula database which ends with this in bacula logs : 02-May 17:39 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database "bacula". Wanted 12, got 10 02-May 17:39 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula". 02-May 17:39 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for database "bacula". Wanted 12, got 10 02-May 17:39 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to correct this you need to run manuall two SQL scripts to upgrade the database (extracted from sources of bacula). First you need to edit ~/.my.cnf so that 'mysql' command use this file to connect to the database : [client] user=root password=YOU_MYSQL_ROOT_PWD_HERE protocol=tcp or change the scripts so that this line : if $bindir/mysql $* -f <<END-OF-DATA is changed to this line : if...

  Since ubuntu 10.04, Sun JDK has been dropped and replaced by openjdk . Literally replaced, ie : Sun JDK remove, openjdk installed. This is performed during the upgrade without explicitly asking you for your consent... which is quite ugly... After the upgrade, my tomcat was not working anymore... Anyway, in order to install Sun JDK back you just have to : vi /etc/apt/sources.list and check if the following line is present : deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner if not, add it at the end of the file. then run sudo aptitude update to get the package list from the new repo. and then run : sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk but after that, if you run java -version, it's still the openjdk version. thomas@daisybox:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun$ java -version java version "1.6.0_18" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode) thomas@daisybox:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun$ which java /usr/...

Today I was by a client to proceed on a delicate TIBCO iProcess upgrade, and I encounter a strange issue : Oracle Universal Installer (9.2.0.1 or 10.2.0.1) won't launch. If you watch in process explorer , you can see a java process (javaw.exe) launch and die. I found out that it was the default 'temp' (or tmp) directory that was preventing Oracle Universal Installer to launch. On this particular machine, the default setting is : %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp which is expanded to (+ oracle path) : C:\Documents and Settings\matr1x!\Local Settings\Temp\OraInstall2010-05-11_10-08-17AM\jre\bin I've replaced TEMP and TMP environment variable value by 'c:\temp' and I was able to launch the Oracle Installer and perform the installation. (using C:\Install\Oracle\client 9i\92010NT_Disk1\install\win32\setup.exe, C:\Install\Oracle\client 9i\92010NT_Disk1\setup.exe still wasn't working)