upgrading freebsd 9 to 10 notes

After upgrading freebsd 9 to 10 using freebsd's own install guide on wiki, I found that my pkg info returned no packages back to me. Kind of frustrating that their install guide does not explain the user land upgrade process. Anyway, this is what I had to do to fix that:


migrate to pkg2ng
# pkg2ng

tell your ports of the change
# cat /etc/make.conf
WITH_PKGNG=yes

update packages before proceeding to install
# pkg update


if you get an error: “PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository configuration file”

cp /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

*I really should be using tags or something for this post.

openldap: bdb_equality_candidates: (uidNumber) not indexed

This article was a big help

Tested on Debian v6.0.6

1. Stop the LDAP server:
   
   /etc/init.d/slapd stop
2. Open the right OpenLDAP config file with an editor:
   
   vi /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config/olcDatabase\=\{1\}hdb.ldif
3. Add new lines (after the one with olcDbIndex: objectClass eq in it) for the missing indexes. Eg.:
   
   olcDbIndex: cn eq
olcDbIndex: gidNumber eq
olcDbIndex: memberUid eq
olcDbIndex: uid eq
olcDbIndex: uidNumber eq
olcDbIndex: uniqueMember eq
4. Run the OpenLDAP indexer for your configuration:
   
   slapindex -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d/
5. Fix file permissions in your OpenLDAP database:
   
   sudo chown -R openldap:openldap /var/lib/ldap
6. Start the LDAP server:
   
   /etc/init.d/slapd start

VCenter 5 & Oracle 11g - Waiting for vpxd to initialize: .failed

So I have a VMWare vCenter v5 appliance connected to Oracle 11g database but I noticed I couldnt login to the vSphere client. I ssh'd to vCenter and found out vpxd process was down. When I manually tried to start it I got and error.

vcenter:~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-vpxd start

Waiting for vpxd to initialize: .failed

Its fails to start... why?

So I tried to start it from the vCenter web console and I got 

"ORA-28001: the password has expired"

I decided to login to Oracle DB and check ...yup....I found out my user account is expired.

SQL> select username,account_status from dba_users;

USERNAME       ACCOUNT_STATUS

------------------------------ --------------------------------

SYS       OPEN

SYSTEM       OPEN

VPXADMIN       EXPIRED

So first I setup a new password

"alter user VPXADMIN identified by MYNEWPASSWORD;"

And I dont need passwords to expire on the server so I fixed that by running

"ALTER PROFILE DEFAULT LIMIT PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME UNLIMITED;"