Removing ebox from loading on a headless server

[matthewboh]

Okay - I've done something and I can't get it back.

I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server to 10.04 LTS - rebooted and things ran good. I knew I had a few problems, but DHCP and DNS were booting up and working fine for me.

I went to take a look at Webmin, but apparently that's been removed from support for Ubuntu 10.04 - so I thought, I'll use eBox. I realized that Ebox didn't have the network module turned on, so I tried to turn it on. I found out the installation was missing scriptaculous, so I got that and installed that and then turned on the network module.

I then rebooted the machine - and now nothing. It hangs when I get to the load for Apache.

I would like to disable the network module for eBox, but can't find documentation for how to do that from the command line - which I have to use because the damn box won't boot and I'm running from a Live CD.

ARRRRRRRR! Someone please help!

In the meantime, I'm going to try renaming the network module conf name in /etc/ebox and see if that does anything....

[naelq]

hi,
eBox for 10.04 is still beta, though for home/basic usage might be fine.
anyway, to disable an eBox module, issue:

#sudo /etc/init.d/ebox 'module_name' stop

which is in your case:

#sudo /etc/init.d/ebox network stop

maybe you should take a look @ the logs in /var/log/ebox.. & try to understand what's causing the problem



nael

[matthewboh]

Thanks - but my problem is that it won't even boot all the way. Right now, I'm accessing the box with a Live CD, so I need to be able to prevent ebox from loading at all.

How would I do that?

[naelq]

ohh!!

option 1:
nuke it!
> chroot into system
> remove it from the system:

#sudo apt-get -V purge ebox

option 2:
> chroot into system
> use the following to prevent it from auto start:

#sudo update-rc.d -f ebox remove

nael

[matthewboh]

Did that! Thanks - but I went one step too far.

apt-get was complaining that I had all these other programs, and I should run apt-get autoremove - well that removed WAAAY too much stuff.

I would like to slap the ebox people silly....