Re: Restore Reviewboard, Disaster happened.

2020-01-15 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
I'm not a developer for the tool, but I've poked around on the innards enough to take some stabs at guesses. On Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 5:21:34 PM UTC-8, Danila Ladner wrote: > > Hello guys i am in need of RB help. > I have lost my reviewboard installation, i only have mysql backup of it

Weird authentication issue - username + password not working with RBT

2019-07-22 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
I'm not even sure where / how to troubleshoot this issue. I've got clients of the server that I'm managing that have no problem accessing the ReviewBoard website with a standard username and password login. (Note, as it may be relevant to understanding / diagnosing the issue: - I server

Re: Review Board Integration With GitLab

2019-06-14 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
Did you upgrade ReviewBoard? To what version did you upgrade? I'm struggling with a GitLab problem right now, and certainly got past what you describe when using ReviewBoard 3.0.14. Eric On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 12:51:03 AM UTC-7, Akshay Agarwal wrote: > > Can someone help? > > On Friday,

Re: site-upgrade from 1.7.14 to 2.0.20 fails

2019-06-05 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 7:58:29 AM UTC-7, Martin Großhauser wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > Indeed, there was version 1.7.27 from EPEL installed. But the version > running according to the web interface was 1.7.14. Also in the SQL-table > siteconfig_siteconfiguration I see a string

Re: In search of help packaging ReviewBoard 3.0.14 for Gentoo Linux, problem when running server, probably something simple I overlooked.

2019-06-04 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
Hi Stephen, On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:12 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:31 PM 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board > Community wrote: > > The one challenge I observed with the ReviewBoard packages was that > rbintegrations included a small handfule of bina

Re: In search of help packaging ReviewBoard 3.0.14 for Gentoo Linux, problem when running server, probably something simple I overlooked.

2019-06-04 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
When I reset my VM, and applied the upgrade to the Gentoo packages on a "clean" install of the 2.5.18 version, the end-result worked just fine. Thanks for your help. Your questions prodded me to keep looking, to make sure I could properly describe the problem, and that got me to find my mistak

In search of help packaging ReviewBoard 3.0.14 for Gentoo Linux, problem when running server, probably something simple I overlooked.

2019-05-30 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
Mostly, I've managed to get quite far with packaging ReviewBoard for Linux. Although I don't know much about the Gentoo packaging system, it has turned out to be easier than I feared. We're currently running ReviewBoard 2.5.18, installed using the portage package manager. So we have done this

Re: HELP: Upgrade to 3.0.7 results in all reviews returning a Something broke! (Error 500)

2019-05-30 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
Hi Alfred, Were you ever able to resolve this issue? I'm now seeing an roughly identical problem with my install of 3.0.14... I'm running Djblets 1.0.11, but looks to be the only substantive difference Eric. On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 11:41:48 AM UTC-7, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > >

Re: Trying to get latest ReviewBoard to work on Gentoo Linux

2018-05-03 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
Gentoo patches to pip to prevent installation as the root user - so as to avoid package manager conflicts between emerge and pip. To make it work, I'd need to install ReviewBoard packages as a non-root user. Certainly possible to make that work, but it starts to feel like just as many hoops as

Re: Trying to get latest ReviewBoard to work on Gentoo Linux

2018-04-18 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
orage/pipeline.storage.NonPackagingPipelineCachedStorage/" -i djblets/settings.py || die Will this cause any problems (other than perhaps being slower than if the post-processing was in place)? Eric. On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Eric Johnson <e...@tibco.com> wrote: > I'm tripping over getting

Trying to get latest ReviewBoard to work on Gentoo Linux

2018-04-18 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
I'm tripping over getting the Djblets package to work. My current failure looks like this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "contrib/internal/build-media.py", line 36, in ret = call_command('collectstatic', interactive=False, verbosity=2) File

Djblets missing requires constraint on markdown?

2018-02-14 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via Review Board Community
I'm working on packaging ReviewBoard for Gentoo, so that I can deploy an update. I noticed that the Djblets-1.0.3 release does not state a requirement on markdown. I'm not a Python expert, so I don't know if there's a good reason for its absence, or just an oversight? In any case, if it does

Re: I'm seeing a "The file was not found in the repository" error against a Git server but don't know why...

2017-07-31 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via reviewboard
I believe I figured this out. Turns out, a space had snuck into a URL for repository configuration. Perhaps the server should validate that the URL has no spaces? Eric. On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:35 PM, David Trowbridge wrote: > Eric, > > How is the repository configured

Re: Review groups UI not letting me delete users....

2017-03-16 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via reviewboard
Perfect! Thanks for letting me know! On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:37 PM, David Trowbridge wrote: > Eric, > > This is a known bug where some of the existing users in the group have > since been marked "inactive". If you remove those users, you should be able > to save it. > >

Re: Attempted to switch my server to HTTPS, and rbt setup-repo reports SSLV3_ALERT_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE

2016-09-10 Thread 'Eric Johnson' via reviewboard
Thanks so much for the reply On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Christian Hammond wrote: > Hi Eric, > > RBTools itself isn't handling SSL/TLS, and has no awareness of the various > protocols/ciphers. We use Python's urllib2 to establish the connections, > and that's

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 80769: ordinal not in range(128)

2015-10-29 Thread Eric Johnson
When I posted before, I surmised that the problem might be on the server. To check that, have you tried browsing around in the web UI, fetching the diffs from previous reviews? For a proper test, you may need to restart memcached. I figured out that the problem I was seeing is a problem with

What if I move my repositories?

2015-05-21 Thread Eric Johnson
Hopefully a quick question. What do I do if I move a Subversion repository? (Running ReviewBoard 2.0.15) I went into the admin/db/scmtools/repository/ UI, and changed the URL. Yet, if I immediately click on the [RBTools Setup] button, I get shown the old URL. Restarting both the server, and

Upgrade to 2.0.15 just worked, and users liked it

2015-05-19 Thread Eric Johnson
Usually you get support requests on this mailing list. Thought I should toss in a email of gratitude. Deployed an upgrade from 1.7.28 -- 2.0.15 over the weekend. It pretty much just worked, once I fixed the minor issues in my Ansible scripts. And then I started hearing from grateful users, who

Confusion about Git configuration

2015-03-27 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi ReviewBoard Devs, Using ReviewBoard 1.7.28. When adding/changing an HTTP hosted Git repository (using Gitolite), I've found that I have to configure the repository with the following pattern: Path: http://username:passw...@gitserver.example.com/git/git-repo-path Mirror path:

Re: Crazy difficulties trying to upgrade from 1.7.7.1 - any tool for finding/correcting DB problems?

2015-02-12 Thread Eric Johnson
://www.reviewboard.org Beanbag, Inc. - https://www.beanbaginc.com -Original Message- From: Eric Johnson e...@tibco.com Reply: reviewboard@googlegroups.com reviewboard@googlegroups.com Date: February 12, 2015 at 9:25:04 AM To: David Trowbridge trowb...@gmail.com Cc: reviewboard@googlegroups.com

Re: Crazy difficulties trying to upgrade from 1.7.7.1 - any tool for finding/correcting DB problems?

2015-02-12 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi David, Christian, Thanks for your help so far! Yesterday, I was able to find the time between meetings to try the conversion approach that Christian suggested, and it appeared to work. I have to test it again today, to make sure I didn't somehow trick myself. As for jumping to the later

Re: error Installing RBTools

2014-10-02 Thread Eric Johnson
I'm not an expert in any of this, but there's one very suspicious detail in your log: It starts with: File C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_ install-script.py, line 5, in module and ends with: File C:\csvn\Python25\lib\socket.py, line 47, in module import _socket Notice that somehow the

Re: Authenticating through multiple LDAP servers

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Johnson
So far as I know, you'll need to write your own customized authentication/authorization plugin. It isn't hard. Been many months since I did this, but if you have any familiarity with Python coding, then taking the existing authorization handlers and modifying it should be straightforward. Eric.

Re: Change in LDAP authentication behavior in 1.7.14 breaks environments that don't allow anonymous searches

2013-09-24 Thread Eric Johnson
I found that it was easiest to simply copy the code from the authenticator closest to what I want,ed and then customize as needed. Then select the new authenticator as your custom option. Eric On Sep 24, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Daniel Kan danielk...@gmail.com wrote: I am using RB 1.7.x with an

Re: How to migrate reviewboard from Windows server(1.5) to Linux server(1.7)

2013-08-21 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi Patrick, Your email is a little unclear on details. Did you see a 505 error when loading the MySQL data into the database? It would probably be useful to know exactly which steps you did, and what you see that is different from what you expect/ Did you install the same version of

Re: Can't install ReviewBoard with rb-site

2013-07-26 Thread Eric Johnson
I ran into this problem when I tried to upgrade past 1.7.7.1. Very curious about the answer. Eric Sent from my iPad On Jul 25, 2013, at 5:04 AM, Dirk Best star...@gmail.com wrote: I've changed the reviewboard database to latin1 and it installs fine now (because the key is now less than

Re: Users are automatically created if authenticated through ldap

2013-06-12 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi Pablo, I can't paste the exact source code, because I have specifics in the code that match up to my company. However, explaining my approach is fairly simple: a) I have a cron job that runs regularly (hourly/daily, I don't remember) which grabs the list of users that are supposed to be

Re: Users are automatically created if authenticated through ldap

2013-06-06 Thread Eric Johnson
authenticator? On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:02:10 PM UTC-7, Eric Johnson wrote: I achieved your aim for our local copy of ReviewBoard by snagging the existing LDAP code, and modifying it slightly. I then used the modified code as a custom authenticator. That way, unauthorized people

Re: Delete users from sql, auth_user

2012-12-18 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi Ben, I've resorted to a similar approach to automatically updating the database with users. However, unlike you,it appears, I take a more conservative approach, and never *delete* users. Rather, I mark them as inactive. That way, you don't have to worry about foreign key constraints.

Re: Delete users from sql, auth_user

2012-10-25 Thread Eric Johnson
I'd add that it is unlikely that you really want to delete all traces of a user in ReviewBoard history. If you need to deactivate an account, why not just do that? Eric Sent from my iPad On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:28 PM, David Trowbridge trowb...@gmail.com wrote: Can you clarify why you want to

Re: post-review problem

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi K Nagamurali, I'm just a reviewboard user, but have you solved your problem, or diagnosed it further? What version of the ReviewBoard server are you running? From the command line, can you ping the server that you're trying to reach? Is it running ReviewBoard successfully? Is this failure

Re: Problem creating a review after upgrading to 1.6.6 on CentOS 5.8 (patch file too large?)

2012-05-16 Thread Eric Johnson
I know I previously looked to see if I could get memcached to report what it has cached, but I didn't find anything. Eric On May 14, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Christian Hammond chip...@chipx86.com wrote: Hi, Sorry, been on vacation this week. I'm not sure if memcached provides an easy way to

do I need a new instance of memcached for each instance of reviewboard?

2012-03-15 Thread Eric Johnson
I've got multiple instances of reviewboard (version 1.5.7) running on the same server (so that I can sandbox the users so that there's no risk of them seeing code from other code repositories that they don't have access to. I'm only using one instance of memcached, though. Do I need a separate

Re: backends.py: difference between search and search_s

2011-10-17 Thread Eric Johnson
Hi Jack, I didn't see anyone respond to your question. If you haven't figured out the answer, it is the difference between a synchronous (search_s) and an asynchronous (search) invocation. -Eric. On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, jack jack jais...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, What is the

Easy_install post-review issue with 64-bit windows

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Johnson
I've got some clients of the server I set up that wish to use 64-bit Windows. Unfortunately, it appears that Python easy_install doesn't work properly in that environment. Consequently, those users cannot get RBTools (post-review) to work. Is there a work-around, or instructions I can point

Re: Importing users from LDAP

2011-05-15 Thread Eric Johnson
On our ReviewBoard server, we push the data into the database tables. Has been working quite well. Of course, you have to pay attention to users from LDAP that already exist, and perhaps users who have been disabled in LDAP. No automated way to do it, other than that, at least that I'm aware.

Re: Users are automatically created if authenticated through ldap

2011-03-23 Thread Eric Johnson
I achieved your aim for our local copy of ReviewBoard by snagging the existing LDAP code, and modifying it slightly. I then used the modified code as a custom authenticator. That way, unauthorized people- not in the reviewboard DB - don't get authenticated. Eric On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:29 AM,

Re: LDAP and Non Ascii Characters

2011-03-15 Thread Eric Johnson
Could be a browser configuration issue too. Did you ask the person to try from a different browser? Eric On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:45 AM, daniel.j.la...@googlemail.com daniel.j.la...@googlemail.com wrote: I am using LDAP to authenticate users in Review board - this obviously means I have little

Re: Why is Settings available to Staff?

2010-11-18 Thread Eric Johnson
. -Eric. Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Eric Johnson ericjohn...@alumni.brown.edu wrote: I'm struggling with a particular configuration problem. I've got three

Why is Settings available to Staff?

2010-11-17 Thread Eric Johnson
I'm struggling with a particular configuration problem. I've got three classes of users... Ones that can work on reviews, ones that can do anything (superusers), and ones I want to restrict to being able to muck around with the admin/database models for changesets, diffs, and reviews. The

Restricting allowed users

2010-11-01 Thread Eric Johnson
? Thanks for any help/direction you can offer. -Eric Johnson -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group

Getting ImproperlyConfigured: [Thu Sep 02 17:40:49 2010] [error] [client 10.105.178.26] ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing middleware reviewboard.admin.middleware: No module named encoders

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Johnson
As far as I can tell, I have all the dependencies installed, except I'm getting this error (error modified to exclude actual server names): mod_python (pid=431, interpreter='reviewboard_foo_example_com', phase='PythonHandler', handler='django.core.handlers.modpython'): Application error