I reluctantly used easy_install to get ReviewBoard 1.0 installed on
my CentOS 5.3 server (I would have preferred to use an RPM based
install, but that is not available). I actually started to install
when 1.0rc2 was the latest but had problems back then as well. At
the moment I don't kno
I'm still in the process of setting up out ReviewBoard server
(struggling with LDAP/AD integration at the moment), but I'm looking
slightly ahead. It appears that post-review is the recommended way to
create a review (we're using Subversion if that matters), and I can
see that post-review
I'm still struggling to set up a ReviewBoard server on a CentOS 5.3
system. I've gotten much further, but the latest roadblock is that
pysvn won't compile due to some missing libraries. Since RB is not
available as an RPM, I feel like I've already lost control of all the
bits and pieces
On Oct 10, 2009, at 6:10, Raghu wrote:
> post-review is usually run from the user's development box, not the
> server. It will connect to the server over http(s) and upload the
> review request.
Yes, I realize that, which is why I asked how I can get post-review
installed on all the develope
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:27, David Trowbridge wrote:
> If you run post-review with --debug, it'll spit out a bunch of output
> which should hopefully tell you the real error.
I must be going bling; I didn't see that option in the output of
"post-review -h" but it's right there at the bottom. He
On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:42, Alfred von Campe wrote:
The error I posted yesterday is suddenly gone today; that is, I ran
post-review again in the same sandbox and the review posted without
errors. I have not changed a thing on the server. Furthermore, when
I went into the web interface and
Hi Christian:
> Also, when you saw ClientError from post-review, that was output
> from the server. So it's the same problem. I'd recommend restarting
> Apache just in case it is an issue with one or two threads not
> having imported it successfully.
I thought I had restarted Apache, but p
I've gotten the AD integration to work. It was a lot easier than I
expected and users can log in to ReviewBoard with their regular
usernames and passwords. This is great, but I've run into a few issues:
1. I can not add a user to a review group unless that user has
logged in to RB at l
On Oct 13, 2009, at 17:00, Christian Hammond wrote:
> The 1.0.x releases don't support svn+ssh, but the 1.1 in-
> development releases do. I would not suggest using 1.1 in
> production yet though, as there will be bugs.
I'm still in the process of setting up our ReviewBoard server, but
I've
On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:34, Christian Hammond wrote:
> You should be able to add a user without them having an account yet
> if you type their username in the reviewers field, but aside from
> that, there's no mechanism for auto-importing every user from
> Active Directory. This is sort of an
On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:45, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> That's actually the standard behavior. Did you maintain an SMTP server
> in the settings?
It was set to the same host name as the RB server itself and the
"Send e-mails..." checkbox was disabled. I changed it to use our
internal SMTP
On Oct 14, 2009, at 13:23, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> Did you try without setting the credentials?
I tried to, but it won't let me. That is, I clear the Username and
Password fields in the E-Mail Settings screen and click on Save. But
when the screen refreshes, the fields are filled i
On Oct 14, 2009, at 17:56, Christian Hammond wrote:
> It's possible that your browser is filling in these fields, and
> that they're not actually being saved in the database. It's really
> annoying. I've been meaning to look into whether or not the browser
> can be told not to provide auto-f
On Oct 14, 2009, at 18:49, Christian Hammond wrote:
> We use Django's e-mail functionality which unfortunately doesn't
> give us any sort of debugging information.
>
> What mail server are you using? And is it on the same host? Do you
> have anything like DKIM turned on?
Sorry for not replyi
On Oct 16, 2009, at 3:55, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Is it literally /logs? Whatever directory you specify must exist
> and be writable by the web server. It will also likely take a
> server restart for logging to kick in.
Well, the rb-site script created a logs directory at the same level
Did something change in the way Subversion repositories that are accessed via
ssh are handled in RB 1.5? Our setup is as follows:
1. Our web server runs on a Linux server as our build account (not apache)
2. The build account is configured to allow password-less ssh access to any
other Linu
Christian:
> SSH support for Subversion (and other types of repositories) was hard to set
> up and required too much manual intervention. In 1.5, we added built-in
> support for handling HTTPS and SSH. If you had an existing manual setup, then
> it is indeed possible that the changes could caus
We are experiencing a strange hang when viewing one particular review. When we
click on the "View DIff" we get a new web page and the "Files Changed:" section
lists all the files that have changed in this particular request. There are 20
files, and the information for the first 6 is updated in
> Yes, and if you use sqlite especially, you're certain to hit this.
>
> Alfred, what are you using for a database?
We are using MySQL.
> 2. "complex" diffs being slow to generate diffs, this is a feature of
> the batteries includes difflib in python.
>
> So actually, we don't use diffl
> Can you tell me more about your setup (server-side)? In particular:
>
> * OS/distro
> * Review Board version
> * Memory
> * CPU
> * Python version
Sure, here is our server data:
CentOS 5.5
ReviewBoard 1.5
Memory 2GB
3.06GHz Intel Xeon
Python 2.4.3
> Strange. When this happens, can yo
On Nov 15, 2011, at 13:13, Stephen Gallagher wrote:\
> Just to let anyone know that happens to be using Review Board on an
> older system running Django 1.1.x, there's an upgrade bug that I've just
> opened at http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/issues/detail?id=2387
How do I know what version o
On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:50, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Review Board 1.6.6 is out, and adds support for getting GitHub API tokens for
> private repos.
I'm running ReviewBoard 1.5.4 on Centos 5.8, and would like to upgrade to
something more recent (i.e., 1.6.6). However, I've only upgraded once bef
I recently upgraded our ReviewBoard server to version 1.6.6. First, thanks for
a great product and an easy upgrade; the upgrade instructions worked
flawlessly. The issue described below may have nothing to do with the upgrade,
but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
Today a user complained
On May 7, 2012, at 15:20, Christian Hammond wrote:
> That said, we do have a 1MB limit for diffs now (but that's not what you're
> hitting), as Review Board can get bogged down if too many people are
> processing large diffs at once. It's not configurable yet, but in general,
> very large diffs
On May 7, 2012, at 16:56, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Memory and how much of it that memcached can use is crucial. We cache a
> *lot*, since fetching files from the repository, patching them, and
> generating diffs is all very expensive. So the more that memcached can hold
> at once, the faster
I must be missing a simple step somewhere. I’m trying to migrate a ReviewBoard
version 1.7.27 instance running on CentOS 6 to version 2.5.6.1 on CentOS 7.
I’ve installed ReviewBoard (via EPEL RPM) on the new server, installed MySQL
and created the reviewboard database, loaded the SQL dump from
> On Aug 11, 2016, at 19:41, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
> There's a draft of a document on my computer, but nothing online yet. I need
> to finish it.
If you want me to review/edit it as I’m doing the migration, I will be glad to.
Just let me know.
> The database password is stored in $site
On Aug 14, 2016, at 19:55, Christian Hammond wrote:
> This looks like a MyISAM vs. InnoDB table format issue. You'll need to either
> make sure all your tables are converted to InnoDB (you can replace "MyISAM"
> with "InnoDB" in the database dump when you go to load it back in), or
> configure
On Aug 15, 2016, at 16:21, Christian Hammond wrote:
> The Review Board log files ($sitedir/logs) should include some information.
> Failing that, the Apache error log.
>
> You may have to install the appropriate Python modules for Active Directory
> again. (I wouldn't expect a crash, but there
On Aug 15, 2016, at 17:31, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
> What version of ldap do you have? It sounds like it may be too old. Sometimes
> the distro-provided packages are too stale to rely upon.
>
> I'd recommend uninstalling the RPM and instead installing using pip:
Good idea. The repo based P
On Aug 15, 2016, at 18:03, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
> To check, was Apache restarted after installing the new module?
No, but it occurred to me to do that just before I saw your post, and now it’s
working! It appears to be a bit slower than our previous instance, but that
may be due to the
I was browsing through the reviewboard.log file while debugging an unrelated
issue when I came across a bunch of errors that all look like this:
2016-11-21 14:07:55,959 - ERROR - - Failed to send notification to slack.com:
unknown url type:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/py
ke the "rbslack" extension was installed and activated. You can
> fix these errors by going to "Extensions" in the admin UI and disabling it.
>
> -David
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:44 AM Alfred von Campe <mailto:alf...@von-campe.com>> wrote:
> I wa
When I created the repositories on our ReviewBoard server, I originally left
the Bug Tracker information blank. I would now like to update all repos to
include the URL to our Jira server, and was wondering if there was a quick way
to do it either via the command line or with MySQL commands? I’
Our ReviewBoard server is configured to use Active Directory for
authentication. The Domain Controller it was configured to use for
authentication had a catastrophic HW failure so users can no longer log in to
ReviewBoard. Fortunately I had an existing ReviewBoard session open in a
browser ta
entered around that.
>
> If you do get locked out of the server due to the backend failing and session
> expiring, you can always use `rb-site manage /path/to/sitedir
> createsuperuser` to create a new local administration account.
>
> Christian
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1
> Christian
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Alfred von Campe <mailto:alf...@von-campe.com>> wrote:
> Christian:
>
> The original domain controller configured in ReviewBoard is still down, but
> I’ve reconfigured the ReviewBoard instance to use a different doma
Is there a way to prevent users from getting access to review requests unless
they are logged in? It’s been brought to my attention that you can see review
requests and their associated code diffs even when you are not logged in, and
we are trying to prevent that.
Thanks,
Alfred
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t; -David
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:01 PM Alfred von Campe <mailto:alf...@von-campe.com>> wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent users from getting access to review requests unless
> they are logged in? It’s been brought to my attention that you can see
> review requests a
Trying to access some, but not all, of my review groups in the Web UI result in
a "Something broke! (Error 500)” error, and I get the (slightly sanitized)
traceback included below. Any ideas what may be causing this?
Alfred
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site
On Apr 27, 2018, at 17:45, David Trowbridge wrote:
>
> I can reproduce this. We'll get a fix in for the next 3.0.x release.
Great, thanks for the quick response.
Alfred
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I’m not sure what is going on: the initial “easy_install -U ReviewBoard” did
return an error, but after forcing the install of version 3.0.3 where I was
upgrading from, another easy_install -U ReviewBoard succeeded, as did the
rb-site upgrade. I can add users again to review groups (which is t
> On Jun 7, 2018, at 14:24, Alfred von Campe wrote:
>
> I’m not sure what is going on: the initial “easy_install -U ReviewBoard” did
> return an error, but after forcing the install of version 3.0.3 where I was
> upgrading from, another easy_install -U ReviewBoard succee
We are using RB 1.6.6 and LDAP for authentication. We recently had a
contractor become a permanent employee and because of this his userid changed.
So he is in the database twice now, once with the old userid and once with the
new one. I can't delete the old userid as it will delete all the o
On Sep 12, 2012, at 17:32, Christian Hammond wrote:
> An admin should be able to go into the database and just rename the username
> for that user.
I'm the admin, but my SQL is a bit rusty and I'm also not very familiar with
the schema. I may be able to figure it out, but any examples/hints wo
On Sep 12, 2012, at 18:10, Christian Hammond wrote:
> You don't need to touch SQL. Just go into the Review Board admin UI, then
> click Users, find the username, and rename it there.
Doh! I didn't try that. But I just did and it tells me "User with this
Username already exisits." Which makes
On Sep 12, 2012, at 21:00, Christian Hammond wrote:
> So the new one has review requests associated with it now? Otherwise, I'd say
> just delete the new one and update the old.
Yes, the new one has reviews and comments, etc. associated with it (actually
more than the old user does).
> If ther
On Apr 14, 2013, at 18:06, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> After much blood, sweat and tears, I have finally managed to land
> ReviewBoard 1.7.6 in the EPEL 6 add-on repository for Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 6 (and its clones). The update should filter out to the
> [epel-testing] mirrors in the next 24
We are running ReviewBoard 1.6.6 installed via easy-install on an old CentOS
5.9 server with apache-modpython, and I would like to migrate this to a new
server running CentOS 6.4 and apache-wsgi and the latest ReviewBoard version
installed via yum from epel-testing repo.
Are the steps to do thi
On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:55, I wrote:
> We are running ReviewBoard 1.6.6 installed via easy-install on an old CentOS
> 5.9 server with apache-modpython, and I would like to migrate this to a new
> server running CentOS 6.4 and apache-wsgi and the latest ReviewBoard version
> installed via yum fro
I'm trying to upgrade a REviewBoard instance from 1.6.6 to 1.7.13. I've
created a dump of the existing database and am running the following script on
the new server:
#!/bin/sh
RB_SITE="/var/www/html/rb"
RB_USER="admin"
RB_EMAIL=""
RB_DOMAIN=""
RB_PASSWORD=""
# Delete and create e
On Aug 23, 2013, at 16:14, David Trowbridge wrote:
> What's happening is that rb-site install is creating a bunch of tables, and
> then you're importing in the database dump but it's ending up with a mix of
> old and new.
>
> I'd recommend installing 1.6.6 on the new server, importing the data
On Aug 23, 2013, at 16:29, David Trowbridge wrote:
> Let's try this--after creating the new site, but before loading the database
> dump, delete the new database that rb-site created.
Sigh, I started playing with installing ReviewBoard 1.6 with easy install, and
seems to have broken rb-site:
On Aug 23, 2013, at 16:29, David Trowbridge wrote:
> Let's try this--after creating the new site, but before loading the database
> dump, delete the new database that rb-site created.
This seems to have worked. Because I had tried to install ReviewBoard 1.6.6
via easy_install, my server was i
On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:07, I wrote:
> But now I have another problem. During this upgrade, the paths to the RB
> site have changed slightly, and after the installation I get a message about
> a missing htdocs/media/uploaded directory using he old path. So I guess that
> somewhere in the datab
On Aug 27, 2013, at 14:58, Christian Hammond wrote:
> What type of auth were you using? You'll want to ensure you have the proper
> Python modules installed for LDAP, NIS or ActiveDirectory.
We are using LDAP. I was able to log in after using the FQDN for our server (I
googled for "Cookies mu
I recently had to migrate a ReviewBoard instance from one server to another. I
have the new instance running, and everything seems to be OK except that emails
sent by the new instance contain URLs that point to the old server. When I log
into the Admin interface and try to change the Server fi
On Jul 8, 2014, at 15:12, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Which version of Review Board is this? I remember an old bug about this, but
> it has since been fixed.
The latest available via the EPEL repo: 1.7.25
Alfred
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I've successfully migrated a ReviewBoard instance from version 1.6 running on
CentOS 5 to version 1.7.25 running on CentOS 6. Well, almost successfully: we
can't download attachments from the new instance. The apache logs show that it
is looking for the files in /rb/htdocs/uploaded/files/... w
On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:25, I wrote:
> I've successfully migrated a ReviewBoard instance from version 1.6 running on
> CentOS 5 to version 1.7.25 running on CentOS 6. Well, almost successfully:
> we can't download attachments from the new instance. The apache logs show
> that it is looking for
On Aug 26, 2014, at 18:27, David Trowbridge wrote:
> Can you run 'rb-site manage /path/to/site list-siteconfig' and send us the
> output?
Sure, see attached.
Alfred
siteconfig.log
Description: Binary data
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 20:22, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Can you try changing the media URL to have a '/' as a suffix? So:
> /rb/htdocs/media/, instead of /rb/htdocs/media.
I did this, restarted the web server, and tried to download the attachment
again. It still failed, but the access_log file
On Aug 26, 2014, at 20:22, Christian Hammond wrote:
> Can you try changing the media URL to have a '/' as a suffix? So:
> /rb/htdocs/media/, instead of /rb/htdocs/media.
I did that and reported back that it still wasn't working (although it appears
that the web server is accessing the right di
Bump! Just refreshing this thread to see if anyone has any ideas why I still
can't download attachments.
Alfred
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 20:22, Christian Hammond wrote:
>
>> Can you try changing the media URL to have a '/' as a suffix? So:
>> /rb/htdocs/media/, instead of /rb/htdocs/media.
>
Stephen:
> Review Board 2.0.11 packages for Fedora 21 and EPEL 7 are now on their
> way to their respective testing repositories.
Any update on Review Board 2.X packages for RHEL 6? I know that you were
working on it a few months ago.
Alfred
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On Oct 28, 2014, at 15:15, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> No progress has been made on that, I'm afraid. It's a bigger undertaking
> than it seems and I've frankly been swamped with other work
> (particularly the Fedora 21 release). I'd love to have someone help with
> this…
I don’t know what kind o
We have been using ReviewBoard with our Subversion repos using svn+ssh://
access, and while functional, it’s been a little slow. Performance with
https:// access to our Subversion servers is noticeably faster, but when I
configure the Repository in ReviewBoard and specify the username and passw
Christian:
> If you upgrade to the 2.0 releases, all passwords will be encrypted. I know
> it's not trivial, and maybe we can backport that to a 1.7 release, but as
> we're about to start on the 2.5 betas, we're unlikely to continue making
> major changes to 1.7 from here on out. We'll see what
We are using ReviewBoard 1.7.27 on CentOS 6 (I would love to update to 2.X but
that’s still not easy on CentOS 6 as far as I know). Reviews re working fine,
but today a user tried to add a screenshot to a review, and while the file got
uploaded (I can see it under htdocs/media/uploaded/files/…
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the problem described below?
Alfred
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 10:05, Alfred von Campe wrote:
>
> We are using ReviewBoard 1.7.27 on CentOS 6 (I would love to update to 2.X
> but that’s still not easy on CentOS 6 as far as I know).
On Feb 25, 2015, at 16:30, David Trowbridge wrote:
>
> What does the web server configuration look like?
ServerName hepdsw-rb.bose.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/rb/htdocs"
# Error handlers
ErrorDocument 500 /errordocs/500.html
WSGIPassAuthorization On
David:
> Can you check the result of `rb-site manage /var/www/html/rb/ get-siteconfig
> -- --key=site_media_url` ?
>
> My guess is that it will say "/rb/htdocs/media/"
>
> If so, run this:
>
> `rb-site manage /var/www/html/rb/ set-siteconfig -- --key=site_media_url
> --value="/media/"
>
> An
This is what I do on the CentOS 6 systems I mange:
# Install repo file and then Python itself
rpm -ivh
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/i386/ius-release-1.0-14.ius.el6.noarch.rpm
yum install -y python27 python27-virtualenv
Alfred
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 17:31, Zachary Gallagher
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