Express Disc troubleshooting

Amahi 7 Express Disc Toubleshooting

Second reboot is not occurring (install is not finished)

One reason for this to happen is a wrong setting in the Network page of your Installer.
It says by default
Hostname: localhost.localdomain

I filled in ams.ldqk.net (substituted localhost by ams and localdomain by ldqk.net)

In my Control Panel - Home Domain I entered
ldqk.net
The installer will finish correctly (so it seems) but the second reboot will never happen.

In fact the installer ends in errors which you can only find in the amahi logfiles when you are logged in as root. Nothing is displayed at the screen.

The solution was to enter in the Network page of the installer for localhost.localdomain ams.ldqk Most likely the second dot caused the problems.

HTTP server is not started by default

After succesfull second reboot I noticed that the AMAHI desktop did not start. Via the command ps -ef|grep hhtp I noticed that there was not running a http server.

The command systemctl status httpd showed me that an error occurred during startup of the http service.

The command systemctl restart httpd systemctl status httpd fixed this and showed me that http service was started correctly.

After a reboot this error occurred again. Now changing the value in
/etc/hostname to localhost fixed this.
After a reboot the http service is now started as it should be.

My advice leave the values in the amahi express install at the network section to its default value being localhost.localdomain

Amahi 6 Express

Reboot Loop

Sometimes, the express cd installer gets caught in a reboot loop.

It asks you to reboot, then it tells you it needs to reboot again over and over. If you are one of the lucky ones experiencing this, here's what to do:

If there is no network, you can try this:

• Select debug
• system-config-network (configure your network interface correctly ( I used static ) / also make sure your dns are configured exit the system-config-network)
• /etc/init.d/network restart
• check that eth0 has started, if not edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0; modify ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes; then issue the "ifup eth0" command.
• ConfigAmahi (wait for a while untill it says reboot, then reboot)

Yum Update

If you try to do yum update after install and have problems, try this solution.