See my Instructable if you are rebuilding a Felco 7 Pruner…

Say the Hudson script locks up during boot, for example, after you upgrade to 2.1.1 and it does not work and someone said removing the –daemon argument makes it work and something else fails so you roll back the hudson.war and restart and it now locks up on boot. No SSH – sshd is the next service to load. I had to “power down” the VM, and tried to “force the runlevel“: several ways, say, using “init=/bin/sh 3″. Nothing worked.

The obvious thing is to do the Interactive Boot (type I). Someone said this didn’t work, so I didn’t try. Liars. Worked great. Said “Y” until I hit Hudson, typed “N”, and then “C”ontinue… voila!

2.1.1 has some problems. Wait until 2.1.2 at least.

Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.

Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1″. Show me the command lines.

Certainly.

• “Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.”
  • Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/
  • Download it – make sure the copy is here. Open it up.
• “Backup ALL your WordPress files in your WordPress directory. Don’t forget your .htaccess file.”
  • Make a local shadow directory
    • $ rsync -vur ./sarajane/ ./backups/sarajane-snapshot-20110416/
  • Make a tar file for download for archive
  • $ tar cvf sarajane-snapshot-20110416.tar sarajane/
  • $ gzip sarajane-snapshot-20110416.tar
  • Verify the backups you created are there and usable. This is essential.
• “Deactivate ALL your Plugins.”
• “Ensure first four steps are completed. Do not attempt the upgrade unless you have completed the first four steps.”
• Gotta upgrade the MYSQL Database? I did… The nice thing is, use two different ones. Since you saved the original directory, you can switch back to old state and db by replacing the directory.
  • Per Backing_Up_the_Database
    • $ mysqldump --add-drop-table -h mysqlservername  -u mysqlusername -p dbname> ms-db-backup-20110416.sql
  • Per Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
    • $ mysql -h mysqlservername -u mysqlusername-p dbname< ms-db-backup-20110416.sql
• edit wp-config.php (save the old one)
• $ cp wp-config.php wp-config.php.save
• $ vi wp-config.php ...
• Use new SVN install into new folder
• $ mkdir sarajane2
• $ cd sarajane2
• $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.1.1 .
• Copy these files from your old site to the new
  • $ export OLDBLOG=$HOME/sarajane
  • $ export NEWBLOG=$HOME/sarajane2
  • $ cp $OLDBLOG/wp-config.php $NEWBLOG/
  • $ ls $OLDBLOG/wp-content/cache
  • $ rm -rf $OLDBLOG/wp-content/cache
  • $ ls $OLDBLOG/wp-content/plugins/widgets
  • $ rm -rf $OLDBLOG/wp-content/plugins/widgets
  • $ rsync -vur --exclude=.svn/ $OLDBLOG/wp-content/ $NEWBLOG/wp-content
• # this only is in older WP installs
  • $ rsync -vur --exclude=.svn/ $OLDBLOG/wp-images/ $NEWBLOG/wp-images
  • $ cp sarajane/.htaccess sarajane2
• Swap directories
  • $ mv sarajane sarajane0
  • $ mv sarajane2 sarajane
• Hit the upgrade link
  • http://localhost/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Atualhalpa stores settings in the database, so you don’t have to copy anything.

For three days now I have been trying to figure out how to account for payments to the Clinic via PayPal. The money goes into my personal PayPal account, and credits against money owed me for expenses, but I just don’t want to post the delta, I want to track what happened so the cash flow report is accurate. I tried a lot of accounts, but always ended up with the debits and credit balances fighting so the cash flow was backwards. Then I read this post who recommended that I treat the PayPal account like a bank account. I created “PayPal Bank”, receipts were deposits, and actual transfers into the account were transfers. Works like a charm.

So how do I account for donations of cash? Duh. Contribution Revenue.

It’s so nice when things work out. Now I can actually finish the books and work on my OWN taxes.

I have been wrestling with converting my old source code projects to a modern source control system and in some cases source control at all. At one point, I tried using a converter from CVS to Subversion, with lousy results. Fast-forward to today, where, armed with a new installation of Mercurial and some experience working with Mercurial transferring bin folder from machine to machine, I felt ready to give it another go.

First Google. I found that the latest Mercurial (TortoiseHg) has built-in support for conversions from many popular source control systems. The trick error was turning it on as by default the conversion plug-ins are not active. So I opened global options in TortoiseHg and activate the convert plug-in. this modifies the mercurial.ini/.hgrc file with the correct settings and then the command line hg convert returns conversion options.

The CVS conversion requires a checked out repository, not the source CVS files. So my first problem was checking out the repository which had not been refreshed from a recent disc crash. on the new machine I did not have CVS, so I had to upgrade Cygwin setup, then add the CVS command line client. I use after struggling with the Windows tortoise CVS checkout and the Windows CVS checkout, I open the seat Cygwin bash shell and performed the check out there.

First I was able to look in the D:\Data\cvsrepos\ dir and get the list of modules. The first was the dev module.

In bash:
$ export CVSROOT=:local:/cygdrive/d/data/cvsrepos
$ cvs co dev

In CMD:
> hg init
> hg convert -s cvs -d hg C:\cygwin\home\Dave\cvsco\dev
assuming destination dev-hg
initializing destination dev-hg repository
connecting to :local:/cygdrive/d/data/cvsrepos
scanning source...
collecting CVS rlog
100 CDCompare/FileItem.cpp
200 CDCompare/winsub/res/winsub.ico
300 PSA/PSAPrint/res/PSAPrint.ico
...
2953 log entries
creating changesets
100 This is work done on a branch from the original code. I think I was tryin...
200 update from p2.1.dll.all.zip
205 changeset entries
sorting...
converting...
204 Source for CDCompare project
203 Add CancelDlg module
...
C:\Users\Dave\cvsco> 1 [main] cvs 6128 C:\cygwin\bin\cvs.exe: *** fatal err
or - cmalloc would have returned NULL
Stack trace:
Frame Function Args
0022B4F8 6102749B (0022B4F8, 00000000, 00000000, 00000080)
0022B7E8 6102749B (61177B80, 00008000, 00000000, 61179977)
...
0022CC08 61116E6A (00000000, 00000000, 0022CD18, 610C01A5)
0022CC18 61004C8B (00000000, 10438204, 00000001, 0048C300)
End of stack trace (more stack frames may be present)


Let me just say aargh here…I seem to remember trying this before and getting the same result. I also remember firing up a Linux VM, copying the repository, checking out there, and then trying the conversion. Of course, I don’t know where the repository is so I think I might get to do it all over again. No wonder I never can finish anything. It’s so hard to get there from here.

Anyway, fire up ubuntu. Start small. Share the cvsrepos folder on the Windows side, connect via “Connect to Server…” on Ubuntu to the SMB by IP. Now what is the CVSROOT? When you attach to an SMB server, where is it mounted. Sensibly, in Mac OSX, /Volumes/sharename. Here, found by dragging link from FileBrowser onto terminal, and it coughed up a link.
$ export CVSROOT='/home/dave/.gvfs/cvsrepos on 192.168.0.140'
$ cvs co lib
$ hg convert -s cvs -d hg ./lib
$ cd lib-hg/
$ hg push http://provider.org/username/lib

Repeat five more times. I am now done with CVS.