DRAC5 Console Redirection Plug-in on Ubuntu 9.10
I'm in charge of some Dell servers, but after installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop I've been unable to get the Dell Remote Access Controller 5 console redirection plugin working. It just kept dying with the error message "
- Install firefox 3.0 on ubuntu 9.10
- Run firefox 3, connect to DRAC and install the plugin
- The plugin assumes you are using the default profile, which was wrong in my case. When I started it, nothing happened! To fix it, I installed ghex and edited the file $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/
/extensions/{975F5C72-BB6D-11DD-8236-0DA656D89593}/plugins/librac5vkvm.so. Search for '*.default' and replace it with an equally long wildcard that matches your profile directory. I replaced it with '????*.ff3'. After replacing it should look something like this: ~/.mozilla/firefox/????*.ff3/extensions/{975F5C72-BB6D-11DD-8236-0DA656D89593}/videoviewer
Now I finally have console access again!
Still not working for you? Remember to upgrade the RAC firmware version to at least 1.45 (09.01.16)
posted at: 02:42 | path: /2010/04 | permanent link to this entry
Installing Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
I got stuck needing an older version of firefox on Ubuntu to run a legacyi firefox plugin. It can also be useful for web developers needing to test their pages in older browser versions. This is how I installed Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.10:
- Download source:
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.18/source/firefox-3.0.18-source.tar.bz2
- Install necessary packages. From System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager, choose:
build-essential libx11-dev libdbus-1-dev libidl-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxt-dev pkg-config
(You may need more, I've installed other dev packages before) - Unpack the source archive, and compile:
tar xvfj firefox-3.0.18-source.tar.bz2 cd mozilla ./configure --prefix=$HOME/ff3 --enable-application=browser --disable-crashreporter make make install
- Before running normally, start firefox with the profile manager and create a new profile for the old version of firefox, eg 'ff3':
firefox -ProfileManager
- Install some necessary plugins (flash and java) where firefox will find them:
mkdir $HOME/.mozilla/plugins cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
- Run firefox 3.0 with your new profile:
$HOME/ff3/bin/firefox -P ff3
I tried the same with Firefox 2, but the build failed:
wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.9/source/firefox-2.0.0.9-source.tar.bz2 tar xvfj firefox-2.0.0.9-source.tar.bz2 cd mozilla ./configure --prefix=$HOME/ff2 --enable-application=browser --disable-crashreporter make (compilation failed on my computer)
posted at: 02:28 | path: /2010/04 | permanent link to this entry