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Tags: Lotus Notes Lotus Notes 8.5.3
After upgrading a client from 8.5.2FP3 to 8.5.3 and accessing the mailfile on an 8.5 server I'm getting the following error:



After clicking ok, the miniview shows: "Part of this application did not start correctly due to an open dialog box. Please close the dialog box and refresh this section to re-open the application"


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Posted by Ninke Westra At 1:24 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: Lotus Domino Traveler
One of the great things about Lotus Domino has been that it is so dead easy to move the data directory to another location by just updating the references in the server's notes.ini file.

However, when moving the data directory on a Lotus Notes Traveler server this is not enough.

Besides updating the notes.ini file you will also need to update the path reference that can be found near the end of the <dominodatadirectory>\traveler\cfg\NTSConfig.xml file

If you don't you might run into a number of errors on the server console (at least I did at a customer)

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Posted by Ninke Westra At 12:51 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: cbrclub
For today the Dutch Honda CBR Club had planned a group ride through the province called Drente, but because of expected sub-zero temperatures (around 32F for those who are metric-challenged), the ride got cancelled.

But since I didn't have anything better to do I decided to go anyway.

The start and finish of the ride was at the entrance of the Dutch TT race track in Assen.


Unfortunately it was closed, must've been too cold.

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Posted by Ninke Westra At 1:26 AM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (6)

Tags: Lotus Notes Ubuntu 8.5.2 FP1
I thought I'd quickly upgrade my Lotus Notes 8.5.2 client on Ubuntu Linux before going to bed, boy was I wrong.

dpkg: error processing ibm_lotus_notes_fixpack-8.5.2.i586.deb (--install):
 parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'ibm-lotus-notes-fixpack':
 error in Version string '8.5.2-20101215.1023_FP1': invalid character in revision number
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ibm_lotus_notes_fixpack-8.5.2.i586.deb

Turns out that. sometime between Ubuntu 8.x and the current 10.x version, underscores have become illegal characters according to Ubuntu's package manager.


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Posted by Ninke Westra At 3:21 AM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: traffic snow
It's snowing today, actually right now it's around lunch time and the screenshot from (http://route.tomtom.com) shows that a big part of the neverlands has essentially turned into a parking lot:



This morning when I was on my way to the office it had been snowing a little (<1") and it already took me an hour to get to the highway that runs around Amsterdam, so I decided to turn around and work from home instead.

After about a decade of mild winters with hardly any snow to speak of (especially in the western, most heavily populated part), the majority of dutch drivers can't deal with even the smallest amounts of snow and slow to a crawl, even the ones with winter/snow tires.

At the moment it's been steadily snowing for a few hours which has the above result on traffic.
By the time people head home it's probably going to be a lot worse.

For those stuck in it be careful

Posted by Ninke Westra At 2:03 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: roadtrip motorcycle Eifel Mosel Austria Italy Germany Stelvio Alps
Back in april I took my (t)rusty old 1990 Honda CBR600F on a (little) roadtrip which took me through Germany, France, Austria and Italy in four days, adding up to around 2700 km.

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Posted by Ninke Westra At 1:00 AM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 8.5.1 Lotus Domino 8.5 Directory
I recently ran into a nasty surprise in an agent I wrote ages ago that uses the Servers\Mail Users view in the Domino directory to find users per server, which performs some checks against the mail database.
The agent loops through the entries, using the NotesViewEntry.ColumnValues instead of accessing the underlying document, in the view which worked fine all the way up to Domino 8.5.0

After upgrading the Administration server to 8.5.1 the agent started reporting problems with the database owner, ACL etc.

Turned out that the Name column of the view has been changed from displaying the user name in Abbreviated format to 'Lastname, Firstname'.

So if you've ever used this view in any of your code, check to see if this change has consequences, and while you're at it also check for changes to any of the other views in the Domino directory that might have changed. I know I will

Oh and what did I learn from this? - When writing code that relies on information from a system database, add an additional view (with the prohibit design refresh ... property set of course)

Posted by Ninke Westra At 3:32 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Lotus Domino Notes 8.5.1 VMWare Server 2.0.2 64 bit Linux Ubuntu Karmic
Sofar my ride with Karmic hasn't been all smooth.

I've upgraded my server from Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and recently to 9.10 Server (Karmic) on 64 bit and encountered a few issues, and not just with Domino 8.5.1 - and yes I know this is not an IBM supported configuration

After the upgrade my Domino server came up without a problem but I noticed an error message from the full text indexer about not being able to find libstdc++.so.5
This library was replaced by the upgrade by libstdc++.so.6 - so I ended up pulling a copy from a previous release and adding that to /usr/lib32

Other than that sofar I haven't found any problems with Domino.

Daniel Nashed's SpamGeek also just continues to do it's job

I also have 64 bit VMWare Server 2.0.2 running on this server and after the upgrade the vmware modules refused to build, fortunately I found a fix here:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html

I have a Windows 2003 Server VMWare guest that started life as a physical box that I converted to a VM sometime last year that never had any problems but ever since the upgrade (and subsequent patch) has a tendency to die under high I/O loads. VMWare kills it (Worker#18| Caught signal 6).

After that, it was time for my laptop ...


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Posted by Ninke Westra At 12:20 AM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: Lotus Domino 8.5.1 CA Process
Ran into this one the other day while making a small change to my CA based certifiers:

Cannot locate user certificate. Make sure server contains your certificate for encryption

Turs out that when your location document is configured with your mail file location as Local, you will not be able to make any changes to notes and/or internet certifiers inside the CA Process.

See also KB #1168945

Why it requires the location of the mailfile to be 'On Server' instead of just checking the home server as configured in the location document (or the server you're actually administrating) is beyond me though.

Posted by Ninke Westra At 10:53 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Lotus Notes 8.5.1
When I started my Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Standard client this morning instead of showing me my workspace it didn't get beyond the empty framework:

No errors, my task bar only showed one Lotus Notes item so it wasn't me double-clicking the quicklaunch icon (for a change)

So I was already getting annoyed even before finishing my first cup of tea.
When I pressed Alt-Tab to cycle to switch to an open commandline window I noticed it showed TWO Lotus Notes icons, one being the familiar prompt regarding one or more missed alarms.

To my surprise clicking the ok/yes button launched the basic client in a separate window.

Opening my mailbox from within the Basic client opens it up in ...
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Posted by Ninke Westra At 12:19 PM Location Neverlands | Permalink | Comments (0)