Later on the following week I went to visit a orthopedic doctor and found out I would need surgery for the bone to heal correctly. They wanted to do the surgery as soon as possible as it would get more difficult as the bone healed. We opted to have the surgery this past Monday as I had obligations on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday’s obligation was to head down to Union, SC and film some of the GNCC race going on. I’ve been doing this at every stop so far and posting the videos on offroadjunkies.com. Filming the race was a pain in the ass as I had to carry around the tripod and camera as I tried to get various spots shot of the race. Not the easiest thing I’ve had to do but I’m glad I pushed through the discomfort. The video I edited is good but definitely not one of my favorites but what can you do. Not every one of them can be a home run.

Here is the recap video of the 2010 Pirelli Big Buck GNCC. Enjoy.

I’ve been spending my time since then getting together with riders and attending races gathering footage for the project. I’m not quite done with filming but I have things in the pipeline and will be finished with filming soon.

The title of the upcoming DVD, being released through my production company Scratch N Sniff Productions, is Dirt Scootin’ Boogie. It will feature off-road riders Charkie Huegel, Mark Fortner, Chris Buzzelli, and others to be named at a later date. The release is scheduled for April 2010, hopefully for mid-April.

I put together a 3 minute preview of the DVD. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Dirt Scootin’ Boogie DVD Preview from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

The race itself had some awesome obstacles you don’t see very often. Besides the cold weather, I had a great time.

Jason Hooper over at digitaloffroad.com posted the video I edited of the weekend. Check out the link or the video embedded here:

http://www.digitaloffroad.com/2010/01/05/battle-of-atlanta-race-video/

Battle of Atlanta 8 Hour Team Race from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve made any updates and I won’t go into filling in the blanks right now. I wanted to share with you guys a video I put together from this past weekend’s Endurocross race down in Florence, SC. The race was Round 3 of the AMA Endurocross series. I’ve been spending this summer filming motocross riders from around this area for a TV I’m putting together. One of those riders is Charkie Huegel. He invited me to join him for his first attempt at the EX series. I got some great footage and made a short little video.

Check it out!

2009 AMA Endurocross Florence, SC from Scratch N Sniff Productions on Vimeo.

Also check out the podcast I did with Charkie. Link

Nothing much going on with me. I’m still trying to kickstart some things with myself and figure out my own workflow for getting things done. It’s coming along slowly but that’s better than nothing. I picked up a Moleskin and started keeping a To-Do list of the simplest things. You know like “Wipe butt after going #2″ or “Remember to pee in the shower while water is running”. Nothing is more embarassing than your wife wondering why there’s dried yellow spots in the bath tube. The list has been going awesome! Totally awesome.

What else? What else?

In early March I went to the orientation meeting for Raleigh’s public access station, RTN. I met this guy Tony there who’s in the process of trying to get some comic and animations off the ground. I told him about some of the stuff I’ve done and we hit it off. We’re now working on some projects together, one of them being a short horror film called Mary. I’ll definitely be posting more about the stuff we’re doing. But that’s pretty much it for now.

There are a few other things I want to post about but think they all deserve their own posts. I’ll get around to those soon…maybe sometime this year. Hopefully. Some of the things I want to post about: Atlanta Supercross, Jax Supercross, Canon XH-1A, Suzuki RM-250 Project, Editing, Shooting Guns, Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (Yes it is).

Something to look forward to.

The biggest change is the site design. I got tired of looking at the maroon vomit of the last theme. Since I’m not really in the mood to work on a theme from the ground up I decided to use one from WooThemes. I put together a simple logo and poof…finished. Nice and simple I think.

The other change was getting rid of Entrecard. For the past couple weeks my interest in the application has been dying off. As much as I like having people reading the random crap that comes out of my mind, I’m don’t want to over load the site with ads. This isn’t something I’m trying to make money at, it would be nice but still isn’t my goal. Plus I don’t think there is much money to make from ads on a diarrhea posting. Then came the recent Entrecard announcement and the stuff that played out on their forums.  Graham, founder of Entrecard, has proven time and time again the kind of person he is. To put it in the nicest words I know how, the guy is a douche bag. No matter what positive things I was getting out of Entrecard,  I’m not going to support and promote a tool (referring to Graham the tool, not the Entrecard tool) like that.  I fully intend to continue supporting the blogs and friends I’ve made through the service. Hopefully, you will continue reading this blog.

Those are the major changes with the site. I did make some other smalls things but nothing worth mentioning.

Ooh ooh ooh yeah

There isn’t much going on in my little world. I’ve been trying to climb out of this rut that I got myself into, only the harder I try the deeper I get. What I’m finding is that once you let negativity into your thought process it becomes a cancer and takes over. From that point on no matter how hard you try, the negativity will corner you in the shower and have it’s way with you. I refuse to let negativity corn hole me.

I’ve developed a nice little tool (Ha! little…tool) that helps me fight off the negative thoughts. When I feel them coming I stop what I’m doing and scream “I am no longer your bitch anymore. I…I say who gets to corn hole me. Not you, you bastard!”. This helps me push those feelings away and it invites the positive thoughts in.

Seriously, thanks to some medication I’m able to see some light at the end of the tunnel. To say it’s been a nice departure from the normal doom and gloom would be an understatement. With the fog lifting, I’ve been able to get an idea where I want to be in the grand scheme of things…professionally speaking (typing) that is. I won’t go into what I want to do right now. I tend to lose some steam on these types of things when I let them out of my head too soon. Hopefully, I will be able to stay focused on the goals and actually achieve them. Man, having a sense of achievement would be an awesome feeling, one that I haven’t felt in awhile. Bring it on!

There are some things I’ve been meaning to post about and I will get those done this week.

Well, I have a client that is having me build them a motorcycle and I ran into some problems on the tank today. I thought that since I was having to repair the tank that I would share a little and possibly help someone else out. First, let me apologize for the blury pics as everything was taken with my cell phone. The tank is an old banana wassel. I do not know if they repop these but even if one could be found it would need to have the tunnel modified for the frame that is being used. Here is a pic of what I started with, looks like a clean vintage tank.

Check out the thread for more information and ton more pictures.

If I had to guess why the lack of support for the bikes I would have to say, it’s the lack of factory and aftermarket parts. Lack of parts usually means fabrication is needed or shelling out cash for someone else to do the work.

The cool thing is, when you do find a CM build on the web, because of the lack of parts, these people are forced to use their imagination. They are forced to come up with their own solutions and not just opening a catalog and busting out the credit card. So when I come across a build I get pretty pumped and try to follow it from start to finish.

Scotty Dont’s CM400E build over at the MassDriven forums, is one of the build I’ve been following. He took a 1980 Honda CM400E and created a nice “Cafe/Bobber Bastard Child”.

Head over to the massdriven forums to check out the build from start to finish.

Here is the command I ran and the failure.

idsicrt -I idsinst -e password4seed -p 389 -s 636 -a 3538 -c 3539 -l /home/idsinst -t idsinst

GLPICR020I A new directory server instance 'idsinst' will be created.
GLPICR057I The directory server instance will be created at: '/home/idsinst'.
GLPICR013I The directory server instance's port will be set to '389'.
GLPICR014I The directory server instance's secure port will be set to '636'.
GLPICR015I The directory instance's administration server port will be set to '3538'.
GLPICR016I The directory instance's administration server secure port will be set to '3539'.
GLPICR019I The description will be set to: 'IBM Tivoli Directory Server Instance V6.1'.
GLPICR021I Database instance 'idsinst' will be configured.

Do you want to....
(1) Continue with the above actions, or
(2) Exit without making any changes:1

GLPICR028I Creating directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR025I Registering directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR026I Registered directory server instance: : 'idsinst'.
GLPICR049I Creating directories for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR050I Created directories for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR043I Creating key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR044I Created key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR040I Creating configuration file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR041I Created configuration file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR034I Creating schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR035I Created schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR037I Creating log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR038I Created log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR088I Configuring log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR089I Configured log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR085I Configuring schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR086I Configured schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR073I Configuring ports and IP addresses for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR074I Configured ports and IP addresses for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR077I Configuring key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR078I Configured key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR046I Creating profile scripts for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR047I Created profile scripts for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR103I Adding instance information to the .profile file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR104I Added instance information to the .profile file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR069I Adding entry to /etc/inittab for the administration server for directory instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR070I Added entry to /etc/inittab for the administration server for directory instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR118I Creating runtime executable for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR119I Created runtime executable for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL074I Starting admin daemon instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL075I Started admin daemon instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPICR029I Created directory server instance: : 'idsinst'.
GLPICR031I Adding database instance 'idsinst' to directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL017I Cataloging database instance node: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL019E Failed to catalog database instance node: 'idsinst'. The failure might have occurred because the system was not set up correctly before using the tool.
GLPICR033E Failed to add database instance 'idsinst' to directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP002I Deleting directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL077I Stopping admin daemon instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPCTL078I Stopped admin daemon instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP072I Deleting the runtime executable for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP073I Deleted the runtime executable for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP035I Removing entry from /etc/inittab for Admin Daemon Instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP036I Removed entry from /etc/inittab for Admin Daemon Instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP057I Removing instance information from the .profile file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP058I Removed instance information from the .profile file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP020I Deleting profile scripts for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP021I Deleted profile scripts for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP011I Deleting log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP012I Deleted log files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP008I Deleting schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP009I Deleted schema files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP014I Deleting configuration file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP015I Deleted configuration file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP017I Deleting key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP018I Deleted key stash files for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP077I Deleting the ldapdb.properties file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP075I Deleted the ldapdb.properties file for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP023I Deleting directories for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP024I Deleted directories for directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP039I Unregistering directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP040I Unregistered directory server instance: 'idsinst'.
GLPIDP003I Deleted directory server instance: : 'idsinst'.
GLPICR024W The program did not complete successfully. View earlier error messages for information about the exact error.

In order to get more information about the real cause of the failure, I would need to run an ASCII trace of the idsicrt. This will allow me to see the processes interaction with the operating system. In these interactions I should be able to see which step is failing and a more details error message.

Running an ASCII trace

1. Prior to running the idsicrt debug, I need to enable ldtrc. This is what turns on tracing for the processes.

ldtrc on

2. Now I need to recreate the error. I re-run the idsicrt with the -d and -b flags.

idsicrt -I idsinst -e password4seed -p 389 -s 636 -a 3538 -c 3539 -l /home/idsinst -t idsinst -d 65535 -b /tmp/idsicrt.out

The -d 65535 turns on the debug and will provide me the most detailed information about the error.

The -b /tmp/idsicrt.out is telling the command where I want the detailed output written to. In this case I’m writing the log to /tmp/idsicrt.out.

3. Turn off tracing

ldtrc off

Note: Not turning this off can cause problems with the operation of your ldap server.

Reviewing the Trace Output

Reviewing the trace file for the first time can be overwhelming, as it contains a lot of information. What I would suggest is searching the file for the error message. In my case the error message is ‘GLPCTL019E Failed to catalog database instance node: ‘idsinst’. The failure might have occurred because the system was not set up correctly before using the tool.’ After locating the error, work your way up in the trace. The cause of the failure should be close by.

In my case, the real error message is only 10 lines above the generic message.

GLPCTL017I Cataloging database instance node: 'idsinst'.
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 vPrintMessage: catid=29, level=1, num=17.
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 do_iconv_open: local_codepage=NULL
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 xlate_utf8_to_localcp: inlen=8
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 xlate_utf8_to_localcp: rc=0
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 checkSQLStatus: sclca->sqlcode=-1092 buff=[SQL1092N  "ROOT    " does not have the authority to perform the requested
command.
]
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 catalogInstanceNode: sqlectnd() failed with rc=0 and sqlca.sqlcode=-1092.
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 ldap_getenv: LDAP_DEBUG_TIME=NULL
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 vPrintMessage: catid=29, level=1, num=19.
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 getmessage: msgnum=19 catid=29
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 getmessage: msgnum=19, catid=29, catalog_only=TRUE
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 do_iconv_open: local_codepage=NULL
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 xlate_utf8_to_localcp: inlen=8
053:19:41:42 T1 K12718279 xlate_utf8_to_localcp: rc=0
GLPCTL019E Failed to catalog database instance node: 'idsinst'. The failure might have occurred because the system was not set up correctly before using the tool.

Now, I have a error message that points me in a better direction. I can see from the SQL1092N that their is a permission problem somewhere.

Reviewing the documentation for IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.1, I find that the ‘root’ user is required to be a member of the SYSADM group for the DB2 instance. This is because of the way the idsicrt and idsxinst tools create the DB2 instance.

After I added the root user to the SYSADM group for the instance the idsicrt successfully create my instance. From that point I was able to continue configuring the ITDS environment I was setting up.