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Base64-encoding data is found in places all over the IT world and in home users' systems as well. Being able to encode data in Java or ECMAScript/JavaScript can be valuable when those are the languages available to you. This sample shows how to convert from one format to another and eventually encode data for use within a directory like eDirectory.

Geoff Carman takes a look at some of the error codes he has had for the eDirectory driver for Identity Manager and explains what happened and how to fix them.

Have you ever been coding Java and suddenly wanted to do something using loosely-typed variables or worked out an issue with a little less Java-ness? Have you ever wanted to take advantage of the familiarity people have with some languages (ECMAScript/JavaScript) while still using something that is not a web browser as an environment? Have you ever wanted to debug your JavaScript without refreshing a web page and your cache that just won't seem to ever refresh properly for you? This and more will be covered today with practical examples in both the Novell Identity Manager (IDM) and Novell Sentinel applications plus any other Java-based applications that you may have around your own environment.

My boss recently ran into this inexplicable error, and I looked at it at the time, and we both threw our hands up in the air and decided, we will pretty much have to live with it, since it was mostly harmless (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy's description of planet Earth).
Recently I revisited the problem, and was in a more stubborn mind set and was able to track it down. Here's the scoop.

After installing updates on SLES/OES servers we have had issues where the server doesn't boot. The console comes to:
"No root device found; exiting to /bin/sh
sh: "

This is because the kernel was upgraded and a new initrd was created but it was not created with EVMS support (for some reason, not sure why, wonder when Novell/SUSE is going to fix this??).

This article explains how we worked around that.

Upgrading DCHP from Novell RPMs to isc.org downloads.