On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless the hardware is newer than I think it is, it likely is quite old. > > < 3 years > OLPC's hardware in the Media Lab kept flaking out to the point most (all?) > of it was eventually virtualized. > > How much would it cost to look into getting new hardware and/or using > someone's virtualization platform? > > Sugar seems to change their setup a bit more than OLPC, so it may be worth > investigating a scenario where resources could be spun up on demand. > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 06/18/2015 03:01 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >> > Any chance to check if disks are dying or there other reason for these >> > instabilities? >> >> Nothing odd from smartctl, and anyway the server would keep responding >> to pings even if both disks in the raid array were dead. >> >> +1 +2 +3 +... on the console the system completely freezes > So I'm thinking it's either a kernel bug, or unstable hardware. >> >> >> > Gonzalo >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > +systems@ >> > thanks bernie > > >> > I rebooted justice from the management console and it's now >> responding >> > to pings. >> > >> > I couldn't view the screen capture and I had no time to go to the >> Media >> > Lab to physically inspect the machine, so I don't understand the >> > root cause. >> > >> > As reported by Dogi, Justice seems to crash every 1-2 months. >> > more ~3 months > I suggest we try the following steps: >> > >> > 1. upgrade justice to Ubuntu 14.04 (like we did with freedom 1yr >> ago) >> > >> > +1 specially since justice compared to freedom has a long history of being upgraded (it has its roots on housetree server build which means it lives already since 2009 ... freedom got fresh installed ~2012/13) this is why after that we should just consider a total new install of justice, since my guess is that it is a software issue (justice always lasts 2+ months) why I think it is not a hardware issue is that this crashing is the case already for the last 2 years (I did 95% of all reboots) and started with our last system upgrade (something got upgraded to unstable) > > 2. if crashes continue, go to the server room and swap the drives >> with >> > freedom (which is our hot-swap server and doesn't currently run >> anything >> > critical) >> > >> > 3. Ask again the ML to give one of us physical access to the server >> > room. I work nearby, but I have trouble leaving during office hours >> on a >> > personal errand and if anything happens over a week-end we're in >> > trouble. >> > >> > Sebastian: you should at least get access to the management console. >> > Ping me on IRC and I'll send you the credentials on a secure >> channel. >> > >> > >> > On 06/18/2015 10:40 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: >> > > Hello Sugar Oversight Board, Sugar Labs Members, >> > > >> > > Our main production server virtual machine host is down and I >> can't >> > > reach it. >> > > We have several systems that depend on this infrastructure, >> including >> > > pootle server which was actively being used by translators of >> > Aymara and >> > > Awajun native languages. >> > > >> > > I respectfully request that you call on the phone whoever has >> physical >> > > access to this machine and we try to bring it back online. I think >> > this >> > > should be either Bernie Inocenti or Stefan Unterhauser. >> > my phonenumber is 617 767 2668 ... just call > > > >> > > Also, I would like to request for more volunteers from >> infrasctucure >> > > team to have virtual terminal access to these machines (not just >> ssh), >> > > or to put them in a proper collocation service where we can get >> some >> > > support. >> > > >> > > Thanks in advance for your help. >> > > Sebastian >> > > >> > > On 17/06/15 20:55, Sebastian Silva wrote: >> > >> Affected services: >> > >> translate.sugarlabs.org <http://translate.sugarlabs.org> >> > >> git.sugarlabs.org <http://git.sugarlabs.org> >> > >> packages.sugarlabs.org <http://packages.sugarlabs.org> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On 17/06/15 20:48, Sebastian Silva wrote: >> > >>> We can't reach it. >> > >>> >> > >>> Anybody with physical access to the machine please respond. >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> Regards, >> > >>> Sebastian >> > >> > -- >> > Bernie Innocenti >> > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team >> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Gonzalo Odiard >> > >> > SugarLabs - Software for children learning >> >> >> -- >> Bernie Innocenti >> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Systems mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems > >
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