Mike Gerdts wrote:
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Anon Y Mous<[email protected]> wrote:
What is? This message makes no sense on the mail list.
Ian, I take it that you only use Solaris 10 and Solaris Express and don't ever
use Indiana, ipkg zones or IPS package management? The main OpenSolaris IPS
repository has been going down repeatedly for over two days now. Some people
who have been running OpenSolaris on their servers have not been able to deploy
a new ipkg zone in over 48 hours and all their work has been forced to grind to
a halt.
Nobody who works at Sun has said anything about what might be causing the
problem. All the people who use ipkg zones on OpenSolaris are basically now
S.O.L. because every time they try to deploy a new ipkg zone, the new ipkg zone
automatically tries to download packages from the Sun repository and the
download times out because the IPS repository is down and consequently the zone
won't deploy.
There are already three or four threads about this in the "help" list at
opensolaris.org (see link below):
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=107149&tstart=0
but nobody is responding to the cries for help (just dead air time and crickets
chirping). So we tried moving the thread to the discuss list in the hope that
someone knowledgeable would see the multiple pleas for help and respond.
Yesterday I received a reply from Shawn Walker. Not terribly
informative, but at least it seems as though it is being worked.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-July/014927.html
A while later, there was a putback to the pkg source code repository
that looks like it may be related.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2009-July/014937.html
Recently, a bug in a python library we depend on was discovered
(cherrypy), and so a backported version of a fix the cherrypy team
developed was applied in hopes of eliminating timeout errors seen with
the new transport system.
However, any timeout errors you've seen before today are likely not
directly related to the patch we applied. The patch that was applied
was strictly so that HTTP/1.1 pipelining would work correctly with the
new transport system that is coming with the next /dev release.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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