Re: sourceware.org downtime
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new disk into the array caused massive system corruption. We're back online now, running from backups that are less than 24 hours old. The RAID firmware has been updated and we've verified that this problem should not reoccur. Running from backups means that we've jumped back in time so if you've subscribed or unsubscribed from this list and now are either not getting or getting it, that's why. Also any package maintainers who released packages last Thursday (2005-02-03) or Wednesday (2005-02-02) should double check that their packages are still there. And now to bed. cgf For the record, I'd like to congratulate you and the other overseers/admins four your incredibly quick response time. You guys gals are obviously doing a great job, and you've proven it once again. Thanks! rlc
RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file (was Re: sourceware.org downtime)
I 2nd this request -- wanted to install some other packages but was blocked by the mirrors.txt download -- maybe it could use a cached copy of mirrors.txt to look at other mirror files -- i.e. cache mirrors.txt on the existing mirrors so if cygwin server is down, setup would use existing mirrors to avoid a single point of failure -- but still check mirrors.txt on cygwin.com if it was up. ?? -linda Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a completely unrelated to what I was doing problem. - Alexey.
Re: sourceware.org downtime
Would not it be great if Cygwin's setup did not just fail if mirrors.lst is unavailable and continued with just last server in the list? I tried to install Cygwin KDE, but setup was failing on a completely unrelated to what I was doing problem. - Alexey. -- / Alexey N. Solofnenko home: http://trelony.cjb.net/ /
Re: sourceware.org downtime
Didn't receive any down message here -- just noticed no server nor email-list activity. Dang -- I hate it when disks get screwed up! The bane of developers and users everywhere. Christopher Faylor wrote: If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down.
sourceware.org downtime
If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new disk into the array caused massive system corruption. We're back online now, running from backups that are less than 24 hours old. The RAID firmware has been updated and we've verified that this problem should not reoccur. Running from backups means that we've jumped back in time so if you've subscribed or unsubscribed from this list and now are either not getting or getting it, that's why. Also any package maintainers who released packages last Thursday (2005-02-03) or Wednesday (2005-02-02) should double check that their packages are still there. And now to bed. cgf
