Hi, this is the eighth weekly report on my Summer of Code project 'Provide some metrics in Debile'[1].
(Previous report: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2014-July/002175.html) I didn't get much work done last WE and the beginning of the week because of difficulties with my travel arrangements for the Debconf. coccinelle ---------- I've had some difficulties with the coccinelle check. I managed to narrow down the problem, but there's still work to do. I'll look into that with Matthieu once we've got the rebuild with existing checks running. debile blade servers - debian installer's preseed ------------------------------------------------- Once it became apparent making coccinelle work would not be trivial, Sylvestre encouraged me to focus on (finally) lauchning the full rebuild on debile.debian.net. However, because two blade servers were not responsive, I wanted to reinstall them. With the PXE/preseed setup in place, it should have been trivial, but I've run into one problem after another. On the first try, the install seemed to stop after the partitioning step, but all I could do to monitor it was to watch apt-cacher-ng's log on ursae to see what packages had been downloaded. After some looking around, I added a few commands to the preseed, allowing to access the installer console over ssh[2]. The installer could not load the lvm-mod kernel module. Updating the installer in the PXE fixed that somehow, but the partioning still failed. I haven't been able to understand what exactly was wrong, but I decided to use a simple partioning scheme without LVM, but it still failed because of the existing LVM setup. 15 hours or so of hair pulling later, while I was reviewing the call for help I was about to send to [email protected], I finally managed to reinstall the blade servers reliably. debile-slave gpg configuration ------------------------------ I am now struggling with making the import of gpg keys on the fresh debile-slave installs: the gpg keyring is empty, but the tool doing the import (debile-slave-import-cred[3]) is not reporting any error. At the moment, I have no idea what is going wrong. Thanks for reading, ------- Clément [1] [https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/StudentApplications/ClementSchreiner] [2] [https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetworkConsole] [3] [http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-debile/debile.git;a=blob;f=contrib/debian/debile-slave-import-cred;h=a8f2dd5cc8da40a93aadad8a96cbe33db74cdc88;hb=HEAD] _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
