Box-Admins January 2013

box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org

8 participants
18 discussions

Re: [Squeak 0007727]: Installer dosen't trim package names
by Frank Shearar 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

On 26 January 2013 22:41, <box-admins(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > KenCausey - 01-26-13 22:41 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm confused. Can't we just delete this issue? I mean if you just created > it and doing so was a mistake... ? Yes, I guess I _can_! Done! frank

1 0

squeak.org - next iteration
by Chris Cunnington 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

http://box3.squeak.org:8624 http://box3.squeak.org:8624/error This is the next iteration of the squeak.org image. It's getting closer to completion, I think. There is a nascent error message. (If anyone is wondering about attribution for that image, I looked at the site it came from [1] and I do not see how it is supposed to be attributed. AFAICT, the maker has not indicated who they are or how they want to be attributed.). The image is running on box3, not box4, because I get this lovely error: chriscunnington@squeak-box4:~$ ioLoadModule(/home/chriscunnington/coglinux/lib/squeak/4.0-2640/libcrypto.so): /home/chriscunnington/coglinux/lib/squeak/4.0-2640/libcrypto.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Something 32 is not playing well with something 64. Perhaps I need to install a 32-bit version of libcrypto.so on box4? In any event, this squeak.org image cannot be deployed on box4 behind a server until it has been decided what server (Apache or nginx) will be used. Once I am informed what the methodology for deploying an image on box4 has been decided upon, I'll resume working on this. As box3 is of limited capacity and doesn't need to be overburdened by this squeak.org image for a long period of time, I'll take this down tomorrow. Chris [1] http://www.officialpsds.com/Hole-in-Paper-3-PSD50497.html

5 19

contact@squeak.org
by Chris Cunnington 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

I figure I'll add a Contact page and it would be good if we could have a contact email. It doesn't make much sense to have emails to come to me personally. I can access the emails with dovecot (or whatever) and pull them down to Thunderbird. Other people can do the same. And, it's easy to change the person monitoring the emails instead of using one person's personal email. We have a vast capability for email as displayed by our comprehensive use of Mailman for our mailing lists. If we could make a contact email, that would be great. I can stipulate on the Contact page which requests should use the email and which should be directed to one of our many mailing lists. Thanks, Chris

2 2

Jeff Gonis is now a build.squeak.org user
by Frank Shearar 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Jeff's interested in answering "How fast is Squeak today?" letting us view trends on performance, not just on build times. He's going to be taking the Performance plugin for a spin. This plugin renders JMeter format output. frank

3 2

New Jenkins users
by Frank Shearar 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi, Edgar De Cleene's volunteered to run a build slave, either on a Linux machine or a Mac mini. To that end I've added him as a Jenkins user. I don't know if there are any particular restrictions to place on new folk joining, or what. I'm just mentioning now so that fellow admins are aware of a possible issue, particularly if we are flooded by volunteers keen to burn their clock cycles testing things. Hey, it might happen! frank

1 0

Long running build process on build.squeak.org?
by Ken Causey 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Roughly every day or two I login to box3 and check things out and check for package updates. With rare exception the system is quiet, I check for updates, apply any found, and move on. But today I find this (from ps auwx) jenkins 29126 99.7 2.3 1054380 24552 ? R 03:20 1000:40 /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/CogVM/tmp/lib/squeak/4.0-2636/squeak -vm-sound-null -vm-display-null /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/SqueakTrunkOnBleedingEdgeCog/target/TrunkImage.image /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/Sq As you can see this has used 1000+ minutes of CPU time (which is less than the actual running time). I've not seen this before on the server. Is it perhaps the result of a new build project and expected? Or an actual problem? Out of caution and since the system is already busy I haven't checked for package updates yet today (I think the last time I did so was Friday). Ken

3 11

Re: [Box-Admins] Long running build process on build.squeak.org?
by Ken Causey 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

On 01/14/2013 10:46 AM, Frank Shearar wrote: > I've just nice-ified (hopefully) all the vm-invoking processes. > Hopefully we can move the building of things off build.squeak.org and > onto Squeakers' machines! Hopefully we'll have another OS X volunteer, > once he's finished high priority money making issues. > > frank Great!

1 0

Re: [Box-Admins] Long running build process on build.squeak.org?
by Ken Causey 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

On 01/14/2013 05:53 AM, Frank Shearar wrote: > OK, turns out "there's a plugin for that" for Jenkins. The new > build-timeout plugin's set to an "elastic timeout" which means 150% of > the mean build time for a project and 10 minutes for a new project. > I've applied this to SqueakTrunk*, the most likely jobs to hang like > this. > > That still doesn't explain the burning smell around that last build, of course. > > frank Thanks I was giving some thought (not deep and devoid of any actual research) into possibly writing a program to periodically evaluate the processes and cull those clearly outside of the reasonable running time range. Regarding David's suggestion to use 'nice' to lower the process priority: At this point it's not really an issue but I think once we have the mailing lists running on the same system that this might be a very good idea. I suspect once it matters we will be reminded though. Ken

1 0

DNS Changes Upcoming/Deprecation of SqueakFoundation.org
by Ken Causey 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

We are soon (late January, early February) to shut down the old Hetzner hosted server (box2.squeakfoundation.org) which will be replaced with a couple of Gandi.net VPSs for our server infrastructure. One of the earlier steps in that is to setup DNS on the new systems and update our domain names so that they are listed as the primary DNS servers. In the process of this I believe one thing we would like to do is to, as much as reasonable, replace the use of squeakfoundation.org host names with squeak.org host names. For example lists.squeak.org rather than lists.squeakfoundation.org. It is not my intention to break anything, as much as I can I intend to have the old host names work as well as the new, but squeak.org host names will take primacy. A crucial part of this is that the root DNS name server records for the name servers for these domain names will need to be updated. On the one hand they will need to be updated to reflect the fact our DNS servers are moving and so the IPs are changing. Secondarily, consistent with the deprecation of the squeakfoundation.org domain name, the host names that are used for the DNS servers also need to be changed. To make this clearer the CURRENT situation is that At Network Solutions: Host name records exist for: a.ns.squeakfoundation.org (85.10.195.197) b.ns.squeakfoundation.org (69.72.148.198) The domain squeak.org is configured to use the hosts above for DNS servers. At Gandi: The domain squeakfoundation.org is configured to use a.ns.squeakfoundation.org, b.ns.squeakfoundation.org, and ns6.gandi.net for its DNS servers. I would like to have the above UPDATED in the following fashion: At Network Solutions: Update the domain squeakfoundation.org so that it uses a.ns.squeak.org (173.246.104.42) b.ns.squeak.org (173.246.101.237) for its DNS servers. And remove the root host name records for a.ns.squeakfoundation.org and b.ns.squeakfoundation.org entirely. At Gandi: Add root host name records for a.ns.squeak.org (173.246.104.42) b.ns.squeak.org (173.246.101.237) Update the squeak.org domain name so that it uses a.ns.squeak.org (173.246.104.42) b.ns.squeak.org (173.246.101.237) ns6.gandi.net (217.70.177.40) for its DNS servers. Update the setup for ns6.gandi.net so that it looks to a.ns.squeak.org as it's primary for squeak.org. I know this is a lot of information and I may not have made it as clear as it could be. If you think you may have some responsibility to do something regarding this but you aren't sure what, feel free to contact me and I will try to be more specific as to how you can help. There is no immediate rush but preferably all this should be completed by the end of January, 2013 in preparation for closing down the old server. Thanks! Ken Causey

1 0

Build.squeak.org and apache configuration
by Ken Causey 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

Since no one else piped up, for now I've setup build.squeak.org to point to Jenkins. We can always add something else or change this easily enough. I left squeakci.org as an alias. Of course if that domain name is allowed to expire we should remember to remove that. Since our servers tend to host a number of services under various hostnames we have found it useful to utilize the sites-available and sites-enabled directories under /etc/apache2 and avoid modifying the apache2.conf. The idea is to create a file in sites-available with the information necessary for a specific website. Then to actually make it work create a symlink in sites-enabled which points to the file in sites-available. Run sudo apache2ctl configtest to be sure that no mistake was made, then run sudo apache2ctl graceful to have apache reload it's configuration files and make the changes take effect. Something similar can be done with mods-available and mods-enabled once we find the need. One of the benefits of this system is that if there is a problem and one of the config files is suspected then you can temporarily remove it from the configuration by simply deleted the symlink and having apache reload the config. The configuration text remains and you can simply relink it when ready (and have apache reload again). I went ahead and modified the config on box3 and setup such a file for build.squeak.org. Ken

2 1

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Box-Admins January 2013