[Box-Admins] source.squeak.org lockups

[Ken Causey]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:27 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> It was not responding today, though still running.
> 
> I disabled ~squeaksource/service/run (patching in a "false") and ran  
> it under VNC. It showed an error of not being able to connect to the  
> local SMTP port for sending out a message. Restarted the method, email  
> went out fine.
> 
> Since this happened in a separate squeak process I'm not sure why it  
> was not serving anymore.
> 
> Anyway, right now it's running under vnc again, need to remember to  
> switch to a daemon tonight ... or, can we set up to run the vnc  
> version as daemeon?
> 
> - Bert -

Thanks.

First, I have added your ssh key to the root account so you can use svc
directly in future, as well as any number of other things.

I tried in the past to run squeak under vnc via daemontools but the
complication is that as far as I can tell daemontools assumes that when
it starts something the overall process is represented by a single
parent process ID and that's just not the case here as vnc and squeak
are largely independent of each other.

Perhaps with your script-fu you can work out something.  I frankly
decided that it just wasn't worth the trouble to invest more time into
it.

I'm personally comfortable with running it under vnc without daemontools
for a while.  When Squeak crashes it locks up, doesn't exit, which is
the only way daemontools could help us in that case.  And it's not like
the server is being restarted regularly.

Ken 
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