<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Unless the hardware is newer than I think it is, it likely is quite old. </div>OLPC's hardware in the Media Lab kept flaking out to the point most (all?) of it was eventually virtualized. </div>How much would it cost to look into getting new hardware and/or using someone's virtualization platform? </div>Sugar seems to change their setup a bit more than OLPC, so it may be worth investigating a scenario where resources could be spun up on demand. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 06/18/2015 03:01 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Any chance to check if disks are dying or there other reason for these > instabilities? Nothing odd from smartctl, and anyway the server would keep responding to pings even if both disks in the raid array were dead. So I'm thinking it's either a kernel bug, or unstable hardware. > Gonzalo > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a> <div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a>>> wrote: > > +systems@ > > I rebooted justice from the management console and it's now responding > to pings. > > I couldn't view the screen capture and I had no time to go to the Media > Lab to physically inspect the machine, so I don't understand the > root cause. > > As reported by Dogi, Justice seems to crash every 1-2 months. I suggest > we try the following steps: > > 1. upgrade justice to Ubuntu 14.04 (like we did with freedom 1yr ago) > > 2. if crashes continue, go to the server room and swap the drives with > freedom (which is our hot-swap server and doesn't currently run anything > critical) > > 3. Ask again the ML to give one of us physical access to the server > room. I work nearby, but I have trouble leaving during office hours on a > personal errand and if anything happens over a week-end we're in > trouble. > > Sebastian: you should at least get access to the management console. > Ping me on IRC and I'll send you the credentials on a secure channel. > > > On 06/18/2015 10:40 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > Hello Sugar Oversight Board, Sugar Labs Members, > > > > Our main production server virtual machine host is down and I can't > > reach it. > > We have several systems that depend on this infrastructure, including > > pootle server which was actively being used by translators of > Aymara and > > Awajun native languages. > > > > I respectfully request that you call on the phone whoever has physical > > access to this machine and we try to bring it back online. I think > this > > should be either Bernie Inocenti or Stefan Unterhauser. > > > > Also, I would like to request for more volunteers from infrasctucure > > team to have virtual terminal access to these machines (not just ssh), > > or to put them in a proper collocation service where we can get some > > support. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Sebastian > > > > On 17/06/15 20:55, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >> Affected services: </div></div>> >> <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a> <<a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org</a>> > >> <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">git.sugarlabs.org</a> <<a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org</a>> > >> <a href="http://packages.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">packages.sugarlabs.org</a> <<a href="http://packages.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://packages.sugarlabs.org</a>> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 17/06/15 20:48, Sebastian Silva wrote: > >>> We can't reach it. > >>> > >>> Anybody with physical access to the machine please respond. > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Sebastian > > -- > Bernie Innocenti > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team</a> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > > > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > SugarLabs - Software for children learning -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>