[Systems] [Sugar-devel] Broken ASLO mirrors

[James Cameron]

Thanks, yes, the mirror is obviously out of date, I can tell, but why
does download.sugarlabs.org persist in suggesting it to (a) my IP in
Australia, and (b) localhost, itself?!

I've also changed the code I'm using to rely on disk cache
http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1XGkQF.txt
and copied the files from the filesystem on download.sugarlabs.org.

But still, I shouldn't have to do that.

I'd call up my friends at mirror at aarnet to fix their mirror, but if I
do that the problem will go away without Bernie fixing the redirect.  ;-)

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:48:52PM +1000, Sam P. wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I tried downloading the file from my mirror ([1]sgp1.old.aslo.cf) and it worked
> a charm.  The Arrnet http mirror is more than 1 month old!  Maybe change your
> code (just for this run) to use the address of my mirror instead of [2]
> download.sugarlabs.org so you don't get arrnet. Stats (now correct!) are here: 
> [3]http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org
> 
> +bernie, I thought mirrorbrain managed this stuff :(
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Aug 11, 2014 1:45 PM, "James Cameron" <[4]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 06:37:43PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>     > On 08/09/2014 06:26 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>     > > On 08/09/2014 06:16 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>     > >> (dropping a bunch of redundant addresses from the cc list)
>     > >>
>     > >> I noticed a strange pattern: all the rsync mirrors appear to be
>     broken,
>     > >> but in fact they're all responsive and up to date (the timestamp.txt
>     > >> file is fresh).
>     > >>
>     > >> Looks like Mirmon's health check over rsync is broken in some way.
>     > >
>     > > Ok, found the cause with strace:
>     > >
>     > > $ strace -f -e execve mirmon -v -get all -c /etc/mirmon.conf
>     > > [...]
>     > > [pid 11135] execve("/usr/bin/wget", ["/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O", "-",
>     > > "-T", "30", "-t", "1", "rsync://[5]mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub"...], [/*
>     40
>     > > vars */]Process 11124 detached
>     > >
>     > > It's using wget with an rsync url :-(
>     >
>     > Ok, looks like the default /etc/mirmon.conf shipped with the Ubuntu
>     > package doesn't support rsync. After reading the f...ine manual, I
>     > changed it like so:
>     >
>     >   probe /usr/bin/probe -q -t %TIMEOUT% %URL%timestamp.txt
>     >
>     > This seems to do the right thing. Mirrors with rsync probing urls have
>     > started to go green, and will go back online in a few hours (mirmon does
>     > not declare them healthy until it has seen them up for long enough).
> 
>     Thanks.  I still have a problem.
> 
>     In Australia, and on sunjammer, a wget of
>     [6]http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/4315/words-21.xo is being 302
>     redirected to [7]mirror.aarnet.net.au but fails with 404.
> 
>     Now, I'm not sure if Gonzalo's link for words-21 is correct:
>     [8]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Sugarlabs/0.102
> 
>     This is hindering olpc-os-builder.  ;-)  I don't yet know how to
>     workaround it short of duplicating Gonzalo's activity list page.
> 
>     --
>     James Cameron
>     [9]http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://sgp1.old.aslo.cf/
> [2] http://download.sugarlabs.org/
> [3] http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org/
> [4] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [5] http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub
> [6] http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/4315/words-21.xo
> [7] http://mirror.aarnet.net.au/
> [8] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Sugarlabs/0.102
> [9] http://quozl.linux.org.au/

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/