[Systems] [Sugar-devel] Broken ASLO mirrors

[Bernie Innocenti]

+rralcala

On 08/11/2014 03:48 AM, Sam P. wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> I tried downloading the file from my mirror (sgp1.old.aslo.cf
> <http://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 download.sugarlabs.org
> <http://download.sugarlabs.org> so you don't get arrnet. Stats (now
> correct!) are here: http://mirrors.sugarlabs.org
> 
> +bernie, I thought mirrorbrain managed this stuff :(

I thought so too!

Roberto, since you're now familiar with mirrorbrain, would you mind
checking what's going on? If it's not easy to figure out, just disable
the outdated mirror.


> Sam
> 
> On Aug 11, 2014 1:45 PM, "James Cameron" <quozl at laptop.org
> <mailto: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://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub
>     <http://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
>     http://download.sugarlabs.org/activities/4315/words-21.xo is being 302
>     redirected to mirror.aarnet.net.au <http://mirror.aarnet.net.au> but
>     fails with 404.
> 
>     Now, I'm not sure if Gonzalo's link for words-21 is correct:
>     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
>     http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 


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