[Systems] library.sugarlabs.org partition full

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks Bernie, and happy new year for all!

Gonzalo

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> +godiard who seems to have accessed this VM in the past.
>
> On 01/01/2016 09:06 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > Who is maintaining the library VM? Munin shows that the /boot partition
> > is full.
> >
> > We need to:
> >
> > 1. Correct the problem. It's probably too many installed kernels, and
> > there's a way to limit them automatically in Debian/Ubuntu
>
> Actually, I lied. That's only easy in Fedora. In Ubuntu, they're solving
> this for 16.04:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1357093
>
>
> So I logged onto library and uninstalled all the old kernels. It wasn't
> straightforward because apt had half-installed failed kernel upgrades
> which needed to be uninstalled before proceeding.
>
> It's extremely annoying that VMs, left on their own, would end up in an
> inconsistent state with /boot full and upgrades failing -- even security
> updates, dammit! What the hell were they thinking at Canonical???
>
> </rant>
>
> Well, happy new year to everyone!
>
>
> > 2. Add a page https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Machine/library with
> > sysadmin contacts (or shutdown the unmaintained VM)
> >
> > 3. Make Munin send alerts to the sysadmins.
>
> --
>  _ // Bernie Innocenti
>  \X/  http://codewiz.org
>



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Gonzalo Odiard

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