infrastructure December 2010

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delta rpm compose debugging change
by Kevin Fenzi 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Greetings. Of late openoffice.org and a few other packages have been not generating delta rpms in pushes. ;( They error with: Error genDeltaRPM for chunkd: exitcode was 256 - Reported Error: bad cpio archive But looking later at both rpms, things seem fine. ;( I've talked with jdieter and we would like to add in more debugging: <jdieter> nirik: We're still having the "bad cpio archive" with openoffice.org updates <jdieter> I have a patched version of deltarpm available at: http://www.lesloueizeh.com/jdieter/deltarpm-3.6-0.1.20101230git.fc14.src.rpm <jdieter> If run with -vv, it will report old rpm, new rpm, and tell us what the actual first six bytes of what's actually in the rpm <jdieter> vs the 070701 that it's supposed to be <jdieter> I don't have an el6 system, so it will have to be rebuilt for releng2 <jdieter> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/deltarpms.py needs to modified as well <jdieter> The line with "makedeltarpm -v" needs to be changed to "makedeltarpm -vv" epel5 scratch build at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2694315 (releng02 is rhel5). If I can get enough +'s I'd be happy to put this in place whenever. Otherwise we can wait until next week after the freeze. Thoughts? Comments? Other ideas? kevin

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Introducing myself.
by thiago＠ticursos.net 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hello, folks. My name is Thiago Glauco from Brazil/gmt -3. I would like to help you from Fedora Project. I know you are most of time at IRC but I'm following the how-to of yours, which recommends an introduction at this list, so: I've good skills on System administration, network management and like to write Perl applications for Network and Server monitoring. I can say I really love Perl and I give classes about it in Brazil. Actually my wish to join this wonder group is a little selfish. I like to preserve and improve my skills on server administration because I'm working hardly with cisco and enterasys devices nowadays. My contributions should be near to 16 hours a month. Oh, I also know a little about C programing. Regards.

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Projects for after break (eg next year.)
by Stephen John Smoogen 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Ok this mainly meant as a going through the half-hour generated emails from puppet it looks like the following need to be dealt with: Todo list pkgs01 needs mod_evasive https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2517 ppcXX boxes have selinux issue (magic issue) https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2530 db03 needs to be updated to postgresql84 https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2531 *.stg. servers need mounts of netapp shares or alternate ones. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2532 After that there are a couple of issues where we have our 'special' rpm installed on EL5 boxes (bapp01/app01.stg) which seems to generate some items. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren

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Self Introduction for joining sysadmin-test, sysadmin-hosted and sysadmin-web
by PRABIN DATTA 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi! I am Prabin Kumar Datta, a Final Year IT Student of Govt. College Of Engg. And Ceramic Tech, Belaghata. Currently, I am staying at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. I am an Active member of fedora Projects: 1. web 2. docs 3. triggers 4. freemedia 5. design-team 6. package-review Now, I am thinking to work more and increase my participation work. I LIKE TO JOIN sysadmin-test, sysadmin-hosted and sysadmin-web. Also, this will help to continue my practice with what I have learn in RHCE. My Global Certificate * SCJP. * DB2 9(Database Associate). * Cisco Networking Academy Program(WEBEL informatics kolkata) + Cisco Certified Network Associate. * RHCE training. My Projects * .Net (SAP) * XHTML (IBM). * PHP (WEBEL) * Advance Java (HCL CDC). * JAVA + Advance Java + TDS + DB2 + WBS (IBM- TGMC) Hardware * Detail Study Of Motherboard and basic Networking. Programming * Infosys Aspiration zonal level winner. Weakness: frankly saying I have programming knowledge which I have learned from college, training institute and programming contest. But I have always tried to learn everything sincerely. Daily Contribution: Also, I believe I can work 18hours each week on fedora project. I hope you will be kind enough to grant my request. Thank You. Have A Nice Day -- by Prabin Kumar Datta prabindatta(a)fedoraproject.com IRC: prabindatta gtalk: prabindatta GPG key: pub 2048R/1E0CFA36 2010-11-06 uid PRABIN KUMAR DATTA <linux.n.pkd(a)gmail.com> sub 2048R/AF311EF8 2010-11-06

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Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC
by Ricky Zhou 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Outage: blogs.fedoraproject.org - 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2010-12-21 00:00 UTC. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-12-21 00:00 UTC' Reason for outage: We are preemptively taking Fedora Blogs down due to known security issues in our current version of wordpress, but there is no evidence that it has has actually been exploited. Affected Services: Fedora Blogs - http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/ Unaffected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2527 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage.

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Slush break requested -- Upgrade gitolite package on pkgs01 (pkgs.fedoraproject.org)
by Jesse Keating 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Current situation: pkgs01 was built partially by puppet and partially by hand. We never went through the step of completely rebuilding pkgs01 via puppet. Recently I (re)discovered that the gitolite package has locally modified files (4 of them: /usr/bin/gl-auth-command, /usr/bin/gl-compile-conf, /usr/share/gitolite/hooks/common/update, /usr/share/perl5/gitolite.pm). Also most unfortunately it appears I did not keep patch files around, rather I directly modified files while attempting to make things work. Shame on me :( I have spent the last few days working on an updated package for gitolite for EL6, to go from 1.5.3 to 1.5.7. Part of this motivation was to get a new feature for error messages when attempting to clone a repo that doesn't exist, and the other part is to have proper upstream support for our setup, eliminating the need to locally modify files. I have tested the new package on pkgs01.stg.phx2 and adjusted the gitolite.rc file accordingly (changed in puppet stg branch). I've tested that expected access works, and expected denials work as well. I'm confident that the new package + changes from puppet will work in production. I'd like to get pkgs01 production to a state where it can be built entirely from puppet and function correctly. There are a couple different options at this point: A) Upgrade gitolite package and cherry-pick gitolite.rc changes from stg in puppet. B) rebuild existing gitolite package with local modifications done as patches and make available in the infrastructure repo (and upgrade the package in production) C) use puppet hotfix module to stash the modified files so that puppet puts them in place. I'm requesting A, and offering to be on-call for this system during the break, should something go wrong. More data: The changes in gitolite between 1.5.3 and 1.5.7 largely don't effect us. The biggest change that does is proper upstream support for our setup, where we don't have gitolite manage ssh files or repo creations. Our ACL generation script does not need to change. Diff of gitolite.rc changes: diff --git a/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/gitolite.rc b/modules/gitolite/files index 4af1be8..03149e3 100644 --- a/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/gitolite.rc +++ b/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/gitolite.rc @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ $GIT_PATH=""; $GL_BIG_CONFIG = 1; $GL_NO_DAEMON_NO_GITWEB = 1; +$GL_NO_CREATE_REPOS = 1; +$GL_NO_SETUP_AUTHKEYS = 1; + The upstream author of gitolite will be available during the break should we have any emergency issues. Summary: I'm looking for a couple +1s to attempt option A of upgrading gitolite and merging the gitolite.rc change into production. I will make backups of the modified files should we need to roll back the changes. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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RFC: Need a Sysadmin Greeter
by Stephen John Smoogen 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Ok I am not doing a good job of greeting new people and helping to get them oriented. For the many people on this list I apologize. My time for getting people into the group has been overloaded and it keeps getting put back. So it is time for a new approach... currently we have a page for getting started, what to expect, and how to get sponsored... but we have not been good about greeting people and finding places where their skills match. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_be_a_successful_contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingSponsored We also need to show the separation between groups, sysadmin, sysadmin-noc, sysadmin-test, sysadmin-main etc. Some groups are going to take a while for someone to get into (sysadmin-releng and sysadmin-main) mainly because it is a matter of trust and work. Other groups are 'easier' to get into but still require trust. Anyway, I would like to get ideas on how e can do this better and move forward. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren

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Requesting for sponsor
by kavitha.c.k kavitha.c.k 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi I'm Kavitha.C.K from India . I work as coporate trainer.I would like to be a contributor for the fedoraproject.Kernel development and device drivers is my passion. I know some concepts of kernel internals and drivers.I would request for a sponsor who can guide me how to be a successfull contributor and teach me how does the fedoraproject work.Please do the needful Regards Kavitha.C.K

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Outage: Fedora related services down 2010-12-15 22:00 UTC
by Stephen John Smoogen 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Due to problems with some NFS in our PHX2 facility we are experiencing diminished capacity to several of our services. We are working with our provider and engineers on how to deal with this issue soon. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-12-15 22:00 UTC' Reason for outage: NFS operations with filer are peaking below expected rates causing hangs on NFS clients. Affected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ CVS / Source Control Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Unaffected Services: Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2516 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren

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Meeting today?
by Derek Carter 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

I've heard that the fallout from the NFS problems in PHX2 datacenter is still in full force. Do we want to have our weekly meeting today? Or should we postpone/cancel it? I move to cancel and we can come back and have a proper post-mortem of the outage next week. That being said. Make sure to post your meeting ideas to https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report with the keyword "meeting" -- Derek

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