[blag-whereto] blag.fsf.org ssh down

[Alexandre Oliva]

I was told the other day that as far as the FSF is concerned, I'm the
contact point for that machine, and that I'm ultimately responsible for
sysadmin, as in installing patches to keep it safe.  Good to know ;-)

I immediately started looking into how to upgrade it from 90k to 140k,
which proved to be tricky because of the changes in rpm format (old
rpm/yum/etc can't read new rpms) and libc/kernel incompatibilities that
IIUC would prevent the new glibc from even running properly on top of
the old 90k kernel.  Fortunately, the latter was a non-issue, for we're
already running a custom kernel with xen support.

The former required me to set up a blag140k mock chroot elsewhere,
upload it to the server, and then use yum in there to update a copy of
our root to 140k.  That was successful, but it seems to have restarted
ssh inside the chroot, for ssh doesn't work any more.  Sadly, I only
noticed the problem whne trying to get back in after my ISP changed my
dynamic IP address.  Oops.

I've asked FSF folks to restart the machine, and I'd like to perform the
upgrade to 140k on the actual root when the machine comes back up.  If
you'd rather I didn't do that, please let me know within the next 3
days, for I hope to do it next week.

Thanks,

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter    http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/   FSF Latin America board member
Free Software Evangelist      Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer