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

[Weyasey]

Well since the server is actually broken and useless at the moment I don't
think we can object to anything you do now.

The questions should have been asked before you did anything in the
beginning, now we don't have a repository and even worst nobody can SSH to
the server......YIKES!!!!!!
On Jun 4, 2011 7:31 AM, "Alexandre Oliva" <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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