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

[Weyasey]

Thanks for all your hard work, you can rest assured that nobody will be
throwing rocks :-)
On Jun 7, 2011 10:11 AM, "Alexandre Oliva" <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2011, Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 5, 2011, Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:
>>> It's still not clear how or even whether it did. I *might* be related
>>> with it: both mentioning in public the vulnerabilities of the system
>>> and bind-mounting the repository in /tmp.
>
>> Bernie (FSF admin) tells me the VM host can no longer see the external
>> SATA disk that held storage for our VM guest. He's going to the colo
>> site on Monday to see what gives. This suggests the problem has to do
>> with disk failure, rather than any software issue. Hopefully
>> reconnecting the disk will bring it back up, but we cann't rule out the
>> possibility that the disk died. So, please cross your fingers and pray
>> to your favorite deity or to the Big Bang ;-)
>
> And so it turned out that the disk could be plugged back in and our
> machine booted up fine.
>
> However, tmpwatch had already done its thing, cleaning up everything
> that hadn't been accessed for 10+ days within /tmp. Because of my
> bind-mounts of /mnt/blag_repo in the chroot I used for testing inside
> /tmp, this amounted to a lot of the ftp repository.
>
> I'm deeply sorry for not thinking of the possibility that tmpwatch would
> cause this.
>
> As for recovery of the lost data... I'm waiting for an answer from
> Bernie on whether they do have backups of our system, for he implied
> they might have backed it all up recently.
>
> Regardless, I recommend those who know how to rebuild/complete at least
> the 140k repostory out of our upstream sources to do so. I have torrent
> seeders running for the final isos, and I have local copies of the
> 140k-pre isos as well, as well as BLAG-90001-i386.iso, and if it would
> help, I'd be glad to upload them. However, my upstream bandwidth is not
> exactly great, so it would be a while.
>
> Again, please accept my apologies for my deeds towards this mess.
>
> Weyasey, it is now time to reach for those rocks. Please aim carefully.
> ;-D
>
> :-(
>
> --
> 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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/blag-whereto/attachments/20110608/d185ee3f/attachment.htm>