<p>Well since the server is actually broken and useless at the moment I don't think we can object to anything you do now.</p>
<p>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!!!!!!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 4, 2011 7:31 AM, "Alexandre Oliva" <<a href="mailto:lxoliva@fsfla.org">lxoliva@fsfla.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I was told the other day that as far as the FSF is concerned, I'm the<br>
> contact point for that machine, and that I'm ultimately responsible for<br>> sysadmin, as in installing patches to keep it safe. Good to know ;-)<br>> <br>> I immediately started looking into how to upgrade it from 90k to 140k,<br>
> which proved to be tricky because of the changes in rpm format (old<br>> rpm/yum/etc can't read new rpms) and libc/kernel incompatibilities that<br>> IIUC would prevent the new glibc from even running properly on top of<br>
> the old 90k kernel. Fortunately, the latter was a non-issue, for we're<br>> already running a custom kernel with xen support.<br>> <br>> The former required me to set up a blag140k mock chroot elsewhere,<br>
> upload it to the server, and then use yum in there to update a copy of<br>> our root to 140k. That was successful, but it seems to have restarted<br>> ssh inside the chroot, for ssh doesn't work any more. Sadly, I only<br>
> noticed the problem whne trying to get back in after my ISP changed my<br>> dynamic IP address. Oops.<br>> <br>> I've asked FSF folks to restart the machine, and I'd like to perform the<br>> upgrade to 140k on the actual root when the machine comes back up. If<br>
> you'd rather I didn't do that, please let me know within the next 3<br>> days, for I hope to do it next week.<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter <a href="http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/">http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/</a><br>
> You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi<br>> Be Free! -- <a href="http://FSFLA.org/">http://FSFLA.org/</a> FSF Latin America board member<br>> Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer<br>
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