Re: rsyslogd fails to write after logrotate and grub2 hangs after a restart

2012-08-16 Thread Alvin
On 5/08/2012 7:11, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Jim Tarvid wrote: > >> These two bugs are destroying my equanimity. I wrote a cron kludge to >> work >> around the first but I have to drive to the colo to restart my system. >> >> Needless to say I am not a happy Ubuntu Server user >> > Not everyon

Re: Kernel Panics Ubuntu Server 11.04 and Samba

2011-05-25 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 00:23:22 zongo saiba wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have been running Ubuntu Server 11.04 for a couple of weeks with a Samba > server and it is running great. The other day a client win7 tried to do a > backup to the allocated Samba share and the server kernel-panicked on me. >

Re: qcow2 snapshotting: does it influence future IO performance?

2011-03-31 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 31 March 2011 15:15:35 jurgen.depic...@let.be wrote: Hi Alvin. I read on your site that you stopped work on a project because LVM snapshots potentially decreased IO performance, and I also saw that you worked on a perl project to make copies of VMs, so therefore I address my

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Server Boot

2011-03-30 Thread Alvin
://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285013 [8] "_netdev not working" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384347 [9] "Libvirt NFS mount on boot." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351307 [10] "quasselcore does not connect to database at boot" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612729 -- Alvin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam

Re: run our business's mail server (W2003-DOMINO) as a KVM

2011-03-10 Thread Alvin
ds me I still have to add this information to bug 712392 [1]... done. Links: [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712392 -- Alvin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam

Re: recovery of virtual machines on KVM

2011-02-10 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 19:39:57 Tapas Mishra wrote: > I am having a virtualization setup via KVM on a Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit > server. > > A recent dbus update cause a crash of my Host OS.It was a post install > script of dbus which ultimately brought everything down. > > Now I have to basic

Re: Server load too high when using qemu-img

2011-02-03 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 03 February 2011 15:01:37 Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Alvin (i...@alvin.be): > > I have long standing performance problems on Lucid when handling large > > files. > > > > I notice this on several servers, but here is a detailed example of a > >

Server load too high when using qemu-img

2011-02-01 Thread Alvin
I have long standing performance problems on Lucid when handling large files. I notice this on several servers, but here is a detailed example of a scenario I encountered yesterday. Server (stilgar) is a Quad-core with 8 GB ram. The server has 3 disks. 1 Disk contains the operating system. The

Re: Hardware Raid Controller Card.

2010-12-29 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 13:27:19 Jussi Jaurola wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have loaded Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on HP DL 360 G6. > > Can someone please recommend good Hardware RAID Controller Card for this > > specific HP Server. > > > > Thanks > > > > Kaushal > > 3ware has several great perfo

Re: taking lvm backup

2010-09-28 Thread Alvin
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 10:45:58 Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > mount /dev/nintendo/lvm4 /mnt -o ro > > > > If it has a filesystem on it, that should detect it, and mount it > > I get following message when I do as above that you said. > mount

double information in motd

2010-07-14 Thread Alvin
-notifier/update-motd-updates-available contains the command that produces this output (/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human- readable) Any idea why this output appears twice? -- Alvin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Lucid: LVM snapshots on RAID1

2010-04-28 Thread Alvin
Dustin Kirkland kindly requested me not to hijack his thread for this purpose, so this is a new one. I hereby apologize. I'm looking for people to confirm https://launchpad.net/bugs/563895 What you need is a system running Lucid on mdadm RAID1 with 1 LVM volume group, spanning the entire md. The

Re: Lucid Root on RAID1

2010-04-27 Thread Alvin
On Monday 26 April 2010 16:22:13 Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Imre Gergely wrote: > > I've tried various things but couldn't reproduce the problem... See my > > comments in the bugreport. > > Thanks, Imre. > > Please, anyone else looking at this, comment in the bug r

Re: Bug or hardware failure

2010-04-19 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 15 April 2010 10:57:24 Alvin wrote: > A week ago, a server of mine suddenly started to halt on random moments. > Blank screen, no input. Drives and memory where fine. I needed frequent > reboots to be able to finally start the machine (always that blank screen) > Nothing

Bug or hardware failure

2010-04-15 Thread Alvin
A week ago, a server of mine suddenly started to halt on random moments. Blank screen, no input. Drives and memory where fine. I needed frequent reboots to be able to finally start the machine (always that blank screen) Nothing in the logs hours before a sudden crash, nothing in /var/crash. Afte

Re: Problem with no display on 10.04 beta2 server

2010-04-11 Thread Alvin
On Sunday 11 April 2010 12:16:55 James Gray wrote: > On 11/04/2010, at 8:06 PM, Alvin wrote: > > On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:59:58 James Gray wrote: > >> On 11/04/2010, at 7:15 PM, Janåke Rönnblom wrote: > >>> I have an IBM 3550 server where I have installed the 1

Re: Problem with no display on 10.04 beta2 server

2010-04-11 Thread Alvin
On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:59:58 James Gray wrote: > On 11/04/2010, at 7:15 PM, Janåke Rönnblom wrote: > > I have an IBM 3550 server where I have installed the 10.04 beta2 server > > on. On reboot after the BIOS messages all I get is a blinking cursor and > > then it disappears. If I try ALT+F1/F2,

Re: Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

2010-03-26 Thread Alvin
On Friday 26 March 2010 19:15:09 Etienne Goyer wrote: > 'Soren Hansen' wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Egbert Jan wrote: > >> But what heck, nobody asked to have fancy server bootspash screens on > >> servers. > > > > That's simply not true. /You/ may not have asked for it, bu

Re: mount.nfs: No such device

2010-02-16 Thread Alvin
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:38:28 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I get this error mount.nfs: No such device inside the domU while > trying to mount the nfs inside the VM > > "No such device" - NFS is not configured into the client's kernel. > > Is there a workaround for it? I don't understa

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 20:17:00 Joe McDonagh wrote: > Alvin wrote: > > A lot of questions in the annual user survey concern cloud computing. I > > administer some small businesses and use Ubuntu in most of them. Maybe my > > biggest client will one day use a personal clo

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:15:37 Dustin Kirkland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Alvin wrote: > ... > > > This is a real-life scenario. Is it common? I don't know. It's not free > > of struggles as you can see. So, this is a plea for quality. Cl

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:31:00 Etienne Goyer wrote: > > Alvin wrote: > >> Why not Ubuntu? > >> - ZFS (does not need much explanation) > > Not looking to make excuse, but just so you know, ZFS on Linux is > unlikely to happen due to licensing issue: >

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:58:31 Etienne Goyer wrote: > Ante Karamatić wrote: > > On 15.12.2009 13:40, Alvin wrote: > >>- Helios, A commercial application to provide file and print sharing > >>for > >> > >> Macintosh. > > >

Re: Commercial support for fixing bugs

2010-01-07 Thread Alvin
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 18:12:39 Ante Karamatić wrote: > On 05.01.2010 16:50, Alvin wrote: > > So, the bugs I mentioned in my previous post would receive higher > > priority. I only wonder whether this specific bug would be solved in > > karmic, because it needs another

Commercial support for fixing bugs

2010-01-05 Thread Alvin
I'd like to upgrade a lot of machines under my care to karmic, because of different reasons, but there is a bug that 'stops the show'. retry remote devices when parent is ready after SIGUSR1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/470776 In short, NFS mounts can not be trusted. Sometimes

Earth Computing

2009-12-15 Thread Alvin
A lot of questions in the annual user survey concern cloud computing. I administer some small businesses and use Ubuntu in most of them. Maybe my biggest client will one day use a personal cloud, and I applaud the efforts, but I can 't help but notice that other things are left in the cold. The

Re: kvm problem on karmic

2009-12-01 Thread Alvin
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:17:12 Aljoša Mohorović wrote: > i have no idea why kvm is not working, any ideas? > > # /etc/init.d/kvm restart > * Loading kvm module kvm_intel FATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel > (/lib/modules/2.6.31-15-generic-pae/kernel/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko): > Operation not