Re: [URGENT] FeatureDefinitionFreeze Tomorrow!

2011-11-24 Thread Etienne Goyer
, for one, would very much like to have sssd in main. FWIW. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Stepping Down

2011-08-02 Thread Etienne Goyer
, place in circles, etc. I may be on pause, but I'm still out there :-). Thank you all once again! -- Party On, Adam -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing

[Bug 56679] Re: provide a method to use a specified MAC-address as the installation device

2011-06-09 Thread Etienne Goyer
** Changed in: netcfg (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None = ubuntu-10.04.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56679 Title: provide a method to use a specified MAC-address as the

[Bug 628145] Re: Eucalyptus does not understand IPv6

2011-04-18 Thread Etienne Goyer
** Tags added: ipv6 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to eucalyptus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628145 Title: Eucalyptus does not understand IPv6 -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list

Handling of configuration conflicts during upgrade (was: Re: [10.04 64bit])

2011-04-18 Thread Etienne Goyer
version for some packages, and keep your local changes for others). Thoughts? (surely this is not the right place to discuss that, though) -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Complex deployment testing automation

2011-04-13 Thread Etienne Goyer
probably be coaxed into testing distributed systems too. Is that a good idea? Shall we consider Jenkins at all? -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Nagios

2011-03-31 Thread Etienne Goyer
would be very, very cautious about dumping that out in favor of a recent fork. I am all for doing a competitive analysis, but please take market adoption into account. (Not that I have any love for Nagios; it's hairy and bynzantine. Just saying that we should be cautious here.) -- Etienne Goyer

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] SRU Process

2011-03-31 Thread Etienne Goyer
to benefit from the bug fix, or 2. use an unsupported/unmaintained version of the buggy package (backport, PPA, compiled from source, whatever). Agreed that Apache is not such a good example here. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Revisit Xen support

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
of these organisations much easier, and even open new opportunities for Ubuntu in the enterprises. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] SRU Process

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/07/06/weve-packaged-all-of-the-free-software-what-now/ Decoupling certain key software from the distribution so that it does not have to be upgraded in lockstep would be a start. I would really like to discuss that at the UDS; count me in. -- Etienne Goyer Technical

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Puppet Integration

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
we really have the opportunity to differentiate Ubuntu here. In particular, preseedable d-i integration would make Ubuntu deployment a completely hands-off operation. Again, count me in for that one! -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] ipv6 health check

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
think IPv6 enablement has to be a cross-team effort. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] SRU Process

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
to make in keeping certain key software fresh in LTS. Whether we deliver these in backports, PPA or some other mechanism is really just an implementation detail, IMHO. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] ipv6 health check

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
that expectations be clarified here. If we really consider IPv6-only not to be a supported configuration, then we need to very upfront about this. Because you will start to see people going that route very shortly; I know of a few already. AFAIC, adherence to IPv4 are bugs, period. -- Etienne Goyer

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] ipv6 health check

2011-03-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
On 11-03-30 11:46 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Etienne Goyer wrote: - What about IPv6 support in Eucalyptus and OpenStack? Dunno about Eucalyptus, but OpenStack/Nova has ipv6 support baked in. By that, do you mean you can run OpenStack/Nova in an IPv4-free environment? What about the instances

[Bug 735369] [NEW] Bacula Admin Tool (bat) does not work well with Qt 4.6.2 in Lucid

2011-03-15 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bacula-console-qt On lucid, in the Version Browser of bat, it is impossible to check the latest version of a file. This is described in the following upstream bug report: http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1550 (login using anonymous/anonymous) For

[Bug 615810] Re: nagios3-common and nagios3-core : grep: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg: No such file or directory

2011-03-09 Thread Etienne Goyer
The error seems to be cosmetic, as the service would still start (I have not checked in depth, though). Still, the fix is trivial and really ought to be SRU'ed at some point, IMHO. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

Re: SSL by default for all packaged web apps?

2011-03-01 Thread Etienne Goyer
Re-reading my email, I think I got a bit too snarky toward the end. While I think my arguments are sound, the discussion does not have to be confrontational. My apologies to Marc and the list for the tone I used earlier. On 11-03-01 09:01 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote: On 11-03-01 06:39 PM, Marc

[Bug 721514] [NEW] Samba should be more selective when importing accounts

2011-02-18 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: samba The Samba postinst maintainer script systematically import all account with uid = 1000. This is so that user account and such have corresponding Samba account. In most case, this is a good thing and make. However, where the machine has been

Re: JeOS and ISCSI ISO testcases moved to optional

2011-02-17 Thread Etienne Goyer
02:32 PM, Robbie Williamson wrote: Nevermind...didn't catch the not :/...thanks for the very informative, yet mostly unhelpful to my needs response. Cue http://www.sadtrombone.com . -Robbie On 02/17/2011 01:24 PM, Robbie Williamson wrote: On 02/17/2011 01:15 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote: I am

[Bug 302148] Re: Installing wine starts winbindd as a daemon

2011-02-08 Thread Etienne Goyer
As Thierry and Anders pointed out above, this might be causing breakage. See bug #605326, for example. Considering we are installing recommended package by default, this ought to be reviewed. I think winbind should be made a Suggests of wine instead, since the NTLM authentication feature is not

Re: netcat -q default behavior, should it be reverted?

2010-12-23 Thread Etienne Goyer
factor parameters for a unix command tool. I for one could easily be bitten by this bug and would probably take forever to find it. -J On 22 dec 2010, at 23.02, Etienne Goyer wrote: Robbie is of the opinion that the behavior should be reverted back to the upstream default in Natty

[Bug 683955] Re: [SRU] Please upgrade tftpd-hpa in lucid to at least 5.0-14

2010-12-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
As a note, you need to turn on verbosity by adding -v to TFTP_OPTIONS in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa, otherwise the daemon do not log file get. Useful to know when testing. Beside, I can confirm the proposed update fix the bug too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

netcat -q default behavior, should it be reverted?

2010-12-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
against the SRU policy, with sound rationale. On the other, this bug can be extremely frustrating to those that hit it. I think, at the very least, this would need to be documented *somehow*. Thoughts? -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor

Re: Ubuntu server cannot find the root device

2010-12-21 Thread Etienne Goyer
annoying, but he, it boot faster! :) -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server

[Bug 604400] Re: Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

2010-12-10 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dave: again, sorry I can't produce the correct text, as I am not sure what the exact behavior is supposed to be. Feel free to mark as Won't Fix, if you think it does not deserve to be clarified. ** Changed in: eucalyptus (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Confirmed -- You received this bug

Re: [Bug 684399] Re: package winbind 2:3.4 .7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 failed to install/upgrade: el s ubproceso script post-installation instalado devolvió el código de salida de error 1

2010-12-03 Thread Etienne Goyer
On 10-12-03 02:08 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: I also see in the DpkgTerminalLog.gz that nmbd fails to stop, meaning it is not running. I may be wrong here, but I believe nmbd is necessary for winbind. No, nmbd is not strictly required for winbindd. But the fact that nmbd fail to start is indeed

[Bug 661547] Re: Existing patch gssapi.diff makes guess_service_principal produce garbage

2010-11-18 Thread Etienne Goyer
Unless I am mistaken, this bug render likewise-open DOA. Now that the last update to openldap in maverick-proposed has gone through, I guess it would be a good time to push this one. Not trying to push anybody around. I swear, I would do it myself if I had the credentials! :) -- Existing

[Bug 613671] Re: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass when signing certificate

2010-09-13 Thread Etienne Goyer
Alexandre, I had the same problem. The root cause was that the server directive in the client's puppet.conf did not match the hostname that was used in the puppetmaster certificate. Check your puppetmaster certificate with sudo puppetmaster -p puppetmaster (where puppetmaster is the hostname of

[Bug 608930] [NEW] libnss-ldap needlessly (and indirectly) depend on libpam-ldap

2010-07-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libnss-ldap This has been researched on Lucid, but also affect earlier releases. libnss-ldap depends on ldap-auth-config, which depends on ldap-auth- client, which depends on libpam-ldap. This means that installing libnss-ldap will systematically pull

[Bug 604400] Re: Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

2010-07-12 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dave: I would love to, except I am not too sure what the expected behavior is. It would be best if someone who actually knows what's going on write the text in question. -- Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604400 You received this bug

[Bug 604400] [NEW] Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

2010-07-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: In Lucid, in the file /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf, the following comment can be found near the bottom: # Administrative overrides and customizations may go below, in accordance # with the manpage for eucalyptus.conf(5). Reading the above, one can be lead to think that

[Bug 604400] Re: Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf

2010-07-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
For the record, that bug made me lost a couple of hours, and left me quite frustrated. I think it is serious enough to deserve a fix (ie, clarifying the behavior in the in-line comment). -- Confusing comment in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604400 You received

[Bug 463449] Re: How to decrease cloud-debug / cloud-error log verbosity (or disable them)

2010-06-24 Thread Etienne Goyer
H.M., fully agreed on all points. This topic have been brought up in the past two UDS; not sure what the roadmap for resolution is. -- How to decrease cloud-debug / cloud-error log verbosity (or disable them) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463449 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 591472] [NEW] When the eucalyptus-cc service is stopped, the private dhcpd3 is left running and the iptables rules are not flushed

2010-06-08 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eucalyptus-cc After stopping the eucalyptus-cc service, it seems like the private dhcpd3 process to serve IP to instances is left running. Moreover, the iptables rules added by Eucalyptus in MANAGED mode are not being flushed. Here is a screen dump to

[Bug 579868] Re: Unable to use Eucalyptus' iptables-preload feature with UEC

2010-06-08 Thread Etienne Goyer
This bug is affecting me too. A scenario where the iptables-preload feature would be needed is one where the NC are in a separate private network (where the CC would have its VNET_PRIVINTERFACE). If you wish to NAT traffic between the private NC network and the public one (where the Walrus

[Bug 579868] Re: Unable to use Eucalyptus' iptables-preload feature with UEC

2010-06-08 Thread Etienne Goyer
Please disregard the previous command. Looking again, it seems like the iptables rules eucalyptus-cc set up are sufficient to NAT connection from NC to the outside world, so the private NC network topology is not made impossible by this bug. Still, iptables-preload sounds like a useful feature.

Re: [Bug 566792] Re: metadata service returns empty data with 200 OK

2010-05-20 Thread Etienne Goyer
Daniel Nurmi wrote: Scott, thank you for pursuing this issue. Indeed, the meta-data service keys off of the public IP of the VM, since that is the only source address that is translated when the NCs cannot directly contact the CLC (MANAGED modes). In order for the meta-data service to work,

iSCSI target software

2010-04-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
/ upstart job to start tgtd. Both are in universe. I am wondering what people think of these two options, and if it would be appropriate to write a MIR to get one of those in main. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3

[Bug 570923] [NEW] euca_conf --deregister-walrus usage summary is wrong

2010-04-27 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eucalyptus-common euca_conf --help usage summary for the --deregister-walrus argument is wrong. We get: --deregister-walrus host remove walrus from EUCALYPTUS Assuming we currently have the Walrus service at 10.0.0.10, if we do: $

Re: Lucid Root on RAID1

2010-04-27 Thread Etienne Goyer
in the Ubuntu Server community can help confirm or deny this bug. You would need to have real hardware with two disks, that you can reinstall. Please post your results here, if you can help test this. Thanks! -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor

[Bug 559230] Re: multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC

2010-04-15 Thread Etienne Goyer
Good news, but can we clarify the addressing part nonetheless? Ie, can VNET_PUBLICIPS and the IP of VNET_PUBINTERFACE on the CC be on the same subnet? -- multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559230 You received this bug notification

[Bug 559230] Re: multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC

2010-04-14 Thread Etienne Goyer
Just a question: why is VNET_PUBLICIPS commented in eucalyptus.conf? -- multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559230 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to eucalyptus in

[Bug 559230] Re: multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC

2010-04-14 Thread Etienne Goyer
Looking at the comment history, I think it might be that the VNET_PUBLICIPS range and the address of VNET_PUBINTERFACE are in the same subnet, which cannot possibly work. Which is a known limitation related to netfilter; ask Dan about it. But without knowing what the value of VNET_PUBLICIPS on

[Bug 559230] Re: multi-machine topology, cannot reach an instance from the CLC

2010-04-14 Thread Etienne Goyer
Just to explain a bit further. The reason I am suspecting VNET_PUBLICIPS to be wrong is that eth0 on the CC has two IP in the 10.55.55.0/24 range (see comment #11). I presume 10.55.55.8 is the CC actual IP, and comment #7 indicate that 10.55.55.100 is the IP of the instance. In this case,

Re: Quality regression in 10.04 for servers?

2010-04-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
Janåke Rönnblom wrote: - No support for the latest DELL RAID cards at install. Have there been a bug reported on that one? -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Ubuntu server LAMP + Active Directory

2010-04-09 Thread Etienne Goyer
alongside with Samba, but if you do not need Samba in the first, I would recommend it in the first place as it is so much simpler to use. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server

Re: Server Team 20100331 meeting minutes

2010-04-01 Thread Etienne Goyer
. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[Bug 546293] Re: Cannot start more than 29 instances

2010-03-24 Thread Etienne Goyer
Hi Carlos, I think you are having the problem discussed at: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eucalyptus/+question/87145 -- Cannot start more than 29 instances https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546293 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team,

[Bug 546293] Re: No instances started if euca-run-instance is run with bug -n

2010-03-24 Thread Etienne Goyer
It is probably the same root cause, though. Does euca-run-instances -n 30 ... works if you increase the value of VNET_ADDRSPERNET and do a clean restart? If yes, then it's not really a bug, although I guess euca2ools should say something meaningful about why no instance are being started. i am

[Bug 544292] Re: Increase m1.small memory to 192 MB

2010-03-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Why not 256MB? 192MB just seems ... terribly odd. CPU cores are usually the limiting factor anyway. Someone with limited memory on node controllers and/or specific requirements can always change the value in the web UI, if need be. -- Increase m1.small memory to 192 MB

[Bug 539791] [NEW] mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: smbfs In Karmic, it is possible to mount a CIFS filesystem from a DFS referral, but it would fail when using Kerberos authentication. Witness: warthogs\ca...@karmic-desktop:~$ mount.cifs //warthogs.biz/namespace1/firstshare share --verbose -o sec=krb5

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
** Attachment added: dmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41050898/dmesg.txt -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539791 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
For comparison purpose, here is the output of smbclient -d3 -k -c showconnect //warthogs.biz/namespace1/firstshare. We can see that it work as expected. -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539791 You received this bug

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
For comparison purpose, here is the output of smbclient -d3 -k -c showconnect //warthogs.biz/namespace1/firstshare. We can see that it work as expected. ** Attachment added: smbclient.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41051221/smbclient.txt -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
The output of klist after running the mount.cifs command. ** Attachment added: klist.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41051333/klist.txt -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539791 You received this bug notification

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
We still have the same problem in lucid, using kernel 2.6.32-16-generic. Attached the relevant dmesg snippet. keyutils is 1.2-12, and likewise- open is 5.4.0.39949-3. ** Attachment added: dmesg-lucid.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41056228/dmesg-lucid.txt -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
In lucid, there was the following in /var/log/debug that seems to relate to the problem at hand. ** Attachment added: debug.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41057441/debug.txt -- mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539791

[Bug 539791] Re: mount.cifs cannot mount a DFS share when using Kerberos authentication

2010-03-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
Investigating the problem further, I thought the problem might have been that resolving the DFS referral returned a NetBIOS machine name, not a FQDN, for the server hosting the service (ie, WARTHOGS-ADC instead of warthogs-adc.warthogs.biz). After looking around, I followed the advice in

[Bug 519648] Re: After all-in-one setup node-cert.pem and node-pk.pem not found

2010-03-03 Thread Etienne Goyer
For the record, I had a all-in-one UEC system running on jaunty in SYSTEM mode a while ago. I still have my notes somewhere, although I doubt they would be very applicable to lucid. -- After all-in-one setup node-cert.pem and node-pk.pem not found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519648 You

[Bug 527143] [NEW] /etc/default/openbsd-inetd missing from package

2010-02-24 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openbsd-inetd /etc/default/openbsd-inetd is being sourced from /etc/init.d/openbsd- inetd, but no such file is included in the openbsd-inetd package. This is not such a terrible thing, as the init script will run just fine anyway. I guess it would be

Re: nfs4acl?

2010-02-23 Thread Etienne Goyer
, UNIX Systems Administrator Computing Service, University of York -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 524101] Re: optionally fetch public ssh keys from Launchpad when starting an instance

2010-02-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Rather, if euca-add-keypair could be pointed to an existing id file (optionally, pointing to one stored in Launchpad), that would be terrific. The fact that we have to generate a new key each time we upload an identity to EC2/Eucalyptus is terribly annoying; using an existing identity/key pair

Re: [Bug 253937] Re: Local login fails without LDAP server

2010-02-04 Thread Etienne Goyer
not experienced with any of them, so I cannot make an enlightened recommendation, but they all tries to address exactly the problem being discussed here. I suggest you investigate them, and reports bug you find along the way. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified

[Bug 475354] Re: Hostname not set correctly on UEC cloud due to IP address in local-hostname manifest data

2010-02-03 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dan, would enabling the Eucalyptus DNS feature actually fix this problem? If so, then is there a good reason to disable it in the first place? -- Hostname not set correctly on UEC cloud due to IP address in local-hostname manifest data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475354 You received this

Re: proposed universe demotion: virt-manager (or, a request for active maintenance)

2010-01-31 Thread Etienne Goyer
not be high on their priority list, and that is perfectly fair. This discussion will likely not end in a consensus. Someone, somewhere should just make a decision about it. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux

[Bug 458203] Re: euca_conf is missing command-line completion

2010-01-29 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dustin Kirkland wrote: Possibly a paper-cut? Totally! Nominating. ** Also affects: server-papercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- euca_conf is missing command-line completion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458203 You received this bug notification because you are a member

Re: [Bug 513379] Re: UEC Cluster name should have a default value

2010-01-29 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dustin Kirkland wrote: How about cluster1? Which is actually a Pink Floyd reference? :-) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_One Ok, that is passable. Could have been more geeky, though. -- UEC Cluster name should have a default value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513379 You received

[Bug 513379] Re: UEC Cluster name should have a default value

2010-01-29 Thread Etienne Goyer
The above could have used a smiley on my part, so there: :D -- UEC Cluster name should have a default value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to eucalyptus in ubuntu. --

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
with your bugs directly, but I think it is a very good thing that we get this kind of feedback. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
(and printing works much better with CUPS, which is owned by Apple). Indeed, modern MacOS actually speaks CIFS, so Samba is all you need. netatalk is only really useful when speaking to ancient Mac, it is somewhat obsolete these days. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
, -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -LPIC-3 ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
Jordan Erickson wrote: Etienne Goyer wrote: *snip* Is LTSP not heavily dependant on NFS? Yes, as the read-only root file system. Security is not critical in this use-case. Actually, since Ubuntu 8.04 (or earlier?), The LTSP client filesystem uses NBD by default. http

[Bug 513379] Re: UEC Cluster name should have a default value

2010-01-27 Thread Etienne Goyer
Boring. Why not warthogs? -- UEC Cluster name should have a default value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to eucalyptus in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list

Re: Ubuntu Server update for Lucid Alpha3

2010-01-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
-server/2010-January/ 003613.html [22] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2010-January/ 003615.html [23] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ec2/2010-January/ 001254.html -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor

Ubuntu Server Guide and LDAP multi-master replication

2010-01-13 Thread Etienne Goyer
we should continue to document (and hence, implicitly recommend) MMR first and foremost? [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zeilenga-ldup-harmful-02 -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor- LPIC-3 -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Server Guide and LDAP multi-master replication

2010-01-13 Thread Etienne Goyer
Etienne Goyer wrote: Smarter people that I have argued[1] against MMR ... That really should have read: Smarter people *than* I Otherwise, the sense is completely warped. :D Damn caffeine makes me dyslexic. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified

Re: Ubuntu Server Guide and LDAP multi-master replication

2010-01-13 Thread Etienne Goyer
, add complexity too). I am not *against* documenting MMR, but we should steer users toward the standard directory model first and foremost. HA is a completely different topic, and not one the guide try to address in that section. At least, not in its current form. -- Etienne Goyer Technical

[Bug 493565] Re: Cifs mount fails when DFS referrals are used by server, keyutils needed

2010-01-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
Thierry: I cannot think of a downside to having keyutils installed. mount.cifs can authenticate using NTLM. In fact, this is the default. Kerberos authentication for CIFS mount is only really used in Active Directory context. In that use-case, the administrator of the machine mounting a CIFS

[Bug 493565] Re: Cifs mount fails when DFS referrals are used by server, keyutils needed

2009-12-09 Thread Etienne Goyer
It is worth noting that smbfs already Suggests keyutils. I am not sure it should be made a Depends, tough. Kerberos authentication is only one possible mechanism, and already requires setting up Kerberos. Maybe the requirement for keyutils could be documented in a README.Debian? -- Cifs mount

[Bug 452323] Re: kvm disabled in bios (was: Unable to start EUC instances - no supported architecture for os type 'hvm')

2009-10-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dustin, thanks a lot for that fix! This will save tons of grieves to lots of people down the road. I know *I* lost a couple of hours before figuring out that VT extensions where disabled in the BIOS ... :D -- kvm disabled in bios (was: Unable to start EUC instances - no supported architecture

[Bug 322511] Re: Time is being adjusted by ntpdate even if you choose to manage time manually in System Administration Time and Date

2009-10-27 Thread Etienne Goyer
Sounds good now. I have no idea where the magic operate, as /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate do not check the desktop environment setting, but manually-set time persist across reboot now. Thanks, I guess this can be closed. -- Time is being adjusted by ntpdate even if you choose to manage time

Re: vps recommendations

2009-10-27 Thread Etienne Goyer
Sorry to bring back that thread from the past, but this is worth an update. Etienne Goyer wrote: FYI, I blogged about my experience with Linode: http://etienneg.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/pimp-my-vps-linode-com/ TL;DR: I am very satisfied with them. It seems like Linode just had

Re: acl in karmic

2009-10-26 Thread Etienne Goyer
Jorge Armando Medina wrote: Intersting, where did you read this info? we use acls for almost every fileservers we install for windows ACLs compatibility. apt-cache policy acl -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human

[Bug 459204] [NEW] The text debconf template eucalyptus/publicips is wrong

2009-10-23 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: In karmic, eucalyptus 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7, the text of the eucalyptus/publicips debconf template is wrong. It says the following: Please specify one or more ranges of IP addresses, e.g.: 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.199 or 192.168.2.50-192.168.2.99

[Bug 459204] Re: The text debconf template eucalyptus/publicips is wrong

2009-10-23 Thread Etienne Goyer
Sorry guys, this was a user error. I was using a range in VNET_PUBLICIPS that was not in use on the machine. Sorry for the noise! ** Changed in: eucalyptus (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- The text debconf template eucalyptus/publicips is wrong https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459204

Re: [Bug 457864] Re: Cloud Web interface should allow overcommit on CPU

2009-10-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
, that would be great. -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- Cloud Web interface should allow overcommit on CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457864 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 458203] [NEW] euca_conf is missing command-line completion

2009-10-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: The euca_conf script, shipped in eucalyptus-common, is missing command- line completion. This would be nice to have at some point. ** Affects: eucalyptus (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist Status: New ** Changed in: eucalyptus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided =

[Bug 458211] [NEW] eucalyptus.conf is confusing and underdocumented

2009-10-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: The configuration file /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf, used by all Eucalyptus services (-cloud, -cc, -nc, etc) is very confusing and practically undocumented. The inline comments are helpful, but they do not provide enough context for the administrator to decide which

[Bug 458484] [NEW] euca_conf --help is wrong about --delete-nodes

2009-10-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: In karmic eucalyptus 1.6~bzr931-0ubuntu7, the output of euca_conf --help is wrong about the argument to remove a node from the cluster. It states the argument is --delete-nodes, while it should really be --deregister-nodes. ** Affects: eucalyptus (Ubuntu) Importance:

Re: vps recommendations

2009-10-22 Thread Etienne Goyer
so low. Just my two cents, -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor ~= Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings =~ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https

[Bug 453129] [NEW] copyright file is incorrect, Eucalyptus is now licensed GPLv3

2009-10-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
Public bug reported: The copyright file of eucalyptus in karmic is incorrect. It states that Eucalyptus is under a BSD-derived license, when it is really is under GPLv3 at this point. Please see http://www.eucalyptus.com/licenses/, and check the header of various source files for confirmation.

Re: [Bug 452323] Re: Unable to start EUC instances - no supported architecture for os type 'hvm'

2009-10-15 Thread Etienne Goyer
Joseph Salisbury wrote: Hmm. I wonder if this could be related to the bios. I'll check it to ensure the correct settings are enabled for KVM. Could an error like this occur if the bios was not setup correctly? Yes, indeed. -- Unable to start EUC instances - no supported architecture for

[Bug 253937] Re: Local login fails without LDAP server

2009-10-08 Thread Etienne Goyer
On 2008-08-06, Steve had this tidbit of wisdom: If you are only using libnss-ldap without nscd, there is nowhere in the model for this reachability information to be stored. If you use nscd, results will be cached in the event the server is down. Well, yes and no. Enumeration of NSS database,

Re: [Bug 432154] Re: dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM

2009-09-29 Thread Etienne Goyer
Dustin Kirkland wrote: Note that I had to modprobe acpiphp. Perhaps we should consider loading this module in init or in modules.conf. I have reported this issue in bug #364916. -- dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432154 You

[Bug 432154] Re: dynamic block device attach/detach not functional with karmic KVM

2009-09-18 Thread Etienne Goyer
Not Dan, but here's my take anyway. I would say it is fairly critical. The EBS functionality (on which the block device attach/detach functionality depends) is a pretty important feature. Without, data persistence is not obvious. For example, you would run MySQL in the cloud by keeping table

[Bug 431114] Re: /var/run/eucalyptus is not being set with correct permissions on machine reboot

2009-09-17 Thread Etienne Goyer
Do not forget to create /var/run/eucalyptus/net/ too (per bug #365349), otherwise only SYSTEM mode will work. -- /var/run/eucalyptus is not being set with correct permissions on machine reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431114 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 430820] Re: eucalyptus node install results in broken /etc/network/interfaces

2009-09-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
You will also want to make eth0 manual (iface eth0 inet manual), otherwise both the bridge and eth0 will get an IP, making the routing table funny. -- eucalyptus node install results in broken /etc/network/interfaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430820 You received this bug notification

[Bug 430820] Re: eucalyptus node install results in broken /etc/network/interfaces

2009-09-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
Colin, for me on jaunty, the following /etc/network/interfaces result in a system with broken network (ie, cannot ping or connect to anything): --- # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0

[Bug 429754] Re: Instance fail to run

2009-09-16 Thread Etienne Goyer
Unfortunately, I had to revert back to 1.5 for a specific project, and I do not have the hardware to run two clusters in parallel (a stable one on jaunty/1.5, and one for testing on karmic/1.6). I will not be able to test any earlier than late next week. Sorry! :( -- Instance fail to run

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