Just a flash feedback - some ours again I could login again, but qstat gave an error message while crontab was running regularly; now qstat runs again.
Presently is running under Alebot account a IRC script only, that can be considered a test routine; have I to stop it, to make server update easier? Alex 2013/5/13 DaB. <w...@daniel.baur4.info> > Hello all, > > as you have surely noticed the toolserver is even more unstable and > unreliable > than normal at the moment. The reason is that our ha-nodes are not longer > working as intended and neither Nosy nor I are able to fix this. > > A quick word was ha-nodes are: The "ha" stands for "high available" and we > have 2 servers for that. Some services at the toolserver are so important > that > a downtime is unacceptable (like /home, LDAP or the DNS) and for this > reasons > these services life at the ha-nodes. If one server goes down or crashes > then > the other can continue to operate all services with no or little > interruption > time and without working by a root. That worked great as long as River was > here and not-so-good in the last months, but now it is totally broken. > The problem is that both ha-nodes run Solaris and all roots are no Solaris- > experts what makes it hard for us to find errors or in this case > impossible. We > have setup a very ugly workaround, but it is not stable and so the > downtime of > important services cause downtime for the hole toolserver – and more work > for > the roots. > > We can only think of one solution: Replacing the solaris at the ha-nodes > with > linux. But this can not start before Friday and it will take some time > until > everything is moved over. It will also cause some hours of complete > downtime > while /home is copied (we will separately announce this). In best case when > Whitsun is over everything will be working again, in worst case it will > need 2 > weeks (I will be away between 21 and 26 for the general meeting of WMDE). > The repairing of the ha-nodes has top priority, so everything else will be > delayed (linux-update, database-reimports, account-creation (for VERY > important ones send me a mail), etc.). > > If you have questions, please send them to the ML. > > Sincerely, > DaB. > > -- > Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 0x2d3ee2d42b255885 > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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