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Grex > Agora56 > #3: Grex System Announcements - Winter 2005/06 | |
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Grex System Announcements - Winter 2005/06
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Dec 23 04:28 UTC 2005 |
This item is for system announcements (new computer equipment on Grex,
system upgrades, Grex meetings, etc.). Personal announcements should go
back in item 2; Grex system *problems* belong in the next item (#4).
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steve
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response 1 of 34:
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Jan 2 10:56 UTC 2006 |
Grex now has a new kernel (heart of the os), which should fix
the crashing problem we were having ever 5 days or so.
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mary
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response 2 of 34:
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Jan 2 11:43 UTC 2006 |
Thanks, STeve. Just curious - how many hours worth of time
did that task take you?
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cross
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response 3 of 34:
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Jan 2 15:17 UTC 2006 |
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tod
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response 4 of 34:
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Jan 3 00:28 UTC 2006 |
re #3
Hey..some people like to re-seat RAM and others like to buy new ones, ok?
Maybe it was a re-install of the same kernel over the old one? ;)
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steve
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response 5 of 34:
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Jan 3 05:48 UTC 2006 |
Mary, it took likely about 8 hours total, but most of that time
was fighting getting the new source code. The "CVS server", the
entity that lets you get new versions of the code was flaky and
it took several attempts to get the updates for the kernel. Once
I got that it took less than an hour to build a new one, and a
few hours testing it to make sure that it was reasonable.
Yes, I agree that the 3.8 patches are in a weird state: they
should be more readily announced. I knew of them since I see
the changes in the CVS logs.
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keesan
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response 6 of 34:
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Jan 3 13:58 UTC 2006 |
I guess grex is contributing to OpenBSD development by crashing, or don't we
report problems?
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cross
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response 7 of 34:
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Jan 3 15:43 UTC 2006 |
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tod
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response 8 of 34:
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Jan 3 17:49 UTC 2006 |
Grex, then. Right?
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jep
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response 9 of 34:
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Jan 3 19:13 UTC 2006 |
Grex's certificate is expired since August 6, 2005.
I am not sure why Grex and M-Net installed certificates in the first
place, but if they've got to be there, they ought to be kept up to date.
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steve
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response 10 of 34:
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Jan 5 18:08 UTC 2006 |
We'd report problems Sindi, if we encounter new ones. So far,
we haven't. Thats simply not true Dan, but I'm not going to
argue that point.
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remmers
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response 11 of 34:
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Jan 7 14:47 UTC 2006 |
Nominations are open to fill the Grex board of directors vacancies
created by the resignations of Steve Van Loon (vanloons) and David
Cahill (dpc). See Coop item 305 for more information and to make
nominations.
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gelinas
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response 12 of 34:
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Jan 8 02:11 UTC 2006 |
See http://www.cyberspace.org/local/grex/bod.html for a list of current and
former Directors.
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naftee
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response 13 of 34:
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Jan 8 04:34 UTC 2006 |
unluckyt !
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cross
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response 14 of 34:
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Jan 9 14:14 UTC 2006 |
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remmers
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response 15 of 34:
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Jan 23 16:12 UTC 2006 |
The polls are open now through February 6 in the special election to fill
two unexpired terms on the Grex Board of Directors. For more information,
or to cast a ballot, type 'vote' at a Unix shell prompt, '!vote' at most
other prompts, or go to https://grex.org/cgi-bin/pw/voting-booth on the
web.
It's a non-competitive election (two candidates, two slots), but you should
vote anyway. :) As usual, any Grex user can vote, but only the votes of
members in good standing will be counted in determining the pre-ordained
outcome. For information on becoming a member, type 'support' at a Unix
shell prompt, '!support' elsewhere, or go to http://grex.org/member.html
on the web.
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steve
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response 16 of 34:
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Feb 4 07:05 UTC 2006 |
Grex was rebooted Saturday morning to effect a change I just made.
In Janurary I made a new kernel for the system, which had a fix for
the "soft dependency" problem in the stock 3.8 release. This fix
has made the softdep situation better, in that we were up for 26
days before a crash. It's still variable however when the problem
crops up, and we crashed after 4 days this last time.
So, the system isn't going to use them any more. The effect here
is that disk writes will take longer, or rather that writes won't be
done independantly of other things. I do not think this is going to
slow Grex down much, if at all.
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keesan
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response 17 of 34:
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Feb 4 13:37 UTC 2006 |
Thanks, STeve.
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naftee
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response 18 of 34:
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Feb 4 22:46 UTC 2006 |
THanks, steVE.
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cross
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response 19 of 34:
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Feb 6 20:34 UTC 2006 |
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nharmon
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response 20 of 34:
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Feb 7 00:46 UTC 2006 |
Because Theo don't want it that way Dan. How dare you question Theo! :P
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steve
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response 21 of 34:
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Feb 7 01:47 UTC 2006 |
FreeBSD has had problems with softupdates as well Dan. I know know
of some folks who have tuned them off for both Open and FreeBSD.
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cross
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response 22 of 34:
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Feb 8 01:05 UTC 2006 |
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nharmon
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response 23 of 34:
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Feb 8 01:42 UTC 2006 |
I remember it well...
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jep
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response 24 of 34:
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Feb 8 02:41 UTC 2006 |
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today ordered United States flags to be
flown at half-staff throughout the state of Michigan today through
Wednesday, February 8, in honor of Coretta Scott King. The Governor s
order follows a similar proclamation issued by the President for federal
buildings.
In addition to ordering flags lowered to half-staff, Granholm will
proclaim Friday, February 10, Coretta Scott King Day in the state of
Michigan.
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