[X2Go-Project] [X2Go-User] Japsand Maintenance Aftermath a.k.a. "Lessons Learned"

Robert Dinse nanook at eskimo.com
Thu Jun 25 00:40:42 CEST 2015


      It is working now, but wasn't at the time I posted.

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On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Michael DePaulo wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:31:06 -0400
> From: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>,
>     "x2go-project at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-project at lists.x2go.org>,
>     "x2go-dev at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-dev at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Japsand Maintenance Aftermath a.k.a.
>     "Lessons Learned"
> 
> Right now, I am able to connect to japsand fine.
> 1. That wiki URL loads successfully.
> 2. I connected to an LXDE X2Go session (only X2Go developers have access.)
> 3. I connected to an rdesktop session to the WinBuilder VM (although
> someone else was already logged in, so I canceled.)
>
> -Mike#2
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>
>>      It would seem the Wiki is still down, when I try to go to:
>>
>>         http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:usage:pyhoca-gui
>>
>>      I get cannot connect to server.
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>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:25:33 +0200
>>> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
>>> Reply-To: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
>>> To: "x2go-project at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-project at lists.x2go.org>,
>>>     "x2go-dev at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-dev at lists.x2go.org>,
>>>     "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
>>> Subject: [X2Go-User] Japsand Maintenance Aftermath a.k.a. "Lessons
>>> Learned"
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Due to a hanging rm process, we had to restart the server today.
>>>
>>> After rebooting the machine, it was decided to also update the system to
>>> the
>>> latest packages version, but still staying on Debian Wheezy (for now.)
>>>
>>> The server is using a custom kernel module provided by Realtek for its
>>> RTL8168
>>> ethernet NIC. An in-kernel driver is available, but proved to be too
>>> unreliable,
>>> leading to frequent network outages and even machine crashes whenever the
>>> network IO load was higher than a few hundred KB/s. The hosting provider
>>> has a
>>> wiki entry for this issue at this location:
>>> http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Installation_des_r8168-Treibers/en
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the current driver version as provided by Realtek, 8.040,
>>> seems
>>> to be incompatible with the old 3.2.0-4-amd64 (3.2.68-1+deb7u2) kernel
>>> provided
>>> by Debian.
>>>
>>> As of writing this, I do not know what happened exactly, but most likely
>>> the
>>> module caused a kernel panic during bootup.
>>>
>>> Reverting to an older version, 8.037, fixed this issue and let the server
>>> boot
>>> up correctly again. For future maintenance work, please use this older
>>> version,
>>> at least on Debian Wheezy.
>>>
>>> I put the module source code into /usr/src and created a symlink from
>>> /usr/src/r8168-current to /usr/src/r8168-8.037.00.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Other updated packages include Java (version 7 co-installed, the
>>> "alternatives"
>>> symlink now point to version 7 instead of 6) and Jenkins, including its
>>> plugins.
>>>
>>> A test build run suggests the Jenkins update was successful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mihai
>>>
>>>
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