that’s whacked

(grommit) moving homes…

Sunday, Dec 3. 2006  –  Category: Musings

today was the day i moved grommit…

so the actual physical move from CCCP @ Hurricane Electric to Cernio @ UnitedLayer (in 200 Paul) went pretty smoothly once I figured out to setup the rails.

What @)#(*#@)(%’d things up was that I installed a bunch of patches before I shut down, figuring… since I was shutting down, why not update the system while I was at it.

This was a good idea, but alas…one that came back to bite me in the rear most strongly.

Two patches gave me hell, specifically:

120544-06 which “fixed” Apache2 so that it recognised large (>2GB) files. This is actually a good fix, but it necessitates that all modules need to be compiled with a certain flag. I didn’t have time to rebuild it, so I ended up backing out the patch to workaround this. Specifically, the patch fixed 6373222 which resulted in me hitting 6492784.

The other patch which gave me hell was 122663-06, which resulted in me hitting 6488656. This patch broke zones, so none of grommit’s zones booted up, claiming insufficient privileges. This meant that any new patches couldn’t be applied, since zones wouldn’t boot. Simple, I’ll just back out the patch. Nope… you can’t backout the patch since zones won’t boot. Uggggghhhh. I ended up glomming libzonecfg.so.1 out of the undo.Z to let me back this patch out. What a pain… don’t we test these patches before we ship them out?