(grommit) moving homes…
December 3rd, 2006 Stephen Lau
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?
[tags: Rant]
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Geoff Arnold | December 4th, 2006 at 00:12
Ouch. That explains a lot.
The zone-breaker patch sounds particularly nasty. Do you have a rubber chicken to hang on the offender’s door?
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By the way, if we ever have to do this again, please remind me to log in to everydns.net a few days beforehand, so I can adjust my TTL down from 86400 to 3600. That way when I eventually switch the DNS addresses, the change will propagate much quicker….
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Mads | December 4th, 2006 at 08:22
I’ve been hit by the zone breaker as well - http://soulfood.dk/archives/2006/11/19/T153102/index.html - but that’s been broken for ages.
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One more thing…. After the switchover I had intermittent difficulty sending and receiving email through mail.grommit.com. I switched my client account to use geoffarnold.com for both IMAP and SMTP, and it’s working much better.
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Site update « Geoff&hellip | December 5th, 2006 at 00:08
[...] For a variety of reasons, Steve decided to move grommit to a new co-location center. The move was scheduled for Sunday afternoon (PST), and we all had plenty of time to prepare for it. As Steve describes in his blog, the move itself went OK, but he was caught out by a couple of bad Solaris patches that he decided to install. However by about 9 o’clock everything was up and running. [...]
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