Intervention report 2017-01-12: Difference between revisions
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- Did a full update of arch on ps1auth. | - Did a full update of arch on ps1auth. | ||
- Only some stuff got through | - Only some stuff got through | ||
- Had to disable GPG signing of packages for that using sed to modify pacman.conf, because nothing else was working | - Had to disable GPG signing of packages for that using sed to modify pacman.conf, because nothing else was working | ||
- Did the update | - Did the update | ||
- Rebooted bob, resolved the initial problem of machines not logging, but I had to do that two times | - Rebooted bob, resolved the initial problem of machines not logging, but I had to do that two times | ||
- Had to reconfigure network because interface name changed | - Had to reconfigure network because interface name changed | ||
- As python was updated had to recreate the virtualenv of ps1auth | - As python was updated had to recreate the virtualenv of ps1auth | ||
- Had to update some packages (beautifoulsoup4, kombu add django-ldap something) because they failed with the new python | - Had to update some packages (beautifoulsoup4, kombu add django-ldap something) because they failed with the new python | ||
- Rebooted the machine to be sure everything was ok | - Rebooted the machine to be sure everything was ok | ||
- Got home. | - Got home. | ||
= How to avoid the problem in the future = | |||
- Well I had to learn how things worked on the fly. We plan on updating the | - Well I had to learn how things worked on the fly. We plan on updating the | ||
infrastructure to more maintenable systems (arch was a big problem here as it | infrastructure to more maintenable systems (arch was a big problem here as it | ||
was not updated for a long time). | was not updated for a long time). | ||
- Have emergency clone VMs to restore quickly (if one has to leave before finishing upgrade/maintenance etc)? | - Have emergency clone VMs to restore quickly (if one has to leave before finishing upgrade/maintenance etc)? | ||
