Toolserver-announce October 2012

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Welcome: wikidata
by DaB. 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello all, wikidata has made it on the toolserver today. The database is called "wikidatawiki_p" (don't ask me…) and its is home on s3. Because I guessed that many joins to it will happen in future, I created also copies on all clusters with the exception of s6 and s7 (will happen later); so you can join it in the same way as commons. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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postgresql will vanish from tomcat
by DaB. 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hello all, this is only for the tomcat-users, so most of you can ignore this eMail. To solve TS-1550 [1] I decided to remove the postgresql-jar from tomcat's lib- directory. If you need postgresql in your war, please include it there, because I will remove the postgresql-jar at Friday, 2. November 20 UTC. I will also restart the tomcat-program afterwards. Sincerely, DaB. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1550 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Current progress
by DaB. 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello all, I thought it is time for another status-update, because some things happened in the last days. ==s1-dump== WMF and WMDE finally found an agreement that makes it possible for the toolserver to get dumps again. As a first step the wmf-techs created a s1(enwp)-dump for us. I transfer this dump at the moment to our cluster. Somewhere on the way between Virginia and Amsterdam is a rate-limiting we have to find, but otherwise the hole thing looks quite good. When the dump is there, I will import it on thyme (during the import sql-s1-rr will point to rosemary), than switch rosemary read-only, dump the user- databases, import the user-databases to thyme and let point sql-s1-user to thyme. After that Nosy will dump commons from rosemary to re-create sql-s4- user on z-dat-s4-a. After that I will import the wmf-dump also on rosemary and we should have 2 correct s1-hosts again. Details when something will happen will be in a future eMail. ==TS-future== It was not possible for me the convince the Vorstand of WMDE to create a budget-position for the toolserver for the year 2013. To solve this I have sent a request for the general member meeting few minutes ago. You can find the request at [1] in german language. To summarize the account: -Non-ending of the toolserver. -Buying of 5 additional database-servers for 2012 at the beginning of 2013. -Further extension in 2013 and behind. -WMDE will pay for the hosting if WMF decide it will no longer do that. -WMDE does all it can to convince WMF to provide db-replication and dumps. -WMDE will continue to pay a sysop for the TS. The general meeting can (and I guess will) change the request before it vote about it, so we have to see what we get. ==University== This week my university started again and so I have less time for the toolserver than in the last months. So please accept if some thing will take a little longer. I also can not be in IRC as often as I would like. So if you find a problem or need something: Fill in jira-request and try to reach Nosy. Sincerely, DaB. [1] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:DaB./MV-TS-Antrag -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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/sge62 is gone
by DaB. 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hello all, yesterday I removed ([1],[2]) the last reminders of /sge62 (our old SGE- installation we left in June) from our systems. Until now 3 users had problems with missing SGE-components ([3]). If you have problems too, please take a look at your PATH and if it looks ok, please add a comment to [3] so we can find the problem together. Sincerely, DaB. P.S: I removed only /sge62 — /sge (our current SGE-installation) is good and fine. [1] https://fisheye.toolserver.org/changelog/Puppet?cs=47 [2] https://fisheye.toolserver.org/changelog/Puppet?cs=48 [3] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1544 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Switching of SGE-arch-default at 9. October
by DaB. 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hello all, like announced in July [1] the default arch of SGE will switch soon from solaris to *. Originally that should happen at 1. October, but I forgot the re-announce it and I'm sure some of you forgot about it too. So the switch is hereby announced for 9. October, 20:00 UTC. Jobs that are executed after this timestamp and has no arch-option will run on any host (linux or solaris) instead of a solaris-host. There are 4 ways for you to prepare (sorted): -Make sure that you program runs on linux AND solaris, add "arch=*". -Make sure that you program runs only on linux, add "arch=lx". -Make sure that you program runs only on solaris, add "arch=sol". -Do nothing, pray and see things break. (Somehow I have the feeling most of you will choose 4…, please make me wrong). Sincerely, DaB. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-announce/2012- July/000506.html -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Possible mail-flood
by DaB. 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hello all, doing last check-ups before the switch of SGE's arch tonight I discovered that the linux-hosts had a problem with the mail-system. I fixed the problem, but now all mails that were stored will be delivered to you – so if you receive many emails about SGE-jobs (and other things) that are a few days old, that's nothing to worry. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Maintenance sql-s1-user /rosemary 12th October
by Marlen Caemmerer 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hello, I will add more disk space to rosemary / sql-s1-user on 12th October 19:00-22:00 UTC The user databases for s1 will not be accessible for about two hours. sql-s1-rr (without user tables) will stay available during the maintenance. Cheers nosy

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Maintenance sql-user / host adenia 10th October
by Marlen Caemmerer 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hello, I will add more disk space to adenia / sql-user on 10th October 19:00-21:00 UTC The user databases will not be accessible for about one hour. Cheers nosy

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user-store (temporary) back, willow will rebooted friday
by DaB. 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hello all, like announced we have set up a temporary workaround for the user-store until hemlock is fixed. It should work now, the only exception is willow. I can't mount or umount the user-store on willow and the directory looks strange. So I hereby announce a reboot of willow for tomorrow, Friday, 16:00 UTC. The downtime should be 10 minutes. You can follow the process at [1]. [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1272 -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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/mnt/user-store is away
by DaB. 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Hello all, hemlock had another disc-problem and needed a emergency-reboot. It is back in action now (more or less) but it lost one of its partitions. This partition carries the user-store. A check-up (fsck) is running at the moment and it will take a while to complete (I guess the hole european night). Most things should work, but nothing that needs /mnt/user-store. I will send an update when the user-store is back. Sincerely, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Toolserver-announce October 2012