[Labs-announce] Reminder: Labs instance security reboots on Thursday, 2016-02-18 at 18:00 UTC

[Andrew Bogott]

Reminder:  These reboots will start happening in 30 minutes.

On 2/16/16 10:24 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Due to a security update in glibc, we need to reboot all labs 
> instances and virt hosts. The updates are currently being installed on 
> all instances and the reboots will start at 18:00 UTC (10 AM in 
> California) on Thursday.
>
> A reboot is needed since the updated glibc packages are only effective 
> once all processes using glibc have been restarted, and virtually all 
> processes use glibc.
>
> If you're running a labs instance which for some reason should not be 
> rebooted currently, please email me directly with the details. We will 
> do our best to insulate toollabs jobs from this reboot, but some 
> long-running jobs may need to be restarted by hand after the reboots.
>
> -Andrew
>