[Labs-announce] IMPORTANT: rolling reboots today

[Andrew Bogott]

On 1/20/16 12:06 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> In response to a new kernel exploit revealed today, I will be 
> upgrading and rebooting all labs VMs today.  We'll be running a 
> dist-upgrade on all reachable labs instances, then rebooting the virt 
> hosts (which will, in turn, reboot the associated labs vms.) Total 
> downtime for any given instance should only be 5-10 minutes, but you 
> will need to restart services and such after the restart.
Update -- getting staged for reboot is taking much longer than 
expected.  The reboots will most likely happen tomorrow 2016-12-21, at 
around 17:00 UTC.

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> We'll do our best to ensure that tools survive the reboots -- more on 
> that as the day develops.
>
> -Andrew
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