[Labs-announce] IMPORTANT: Reboots (again!) on Wednesday

Andrew Bogott abogott at wikimedia.org
Wed Mar 23 22:42:20 UTC 2016


This is now done; all labs services should be back to normal.  As 
always, it's a good idea to poke at your tools and make sure there 
aren't jobs that need restarting.

-Andrew

On 3/23/16 8:23 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> Reminder: This is happening today, starting in about 40 minutes.
>
> On 3/18/16 1:58 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
>> Yet another kernel exploit turned up this week, which means another 
>> round of kernel updates and reboots. All labs instances will be 
>> rebooted (at various and unpredictable times) this Wednesday, 
>> 2016-03-23, beginning around 14:00 UTC.
>>
>>    We're getting pretty good at this :(  We'll pool- and de-pool exec 
>> nodes as needed to minimize surprise endings for ToolLabs jobs, but 
>> as usual there will be some stragglers that get cut short or don't 
>> get restarted properly.  Keep an eye out on Wednesday, and let us 
>> know on IRC if you run into trouble.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>




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