[Labs-l] labs instance can't find LDAP server after upgrade

[Ryan Lane]

I've actually just removed the ability to do upgrades:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/36238/

It'll go into affect on instances in about an hour or so.


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You shouldn't upgrade instances. You should always make a new instance and
> transition stuff. This is why we emphasize puppetization. It's likely your
> instance is permanently broken...
>
> I'll try to add something to the instances warning people not to upgrade,
> but there's likely nothing I can do about your current broken instance. I
> may be able to log in as root to rescue any files you may need that are
> local to the instance, though.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>wrote:
>
>> Hey Ryan!
>>
>> Bad news... We had a lucid instance running on labs (wikidata-dev-3). As
>> it had old program versions compared to wikidata.org I did an upgrade to
>> precise. I kept all settings in their installed versions. I ended up
>> with a system that I can't connect to via ssh. :(
>> According to the log output in labsconsole (below), it couldn't find the
>> LDAP server. Can you help me fix this please? (In Nagios, it is green,
>> partly "flapping between states".)
>>
>> Thanks for any advice!
>> Best, Silke
>>
>>
>> ---8<-----8<-----8<---
>>
>> Strange things in the log:
>>
>> Nov 30 17:07:01 i-00000225 nslcd[1103]: [9f82cd]
>> <group/member="wikidata"> failed to bind to LDAP server
>> ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP server: Transport endpoint is not
>> connected
>> Nov 30 17:07:01 i-00000225 nslcd[1103]: [9f82cd]
>> <group/member="wikidata"> no available LDAP server found: Can't contact
>> LDAP server
>> Nov 30 17:07:01 i-00000225 nslcd[1103]: [9f82cd]
>> <group/member="wikidata"> no available LDAP server found: Server is
>> unavailable
>>
>> Nov 30 17:12:25 i-00000225 nslcd[1182]: [b71efb] <passwd="smeyer">
>> failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can't contact LDAP
>> server: Transport endpoint is not connected
>> Nov 30 17:12:25 i-00000225 nslcd[1182]: [b71efb] <passwd="smeyer"> no
>> available LDAP server found: Can't contact LDAP server
>>
>>
>> ---8<-----8<-----8<---
>>
>>
>> --
>> Silke Meyer
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>>
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