[Labs-l] Servers using role::labs::mediawiki_vagrant need manual intervention

[Bryan Davis]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The Vagrant managed LXC container setup by
> role::labs::mediawiki_vagrant [0] does not automatically restart when
> the instance is rebooted. Since everything in Labs was rebooted today
> to apply an urgent kernel patch [1] anyone who hasn't yet done so will
> need to manually restart their Vagrant containers:
>
>   $ ssh my-instance.eqiad.wmflabs
>   $ cd /srv/mediawiki-vagrant
>   $ vagrant up
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience. If you have troubles with an instance
> that was working before the reboot (or even one that wasn't), come to
> #wikimedia-labs for help. Feel free to ping me there (bd808) if you
> can't find others available to help. I may not get back to you
> immediately but my bouncer will help me find your questions later if
> I'm offline for lame things like food and sleep.
>
> [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki-Vagrant_in_Labs
> [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2016-January/004247.html

/me performs thread necromancy

Yuvi reminded me of this issue earlier this week. This morning Andrew
merged a change [2] for me that adds an Upstart script that will check
for an existing but stopped MediaWiki-Vagrant LXC container when the
Labs instance boots. If one is found then it will attempt to boot it
using the normal `vagrant up` command. This change should propagate to
all hosts using role::labs::mediawiki_vagrant over the next 20 minutes
or so. If you'd like to make sure that your instances have it, ssh in
and run `sudo puppet agent --test --verbose` to force a Puppet run and
look for the file /etc/init/mediawiki-vagrant.conf afterwards.

[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/271171/

Bryan
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