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maahesis it possible to check out UEC on a thumb drive?02:23
maahesping?03:03
* flaccid yawns03:03
maahesrestate question since I got booted: is there like a live usb version of UEC?03:08
flaccidmaahes: well you can run ubuntu from usb so no need for a diff version03:54
maahesflaccid: well what I mean, is I was looking at the documentation for UEC and it said 40gb minimum.03:55
maahesand I have her...a 4gb flash drive.03:55
flaccidthat may not be enough, give it a go..03:55
whytehorseIs this the appropriate channel to find help with Ubuntu on Amazon cloud?04:07
smwwhytehorse, yes.04:09
smwwhytehorse, although, you were probably looking for a second opinion :-P04:09
smwwhytehorse, the topic should give you a good idea of the topic of the channel.04:10
whytehorsegreat! I am having a lot of probs with amazon, specifically creating an ami... I tried the instructions from ubuntu but it fails with some error about the kernel is not available04:11
smwwhytehorse, how are you trying to make the AMI? Are you basing it off a previous AMI?04:11
whytehorseI downloaded the image from ubuntu for uec 10.0404:12
whytehorsethen I bundle it, upload, register, etc04:12
flaccidmake sure you are specifying the correctiong --region04:12
flaccidus-east-1 is default04:12
whytehorsemy bucket is on us-east-104:13
whytehorseI mean I can complete the process and launch an instance but it crashes because it's loading the worng kernel... so I tried to specify the vmlinuz kernel and amazon doesn't like that04:14
smwwhytehorse, do you have an error message?04:15
smwwhytehorse, a link to the instructions you are following?04:15
whytehorseyes, libudev: udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid argument04:16
whytehorsemountall:mountall.c:3204: Assertion failed in main: udev_monitor = udev_monitor_new_from_netlink (udev, "udev")04:16
whytehorseinit: mountall main process (693) killed by ABRT signal04:16
flaccidyou either use a published AKI or a pvgrub AKI if your AMI is designed for grub boot04:17
whytehorseI am concerned that the published aki are old fedora kernels, is that true?04:18
flaccidthe ones amazon publishes are04:18
flaccidfc8 usually04:18
flaccidyou do know what ubuntu publishes official AMIs ?04:19
whytehorseyes, we tried some of those but they have issues with init consuming 300mb ram04:19
flaccidubuntu/cloud has a bug tracker04:19
whytehorsethe RightImage ones I think04:19
flaccidthats RightScale, not official ubuntu/canonical04:20
smwwhytehorse, cloud.ubuntu.com/ami04:20
smwwhytehorse, those are official.04:20
flaccidwhytehorse: what was the AMI id you used for the RightImage? i can see if this is a currently supported image04:21
whytehorseRightImage_Ubuntu_10.04_i386_v5.5.9.1_EBS (ami-0c4ca665)04:22
flaccidwhytehorse: that image is deprecated. for the latest RightImages, please see http://support.rightscale.com/18-Release_Notes/OS_and_Software_Package_Support#RightScale_MultiCloud_Images and http://oss.rightscale.me/04:23
whytehorseIt WORKED!!! Sweet!04:27
whytehorsethank you!!!04:27
whytehorsehaha I got kernel 2.6.32 :004:27
flaccidusing the latest/current images is a general rule of thumb in the cloud04:29
whytehorseam I stuck with this kernel forever or can I set up a server which updates the kernel through apt?04:31
flaccidif it is pv grub, you can install whatever linux-image and reboot04:31
flaccidif its not a pvgrub aki, you can't do any kernel changes04:32
whytehorseoic... which one is a pvgrub aki? It doesn't tell me on that site you gave04:33
flaccidthere are many04:33
whytehorseis ubuntu just using the fedora kernel?04:48
flaccidno, the latest/natty should be using pvgrub and thus the native kernel04:49
flaccidyou can check in console output04:49
flaccidor just look at the name/desc of the AKI..04:49
flaccidand of course uname -a04:49
whytehorseok, so there's something taking up 400MB ram, I believe it's console-kit-daemon04:50
whytehorseer 117MB04:51
whytehorseand syslog is 127MB04:51
whytehorseon a micro instance that only leaves 200mb for other stuff to run on04:53
flaccidcould just be memory caching04:58
flaccidbut yeah ubuntu is generally bloaty like that04:58
whytehorsehmmm, I do realize memory is cheap but I can't imagine 400MB used up on a command-line server...05:06
whytehorseis this a bug in the amd64 server?05:08
flaccidprobably; ubuntu is pretty buggy05:09
flaccidi'd be interested to see how you go on debian with one of these http://support.rightscale.com/21-Community/RightScale_OSS#Debian_GNU.2fLinux_MultiCloud_Images05:10
whytehorseweird, I get the same 400MB used on Debian too05:23
flaccidprobably quite normal. linux kernel takes advantage of memory via caching to maxmise performance from available memory05:28
whytehorselooks like the 32 bit version uses only 180MB ram08:18
flaccidthats due to address space08:28
flaccidnot sure why you are still measuring things in this way08:28
kim0Morning everyone09:14
whytehorseI'm just trying to figure out how much ram to allocate when creating servers09:20
whytehorseso it's important to know that 400MB is used by the system09:21
koolhead11|afkhi all09:26
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koolhead11kim0, :D10:07
kim0koolhead11: hey man10:07
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mmarschallHi, I try to use the 32-bit ebs AMI in eu-west-1 region (ami-4090a634) with a custom kernel. Adding the generic-pae kernel to /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooting hangs the machine. I found that the ami is using aki‐4deec439, which is said to be the right one for instance storage and aki‐4deec433 should be used for ebs. Might that be the issue? Thanks...10:41
kim0wonder why do you need the custom kernel10:49
mmarschallI want to use ksplice uptrack for rebootless kernel upgrades. They do not support ubuntu 10.04 LTS :-(10:50
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kim0= Start Ensemble cloud meeting -19:02
kim0Hi everyone19:02
kim0Got a few updates19:02
kim0from my side19:02
kim0Going quickly .. We now have a tutorial for authoring a formula Yaay "https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs/write-formula.html"19:02
niemeyerWoohay!19:03
kim0Going through this a few bugs were opened and squashed19:03
kim0So Ensemble now has much better debug-hooks functionality19:03
niemeyerkim0: Yeah, seriously.. thanks a lot for your help feeding the issues back onto the team19:03
kim0tmux is now being used instead of screen, things seem to work reliably19:03
kim0Also recovering from install hook errors are now handled in a better way19:04
kim0On a smaller scale, the mysql example formula was fixed temporarily at least, to offer login details of already created DBs19:04
kim0On another note19:04
kim0Clint published a very good introductory article on the topic of What is Ensemble19:05
kim0http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/06/so-what-is-ensemble-anyway/19:05
kim0I pushed it to multiple online venues .. it made its way to a few smaller online venues however unfortunately, it didn't get through most of the big ones .. I will retry with different tactics however19:06
kim0Other than that .. I've started reaching out to the MediaWiki community19:06
kim0since that's the one where we have fairly good formulas19:06
kim0posted today on MediaWiki forums and mailing list19:06
niemeyerOh, nice19:07
kim0demo'ing quickly what Ensemble is capable of19:07
niemeyerkim0: What was the reaction so far?19:07
kim0and linking to Clint's article and the main project page19:07
kim0well it was a couple of hours back .. only a single reply so far adding a few links19:07
kim0I will keep beating the horse however (in a good way)19:07
kim0:)19:07
niemeyerkim0: Cool :)19:08
kim0um .. that's mostly it for me on my side .. Any cool code updates? I see some bugs about resolving deps and ec2 firewall ?19:08
niemeyerkim0: Hmmm19:09
hazmatkim0, the open/close port work and service-config are ongoing but nearing completion19:09
kim0Very cool19:10
hazmatkim0, the autoresolving dependency prototype was merged for a historical artifact, but removed pending work on the repository (the prototype was against a local repository directory)19:10
niemeyerkim0: Yeah, I think next week will be more exciting from a news perspective19:10
kim0a ha19:10
niemeyerkim0: Unfortunately the few things we have in progress still haven't landed19:10
kim0Ok great19:10
kim0One final point I'd like to discuss19:11
niemeyerOk19:11
kim0is having a running list of bitesized bugs ..19:11
kim0I'll repaste from #ubuntu-ensemble19:11
kim0I'll start a campaign to go out and get people interested in contributing to Ensemble. For that, we'd probably need a list of bitesized bugs that we can point people to19:11
kim0This has worked well for Unity, so hopefully for us as well19:11
kim0so we'd need a tag a few bugs as "bitesized". Or maybe file new bugs if appropriate. This can be easy to fix bugs, or nice to haves that are not too uegent for the team and are low barrier for a newcomer19:11
kim0if we can have 10-15 bugs tagged/created, that'd be awesome19:11
kim0I'll probably file some new bugs for important formulas I'd like to see written, and I'll pimp them to the respective communities. But where I need the help most, is code bugs (improve test coverage, fix a small bug ..etc)19:11
kim0that's it .. what do you guys think19:11
hazmatkim0, so effectively a level of effort/difficult tag on the bugs for  bug 'bites'?19:12
hazmats/difficulty19:12
kim0hazmat: yes effectively something you can resolve in less than an hour :)19:12
kim0it's a learning on-ramp for newcomers19:12
niemeyerkim0: That sounds reasonable19:12
kim0improving the test suite .. better docs .. added minor functionality ...etc19:13
kim0all good targets19:13
niemeyerkim0: Yeah, we have quite a few things which are not really big issues at the moment19:13
niemeyerkim0: If you find someone who'd be interested, please point us towards the IRC/ML19:13
niemeyerkim0: We can easily pin out tasks19:13
kim0niemeyer: hmm yeah sure will .. but it'd be great to have the written list of bugs19:14
kim0since just viewing them, can make someone say "I can do that"19:14
niemeyerkim0: We have a list of bugs:19:14
niemeyerhttp://ensemble.ubuntu.com/kanban/dublin.html19:14
kim0yes, we just need to tag the easy ones with bitesized19:14
kim0:)19:14
kim0so we always have a running list of newcomer friendly bugs19:15
niemeyerkim0: No need for tagging at this point..19:15
kim0what do you think so19:15
niemeyerkim0: E.g.19:15
niemeyer"No README"19:15
niemeyerkim0: It's there, in the list19:15
kim0Ok better deal19:16
niemeyerkim0: Test should put zk log to /dev/null or tempfile by default19:16
niemeyerensemble terminate-machines should have an --all-unused option19:16
kim0I'll try to tag what I think looks easy to me .. then someone reviews ?19:16
niemeyerkim0: Etc..19:16
niemeyerkim0: If you find people, we have the bugs ;-)19:16
kim0I want to have a list to show off .. that itself helps19:16
niemeyerkim0: What I mean is that I don't think a process for this is needed, yet19:16
niemeyerkim0: Find the people, and we create a process around it19:16
niemeyerkim0: I've just pointed out three bugs above..19:17
kim0Yeah, I'm sure you know all of em19:17
niemeyerkim0: We all do.. the URL above has the full list19:17
kim0the easy ones I meant19:17
niemeyerkim0: Ok, hold on19:18
* kim0 holds on19:18
niemeyerkim0: #684573, #781920, #754318, #716401, #769036, #76493819:19
kim0oh that's fast!19:19
* kim0 hugs niemeyer :)19:19
niemeyerkim0: Let's get these fixed.. and then we look at a process19:19
kim0Awesome that's all I asked for19:19
kim0Great stuff .. that should be about everything19:19
niemeyerkim0: Cool, that's a deal then :-)19:20
kim0Thanks everyone19:20
kim0o/19:20
kim0enjoy hacking19:20
niemeyerkim0: Thank you!19:20
kim0= Meeting end =19:20
kim0If anyone is around looking at this, not sure what this is about .. ping me immediately :)19:21
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d122was there an ensemble class?23:00
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