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SpamapSshade34321: apache's config is extremely complex. Its hard to tell what is wrong without understanding your whole config.00:14
shade34321SpamapS: ok, thanks. I don't even know the entire config, took it over and haven't had a chance to look at it much, if you have any questions about it I will try my best to answer them00:15
lifelessSpamapS: and even then .... ..00:17
uvirtbotNew bug: #912066 in cloud-init "/etc/fstab contains incorrect device for swap partition when no ephemeral disk present." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91206600:21
uvirtbotNew bug: #912069 in python-novaclient (main) "nova client does not work, fails to import argparse library" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91206900:21
shade34321does apache have a irc channel?00:21
SpamapSshade34321: You probably want to make sure that there are no 'Options' lines with 'Indexes' in the listanywhere00:22
shade34321hmm...question...Options Indexes and Options -Indexes are not the same thing are they?00:24
philpemshade34321, first one enables, second one disables00:25
philpemmost specific takes priority00:25
shade34321<--idiot00:25
shade34321thanks00:25
philpemno, the word you're looking for is "newbie", or possibly "greenhorn".00:26
philpemthe only stupid question is the one you didn't ask.00:26
SpamapSshade34321: Options -Indexes should turn it off00:26
shade34321I've been looking at this to long...lol...I kept reading about -Indexes and then seeing Indexes and not seeing the difference00:26
shade34321that it did00:26
shade34321now to see if everythign else works right00:26
shade34321o.O00:26
SpamapSshade34321: the real question is why did it get turned on.00:26
philpemon the specificity rule, if you have Options Indexes set for /var/www, then clear it for /var/www/images, images will be unindexed but everything else will be indexed00:26
shade34321thanks for the help!00:26
* SpamapS suggests version control for configs.. *soon*.. ;)00:27
philpemSpamapS, some web developers turn it on to be lazy... I have it set on my development servers, and for only one directory (temp) on the release server00:27
shade34321<--took over last may and I haven't touched any config stuff and the people who did do this graduated and will not answer questions as to why certain things are the way they are00:27
philpemwell.. release server == my website00:27
philpemI already have version control for configs -- I use Mercurial to do it :)00:28
shade34321i've actually had a lot of questions for them since my knowledge is fragmented to get told to google it00:28
shade34321:)00:28
philpemhg addrem / hg commit before I change anything in /etc, then hg commit after I change it. something goes wrong, I hg up -C to the rev before I changed it.00:28
philpemI can roll everything back to when I last installed or upgraded if I need to.00:28
philpemOr trundle through the change history and see what I changed, when, and why.00:29
philpem"Don't explain what you did, you can get that from the change history and deltas. Instead, explain what the problem was and why you fixed it that way."00:30
philpem"Years after you leave, your colleagues will praise you for your foresight, and thank the Gods of Computing that you were working on their codebase. Instead of, you know, wishing you a nasty end involving sharks with frickin' laser beams."00:31
Kyle__philpem: Sure you're not talking about my predecessor at this job? For the last part.00:32
shade34321or mine?00:33
Kyle__philpem: But you forgot, sharks with laser beams, and syphallis.00:33
shade34321lol00:33
Kyle__I'm setting up a server with multiple-heads, to put up interesting graphs of what's going on on the network (manager distractors).  Does ubuntu-server's X-config work just like the desktop config?00:35
philpemMy goal at work: to have people remember me as "the one guy in the SE department who bothered to document his code, and write decent commit comments"00:35
philpemKyle__, should do.00:35
philpeminstall ubuntu-desktop for GNOME3, kubuntu-desktop for KDE, xubuntu-desktop for XFCE.00:35
philpemthat'll pretty much turn an Ubuntu Server box into a desktop00:35
philpemor just pick the app you want and install it... you can run X without a window manager but it isn't fun :)00:36
Kyle__philpem: Lofty goal.  I was teased heavily for 6 months about commiting ever peice of documentation to a wiki.  Then cursed by other departments when it was documented that we did _EVERYTHING_ right on our side, thank you very much.  Then thanked heartily when I left, for leaving the new sysadmin with viable, up-to-date documentation :)00:36
philpemif you want a manager distractor and don't care for functionality, you probably want GNOME3 (he says, only half joking, and with a grin like the Cheshire Cat's)00:36
Kyle__philpem: Heh.  Gnome3 would eat up all the CPU.  I'm going to generate some little graphs via a lightweight ruby script and toss them up as X backgrounds, rotating through the monitors periodically.00:38
philpemKyle__, You haven't seen my code... 1:1 code:comment ratio, and anything with a public API has Doxygen comments.00:38
philpemyou can throw Doxygen at it, and get fully searchable and *useful* documentation.00:39
Kyle__Wowzers.00:39
philpemevery so often I read through the docs and make sure I haven't made any silly mistakes, so there are commits and CRs along the lines of "Fix stupid documentation mistake: open_device_fast does NOT return an int, it returns an E_CT_ERROR_CODE!"00:40
philpemMy manager used to ask why I was "filling the CR database up" with those. Until one of the other developers asked him to pass along a message: "Can you ask Phil if he's got time to document ES_CP_VIDEO_ENGINE? I know it's not his code, but his documentation rocks!"00:41
Kyle__Sweeet.00:41
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SpamapSKyle__: re the manager distractor.. if I were in your situation, I'd do all the graphics w/ HTML and just run a browser fullscreen.00:50
SpamapSKyle__: backgrounds and X programming seem like overkill for a simple rotating image. Also, ratpoison should suffice for your window management needs. :)00:50
Kyle__SpamapS: Oh, not real X programming, just tossing up a background with a CLI program.  Backgrounds in X are held in graphics memory, and take up zero CPU.  Can't say that about firefox or webkit, even when they're idle.00:55
Kyle__SpamapS: Ratpoison?  Humm.  Don't you need something to put that on, so the manager eats it?00:55
SpamapSKyle__: how crappy is this box you're putting this on that you're worried about most likely about 20MB of memory?00:55
SpamapSKyle__: and if you do it w/ HTML you can let the managers run it on their desks, and not even come over to look at the distractors ;)00:56
Kyle__SpamapS: Not crappy at all, but it's going to serve as the head of an openstack cluster.  If my experience with eucalpytus is a judge, this system will occasionaly swap under load, up until I get ~24GB of ram into it.00:57
SpamapSKyle__: do not compare openstack to eucalyptus so quickly. ;) openstack is the anti-euca when it comes to scaling00:58
Kyle__SpamapS: God I hope so.  That's why we switched when moving from our proof-of-concept hardware to real hardware.00:58
* Kyle__ loves academia: you couldn't pull a change like that in business so quickly.00:58
SpamapSerr00:59
SpamapSthats so not true of successful businesses.00:59
shade34321Kyle__: what is this cluster going to be used for if you don't mind me asking?00:59
SpamapSKyle__: successful businesses know when to stop shovelling money into a hole just as fast as academics.01:00
Kyle__shade34321: For students, it will run web-apps, or whatever server-code they're writing for class.  1-1 or 1-many student to vm ratio.  Also will be used for sysadmin classes.  MOre importantly, I'll spin down the student VMs at night, and be running hadoop and nexus jobs on it :)01:00
shade34321nice01:01
Kyle__SpamapS: Yes, but usually you'd have to re-do the proof of concent with the new software, before getting the new hardware.  At least that's what I've seen.01:01
shade34321at my job I'm in charge of 3 HPC clusters, two running slurm, one running pbs01:01
SpamapSKyle__: depends on how burdened with big and clunky red tape the business is.01:02
Kyle__shade34321: pbs?01:02
shade34321one sec and ill give a link01:02
Kyle__SpamapS: and how flush the manager running the project is feeling, coupled with their feelings towards the employee/contractor.01:03
Kyle__These Dell C5000s are neat.  Like having 12 blades in 2 U.  Sadly without the fancy network interconnect, but a fraction of the price.01:04
Kyle__Sorry, 3 u.01:06
shade34321sorry....to many links01:06
Kyle__Heh.01:06
shade34321stands for Portable Batch System and it's used in unison with torque and maui01:06
shade34321it's for academic research, AE to be exact01:07
shade34321currently the boss wants to get a new cluster since our main one is dying:(01:07
Kyle__Neat.01:07
Kyle__Shame mosix isn't still going strong.01:08
shade34321mosix?01:08
Kyle__How big of a cluster, if I can pry?01:08
Kyle__Rigth now I'm feeling lucky to have these 96 cores, but I know that's small potatoes.01:08
shade34321one of them is about to be decommissioned, it's really old and we've lost 60% of the nodes, one is 256 nodes with 2 dual cores procs(it's an IBM machine from early 2000's) and the other is a 30 node cluster with dual quad core xeons01:09
SpamapSmosix was a mess01:09
SpamapSneat idea01:09
SpamapSbut too naive01:09
shade34321lol01:09
Kyle__SpamapS: Yea, but if they hadn't tanked, it may have been georgous by now.01:10
shade34321our big cluster, with 1024 cores is currently at 214 active nodes at 856 cores:(01:10
shade34321his current path is he wants to stick as many cores per node as he can01:11
Kyle__shade34321: Yea.  Small university, smaller budget.  But if this pans out the budgets of next year and years after may get funneled right into my racks!01:11
shade34321so 4 socket boards:D01:11
shade34321understandable01:11
SpamapSKyle__: I'm not sure I agree.. the idea ignored things like map/reduce entirely and focused just on trying to magically make multi-processing scale out.01:11
Kyle__shade34321: Wow does that sound fun.01:11
shade34321the new opterons though seem a flop, our origianl idea so it'd be 64 cores per board01:12
shade34321*seem to be a flop01:12
SpamapSKyle__: hadoop and its map/reduce cousins work because they acknowledge that big data requires specific strategies to break it up.01:12
Kyle__SpamapS: Which for some jobs is the easiest way of comprehending them.  If you can get it "good-enough" it's worth it to trade some computational efficiency for programmer efficiency.01:12
* Kyle__ nods01:12
shade34321and we're currently talking over the new intel ones with 10 cores01:12
Kyle__shade34321: The i series xenons?  Why did I think they were at 12?01:13
shade34321b/c they should be?01:13
SpamapSI think all the mosix-friendly problems can be handled simply by writing generic workers and communicating jobs to them via message queues.01:13
* SpamapS got really excited about mosix when he first saw it tho01:13
shade34321since we're talking about clusters...i have a question for you guys01:14
Kyle__SpamapS: Especially compared to the PVM code I did for an undergrad project, it seemed like mana from hevan.01:14
shade34321our clusteres are running RHEL or CentOS(same difference) and currently we don't seem to have any temp monitoring software/hardware in place01:15
SpamapSYeah, definitely nicer to just fork and run than have to get into PVM muck01:15
shade34321what do you guys recomend for it?01:15
Kyle__shade34321: You tried the traditional i2c sensor package?  I forget what it's called in centos, been awhile since I tried it.  It never recognized the hardware in the Dells at my last gig, but once in awhile it would on nicer hardware.01:16
shade34321well our dells our r410's with an IBM x3550 mgt node, home built cluster built before I arrived01:17
shade34321and the IBM are all IBM x3550 nodes or some variant, don't reemember exact numbers01:17
shade34321wanted to use the iDRAC stuff from Dell but the head node stands in my way:/01:17
* SpamapS shuts down for the day01:17
Kyle__shade34321: See if the dells came with a DRAC or iDRAC.  Dell Remote Access Console.  They usually share the first NIC, and have a web-page that you can power-off or on the box from, and give sensor readouts.01:17
Kyle__Heh.01:18
SpamapSKyle__: good luck. There are a lot of openstack experts in here and in #openstack ... don't hesitate to ask. :)01:18
Kyle__SpamapS: Thanks!01:18
shade34321Kyle__: I couldn't find iDRAC installed but again I don't want to manually check all 30 nodes01:18
Kyle__shade34321: Get into the network, behind the head-node.  See if the DRAC/iDRACs in your dells supporrt SNMP.  If they do, you should be able to pull the sensor data using snmpget from the head-node.01:18
Kyle__is there a DHCP server?01:19
shade34321I want to say it's the head node01:19
Kyle__Hey, some people hate DHCP (though I don't know why)01:19
Kyle__Check for a bunch of DHCP requests that aren't your nodes.  Could be DRACs.  On some dells you have to enable it from the BIOS first though.01:20
shade34321I'll take a look into it tmr afternoon when I stop by01:20
shade34321and see what I can find, though last time I looked I couldn't find a drac option on start up...though I did not check the bios01:21
Kyle__Good luck.  I should head out myself01:21
* Kyle__ waves01:21
shade34321thanks01:21
shade34321night01:21
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twbDoes dnsmasq have an upstream VCS?   I can't find it.04:26
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xInterlopeR777x!ubuntu06:32
ubottuUbuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too! - Also see http://www.ubuntu.com06:32
twbre dnsmasq -- never mind, I isolated the fault on my own.06:33
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uvirtbotNew bug: #912138 in samba (main) "smbd crashed with SIGABRT in dcerpc_lsa_lookup_names4() (dup-of: 911449)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91213806:56
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VivekHi08:12
VivekI am facing issues with Enlisting a system at install time with the Ubuntu Orchestra Server.08:12
VivekThe step it fails is select and install software.08:12
shangVivek: are you doing that from the server CD?08:16
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VivekYes I am doing it from the server cd.09:22
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VivekThe ubuntu client does not get authenticated to the ubuntu orchestra server.09:25
eagles0513875hey guys i am a bit lost im trying to create a new install on a remote server via kvm and i want to setup lvm i have a root partition which isnt part of the lvm and 960gb of free space which i want to setup as a logical volume09:46
eagles0513875what are the steps to do this as i am a bit lost09:47
koolhead17hi all09:47
atari2600ahey10:09
atari2600awhat's the default location for KVM images?10:09
atari2600aI'm setting up a server on my desktop & I want to give the VM its own partition & the more vanilla I do it now the easier it'll be when I end up wiping my / partition whenever10:10
koolhead17!virt-manager10:11
koolhead17atari2600a: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/VirtManager  see if this is what you need10:12
atari2600aplease don't be cryptic10:12
koolhead17!virtmanager10:12
atari2600ait's a simple question & if I can get this done BEFORE I create the image it'll make everyone's life easier10:12
jamespagemorning10:15
Davieyhey jamespage !!10:16
jamespagegudday Daviey!10:16
atari2600aI'm...gonna go10:17
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lynxmanmorning o/10:40
lynxmanjamespage: morning sir ;)10:41
koolhead17hey Daviey jamespage  :)10:41
koolhead17elhoo lynxman10:41
lynxmanDaviey: morning! happy new year ;)10:44
Davieyhey lynxman, trust you had a good one?10:46
lynxmanDaviey: internet disconnection for 2 weeks, it was very good indeed, how about you?10:47
Davieylynxman: wow, how did you cope?10:51
lynxmanDaviey: I did indeed :)10:52
lynxmanDaviey: didn't know I could but it definitely was refreshing :)10:53
Davieylynxman: sounds like an ordeal11:05
lynxmanDaviey: :)11:06
uvirtbotNew bug: #912212 in samba (main) "package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package samba is not ready for configuration  cannot configure (current status `half-installed') - version upgrade from 10.04 LTS to 10.10 to 11.04.  various errors flashed up during upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91221212:03
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zulmorning12:46
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lynxmanzul: morningtons13:24
uvirtbotNew bug: #911888 in samba (main) "gvfsd-smb-browse crashed with SIGSEGV in debug_lookup_classname_int()" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91188813:30
uvirtbotNew bug: #912254 in drbd8 (main) "Please upgrade to 8.3.12 for Precise" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91225413:35
zullynxman: not exact internet disconnection though :)13:39
Deathvalley122is it a bad sign of a bad drive when you get I/O error when trying to set up lvm?13:39
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DavieySpamapS: Upgradibg oneiric -> precise, mysql-server has asked me for the password 3 times, which i keep leaving blank14:21
Daviey"If this field is left blank, the password will not be changed"14:22
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lynxmanDaviey: Trying to come back slowly, do you remember the nomenclature we were talking about for a package including the git last checkout hash into its name?15:09
lynxmanDaviey: I think it was package-N.N+git~checkouthash right?15:09
Davieylynxman: date 20120105-shorthash is better IMO.15:11
lynxmanDaviey: ah that's the one, thanks :)15:12
Davieydate will always increment in value, hash will not.15:12
Davieyperhaps s/-/.15:12
lynxmanDaviey: indeed, that was the issue15:13
lynxmanDaviey: building new mcollective-plugins, so the version will be 0.0.0~git20120105-9b90c2b-0ubuntu115:13
Davieylynxman: so one exampe, mythtv (2:0.24.0+fixes.20111207.40f3bae-0ubuntu1)15:13
lynxmanDaviey: would that be okay? :)15:13
lynxmanDaviey: ah ok, dot15:13
Davieyyeah, but maybe use a . instead of -15:14
Davieywinner15:14
lynxmanDaviey: :)15:14
stgraberhallyn: around?15:14
hallynstgraber: sneaking off soon for breakfast.  what's up?15:15
stgraberhallyn: was wondering if you had an idea why we don't get a console on /dev/console with a clean precise container15:16
stgraberhallyn: getty is spawned but nothing shows up15:16
stgraberhallyn: also lxc-console seems to behave a bit differently (like if it was resetting the console or something like that)15:16
hallynis that new?15:16
hallynsomeone mentioned something similar on lxc-users m-l i think15:16
Davieysmoser: are you around?15:17
hallynstgraber: in short no i've not looked into it15:17
stgraberhallyn: I only started noticing it a few weeks ago. I don't really use precise containers that much15:17
hallynoneiric containers on precise don't do that?15:17
stgraberhallyn: well, at least lucid containers on precise don't15:18
hallynit's possible i messed something up with the console.conf...15:18
hallyn(creating some new containers to play with)15:20
stgraberhallyn: found the problem I think, well, at least what caused it. Downgrading util-linux to Oneiric's version fixes it15:20
hallynyuck15:21
* stgraber starts diffing the two source packages15:24
yaksteranyone know how to fix "/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory" when trying to install mysql?15:38
zulDaviey: hes on holiday this week15:42
Davieyzul: who approved THAT?!15:48
zulgah?15:49
RoAkSoAxlol15:50
uvirtbotNew bug: #912352 in nova (main) "euca-allocate-address is not acepting any parameters" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91235216:02
uvirtbotNew bug: #912355 in euca2ools (main) "euca-allocate-address is not acepting any parameters" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91235516:08
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Kohelethbunt support with webmin ok?16:36
Kohelethor vice versa come to that16:36
Kohelethdumping Plesk16:37
Kohelethworst cp gui there is16:38
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EvilResistance!webmin | Koheleth16:42
ubottuKoheleth: webmin is no longer supported in Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected issues with your system.16:42
uvirtbotNew bug: #912376 in elinks (universe) "elinks unmodified config promoted for confirmation on upgrade" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91237616:46
pmatulisKoheleth: no, do not use webmin16:48
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SpamapSDaviey: hrm.. not sure why mysql would bug you repeatedly for a password on upgrade.. it shouldn't even *ask* on upgrade.17:19
SpamapSDaviey: possible we need to port the mysql-5.1 values forward to 5.5.. hrm17:19
* SpamapS is hrming a lot17:19
SpamapSno.. we use the generic mysql-server/root_password17:23
SpamapSso debconf should be silent17:23
uvirtbotNew bug: #912403 in bind9 (main) "package bind9 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91240317:41
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adam_gRoAkSoAx: ping17:50
DavieyCan everyone make sure blueprints are up to date please? :)17:50
Davieyrbasak / jamespage: ^^ before you go for the day please? :)17:51
Daviey(sorry for the late reminder)17:51
RoAkSoAxadam_g: pong17:52
DavieySpamaps,  rbasak and hazmat: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-servercloud-service-orchestration.html17:52
Daviey^^ can you update that please :)17:52
uvirtbotDaviey: Error: "^" is not a valid command.17:52
SpamapSDaviey: I'm working on the juju mir right now.. will mark them all as INPROGRESS17:53
RoAkSoAxDaviey: shgould we start preparing orchestra/cobbler for MIR too or shouild I just wait post sprint?17:54
RoAkSoAxerr rally17:55
adam_gRoAkSoAx: were you ever able to resolve that grub issue you had yesterday with orchestra? the same thing is blocking precise installs oon the openstack cluster17:55
RoAkSoAxadam_g: nope, still having the issue as of this morning. I'm waiting for this afternoon to see if it gets solved17:55
SpamapSRoAkSoAx: MIR's are mostly just gathering of information for the MIR team to digest.. so I'd say go for it, unless you think we won't be MIR'ing cobbler. :)17:57
adam_gRoAkSoAx: is there a bug for it somewhere?17:57
rbasakDaviey, nothing to update. I think I've just about cleared most other outstanding stuff, was hoping to make a start with the pandaboard tomorrow.17:58
RoAkSoAxSpamapS: indeed I guess I'll start then ;)18:00
RoAkSoAxadam_g: hold on let me retry18:04
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smoserDaviey, i'm here now18:05
adam_gRoAkSoAx: doing the same18:06
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adam_gRoAkSoAx: same thing18:24
RoAkSoAxadam_g: I can't seem to find a bug with the issue, so i guess we'll have to file one18:25
adam_ghttp://paste.ubuntu.com/794026/18:26
adam_gRoAkSoAx: syslog ^18:26
RoAkSoAxadam_g: yeah same error18:27
RoAkSoAxadam_g: have you tried with i386?18:34
adam_gRoAkSoAx: i have not18:36
adam_gRoAkSoAx: filing a bug against grub-installer now18:36
hallyngrr - the latest precise server mini iso fails on grub install18:42
hallynoh heh18:42
adam_g:)18:43
hallynman, lag is insane.  takes liek 30 seconds for chars to show up18:43
adam_ghallyn: are you doing anything special in the preseed (orchestra / juju-wise) or just a straight up precise install?18:44
hallynadam_g: i've had this both with and without preseed18:46
adam_ghallyn: ok, i guess thats "good"18:46
hallynfirst tried 'vm-new' from the vm-tools, and then just by hand with kvm on cmdline18:46
hallynon the bright side, you can just reboot from cd, rescue, and install grub2 by hand :)  so all the more i wonder why it fails in installer18:47
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adam_ghallyn: Bug #912431 if you want to weigh in / confirm18:48
uvirtbotLaunchpad bug 912431 in grub-installer "Preseeded 12.04 grub-install failed: Wrong number of args: mapdevfs <path>" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/91243118:48
adam_gRoAkSoAx: ^18:48
hallynthanks, will do18:48
hallynstgraber: you know, I wonder if the lxc /dev/console issue is related to all my recent server installs popping up on an empty console18:54
hallynoh, no, i bet that's bc it still wants to jump the X window even though there is no x18:55
hallynyeah, it's the vt.handoff=7 in /proc/cmdline.  getting rid of that fixes that.18:57
hallynoddly, that bit isn't in /etc/default/grub.18:59
yaksterhey all, have an issue installing mysql…. says that it cannot connect to dbus19:03
yaksterstart: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory19:04
SpamapSyakster: installing?19:04
yaksterok yeah now its not installing … sorry got ahead of myself19:04
SpamapSyakster: that should only happen when you try to run 'start mysql' as a non-root user19:04
yakstercan't install mysql-server cause mysql-server-5.1 is depends….19:05
SpamapSyakster: please explain what you tried to do, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened.19:05
yaksterok….19:05
yaksterinstalled mysql, and it failed, told me that19:07
yaksterPackage mysql-server-5.1 is not configured yet.19:07
yaksterdpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):19:07
yakster dependency problems - leaving unconfigured19:07
SpamapSok, try 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'19:07
yaksterok19:07
yaksterSetting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.54-1ubuntu4) ...19:07
SpamapSdon't paste it all here19:08
yaksterpastebin is down19:08
yakstersry19:08
SpamapShttp://paste.ubuntu.com .. :)19:08
yaksterhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/794071/19:09
smoseryakster, also, fyi, 'pastebin' command is your friend.19:09
smoserer... pastebinit.19:09
smoserutlemming, https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/ubuntu-on-ec2/ec2-publishing-scripts.detach-vol-cleanups/+merge/8766819:09
* utlemming looks19:10
yaksterwhat is the pastebinit syntax?19:14
yaksternm i got it19:16
yaksterSpamapS: anything?19:22
SpamapSyakster: sorry I got distracted :-P19:22
yaksternp19:23
yakstersays it can't continue because of a previous failure19:23
SpamapSyakster: ok, look in /var/log/mysql/* .. there may be some clues there19:23
SpamapSyakster: most likely problem is an error in /etc/my.cnf19:23
SpamapSerr19:23
SpamapS/etc/mysql/my.cnf19:24
yaksterI "rm -R /etc/mysql" when trying to reinstall from scratch19:24
SpamapSyakster: that would be the problem then19:25
SpamapSyakster: dpkg considers that intentional, and will leave the files there19:25
SpamapSerr, leave the files "deleted"19:25
yaksterso what….19:25
SpamapSyakster: try using 'dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1*.deb --force-confmiss19:25
SpamapSerr, without the extra ' ;)19:26
RoAkSoAxadam_g: how did you manage to pastebin the syslog from the failed installation?19:26
SpamapSyakster: next time use 'apt-get purge mysql-server-5.1' if you want to get rid of the config files.19:26
SpamapSyakster: though that will also remove the databses.19:26
yaksterdidnt know that…. but now i do19:26
yaksterok still mysql-server-5.1, errors were encounterd19:27
SpamapSyakster: its one of the more confusing things about dpkg... but its intentional since sometimes you do want to rm a config file and not have it come back.19:28
SpamapSyakster: is /etc/mysql back?19:28
SpamapSyakster: you may need to do mysql-common as well19:28
yaksternot yes19:28
yaksterok mysql-common19:28
yaksterok19:28
yaksteryes, mysql is back19:29
adam_gRoAkSoAx: there is a menu option to dump debug logs, and the installer serves them to you via http19:29
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RoAkSoAxadam_g: where's that menu option?19:30
adam_gRoAkSoAx: somewhere at the bottom, near 'execute a shell'19:30
RoAkSoAxadam_g: ok cool ;)19:30
smoserutlemming, please review that above.19:32
yakster, with all that you told me heres what I finally did to get it all to work…. apt-get  purge mysql*19:32
yaksterapt-get install mysql19:33
yaksterand now it is working19:34
utlemmingsmoser: merging now19:34
yaksterthank you19:34
CombatjuanI'm looking at iotop and finding that the Total DISK WRITE is often an order of magnitude or more than the actual sum of disk writes per process.  What does that mean?19:37
CombatjuanThe only thing I can figure is that it means that it's writing to swap, however iostat indicates that swap is not being touched.19:39
SpamapSCombatjuan: journalling is also an issue19:46
CombatjuanSpamapS - Interesting.  I'm seeing 20M/s in iotop (that's the total, the combined children come to about 1M/s).  That seems like an awful lot of journalling.  Could it possibly even be anywhere near that high?19:48
SpamapSCombatjuan: are you using any kernel based services like kernel nfs server maybe?19:49
SpamapSCombatjuan: also, dumb question.. RAID?19:50
CombatjuanNot sure about kernel-based services.  Yes, it is RAID.  Not sure why that's a dumb question though.19:50
Combatjuan(Hardware RAID)19:50
SpamapSCombatjuan: another possibility.. if your processes are writing *tiny* things.. your disks are writing *blocks* .. so if writes are 400 bytes each, but you have 4k blocks.. that would explain it19:50
SpamapSespecially if things are highly random and not sequential19:51
CombatjuanSpamapS - If the per-process settings are in fact per byte and the total is a sum of blocks, that would definitely seem like a possibility.19:51
Combatjuans/settings/numbers19:52
SpamapSCombatjuan: I don't know for sure how iotop works, but its at least a theory. :)19:54
SpamapSCombatjuan: I'd suggest stracing your processes and looking at how big the write's are.. and also looking at how often they fsync (or if the files are opened O_SYNC).19:55
SpamapSCombatjuan: strace -e trace=fsync,write -p xxxx19:55
CombatjuanExcellent idea.  Thanks SpamapS.19:56
CombatjuanIt's a postgres server.  It looks like most ever write is exactly one block (which I think is pretty normal).  Sometimes a few blocks at a time.  Each line is an fsync though?19:59
SpamapSyeah with postgres I'd expect it to be fairly efficient with the writes19:59
SpamapSCombatjuan: perhaps iotop is misleading you about the total writes of all processes20:00
DavieyRoAkSoAx: wait for the Rally.20:00
SpamapSCombatjuan: note.. that the cheapest solution for all write problems (even cheaper than diagnosing like you're doing now) is to go buy a FusionIO card and stick your data on that. ;)20:00
CombatjuanThat's my best guess.  There are times when it claims that it wrote 50M/s.  It seems to use bytes though it doesn't explitely say so everywhere.  I don't think the raid (simple mirror) can even do that.20:01
Kyle__How do you put a desktop environment on ubuntu-server, and have it only start when you run startx?  I dont' want it running all the time20:02
CombatjuanSpamapS: Yeah, I do love solving things with hardware even though that's hard to do from half a continent away.  But this is the first time that the server has ever seemed to be disk-bound instead of something else.  So I'm not ready to do that yet.20:02
RoAkSoAxDaviey: OK20:02
Kyle__upstart seems so odd to me.20:02
SpamapSKyle__: you're not alone. :)20:02
SpamapSKyle__: its quite elegant once you get used to it though.20:03
thyranthi guys20:36
semiosishi all, i have a quesiton about contributing ubuntu-specific improvements to a debian package20:36
semiosisspecifically, how would I go about doing that?20:37
semiosisthe package, glusterfs-server, is included in ubuntu from debian, but there's an ubuntu-specific bug resulting from our use of upstart/mountall.20:38
thyrantI am thinking about updating my ubuntu server 9.10 .. how much trouble might I be in if I do so?20:38
semiosisi have an upstart job which solves the problem, which can be added to the packaging20:38
semiosissee https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glusterfs/+bug/87664820:39
uvirtbotLaunchpad bug 876648 in glusterfs "Unable to mount local glusterfs volume at boot" [Undecided,New]20:39
Kyle__thyrant: From 9.10 to 11.10?  They changed what they call the DHCP and DNS servers, even though they're the stock ISC ones in both versions.  I can't recall a whole lotta differences.20:43
thyrantstock ISC ?20:45
Kyle__thyrant: internet systems consortium.  They're DHCP server is the standard, and that's what debian ubuntu and most every other distro has always come with20:47
Picithyrant: You'll need to go through all the intermediate releases if you upgrade from 9.10 to 11.10.  May I suggest just upgrading to 10.04 and then to 12.04 when it is released (you can update from  LTS to LTS)20:48
Kyle__thyrant: They also make BIND20:48
thyrantthe server works fine though.. I only wanted to update to get a supported version so I can install bittorrent. Cant figure out how to do it in 9.1020:48
Picithyrant: Then just upgrade to 10.0420:48
thyrantthanks I'll do that20:51
RoAkSoAxadam_g: do you have any orchestra server with dnsmasq?20:52
RoAkSoAxin the lab20:53
RoAkSoAxadam_g: nevermind21:00
cjzcan anyone help with a postfix issue, im trying to get amazon ses working through postfix and id like to up the debugging to see what pipe is actually doing21:09
cjzive done -vvvv on the pipe daemon entry but its not showing how its calling the actual argv command21:10
Patrickdk!verbose21:11
Patrickdkoh heh, wrong channel21:11
Patrickdkincreasing verbose in postfix is hardly ever needed by anyone21:11
semiosiscjz: you know amazon recently announced SMTP support for SES?  so your apps can connect directly to SES via SMTP and not have to use a postfix gateway anymore21:14
cjzmy app is nagios21:14
cjzwould that work?21:14
semiosisi'm not sure, i'm still using the postfix gateway :D21:15
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semiosiscjz: here's my config for example: http://pastie.org/313379521:19
semiosiscjz: i found the amazon-provided perl scripts to be completely worthless, so i wrote this nice & clean python script using boto (requires boto 2.0+) to do the ses delivery21:20
semiosiscjz: however, thinking about this again, since SES now supports SMTP itself, you can probably skip the whole pipe-to-a-script method and just have postfix deliver to another SMTP server which is SES21:21
newbie|2hi all21:21
newbie|2i've a question about ldap configuration with proftpd21:22
newbie|2when i try to connect on my ftp, i've this message : "invalid dn syntaxt" in proftpd.log21:22
newbie|2syntax*21:23
semiosiscjz: oops just realized that should be master.cf, not main.cf, in the pastie link i just sent21:23
newbie|2my ldap server is a windows serveur 2003 active directory21:24
jwachello...anyone active?21:25
jwacyo anyone got a sec?  I have a quick question about nullmailer21:35
SpamapSjamespage: around?21:37
SpamapS!ask21:37
ubottuPlease don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-) See also !patience21:37
SpamapSjwac: ^^21:37
jwack21:37
Kyle__How long does patience take?21:37
Kyle__!patience21:37
ubottuDon't feel ignored and repeat your question quickly; if nobody knows your answer, nobody will answer you. While you wait, try searching https://help.ubuntu.com or http://ubuntuforums.org or http://askubuntu.com/21:37
SpamapSKyle__: I'll tell you tomorrow ;)21:37
Kyle__!impatience21:37
Kyle__Hu.  It really should have that one....21:38
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robbiew!yell21:38
ubottuPLEASE DON'T SHOUT! We can read lowercase too.21:38
jwacI use nullmailer.  Whenever I send an email from the CLI it just sits in my queue, not autosending.  I'm thinking it may be the permissions on the queue folder because I mistakingly deleted it and had to recreate it.  I want to start by asking, can anyone find out what the default permissions on the nullmailer queue folder are for me please?21:39
thyranthey guys, me with ubuntu server 9.10 again.. My question is now: what is the best procedure to backup the whole system, repartition the drives and restore the system to exactly the same state as before?21:48
PatrickdkI thought 9.10 went unsupported a long time ago21:49
Kyle__Is anyone here airly familiar with dell's DRAC cards?22:03
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cjzwoot22:30
cjzsemiosis:  that was it, got it working thank you very much22:30
semiosiscjz: glad to hear it, you're welcome22:39
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