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'''18 Wednesday'''
 
'''18 Wednesday'''
  
* arm6 filesystem corrupted, unreadable on another machine. Used another card to get the builder back online. Configured.
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* arm6 filesystem corrupted, unreadable on another machine. Used another card to get the builder back online. Configured, back online and ready for tasks.
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* arm6 not processing tasks, after troubleshooting error was permissions on the filesystem. This change needs to be made each time rootfs used as perms are not correct.

Revision as of 13:26, 18 August 2010


03 Tuesday

  • went to Markham campus to fill out paperwork for HR.
  • troubleshooting builds. Packages needing gcc, which needs binutils, builds to solve dependencies.
  • meeting with Chris.

04 Wednesday

  • troubleshooting build failures, gcc not building.
  • troubleshooting space issue on arm5, arm6. No root fs mounted
  • work on solving gcc deps.
  • proposal for fsoss

05 Thursday

  • attempting to track down issue with gcc
  • builds of additional packages required
  • edit build-previous.py script to change naming

06 Friday

  • work on back procedure.
  • originally attempting to use rsync and ssh keys, but changed due to security.
  • started to use bacula

09 Monday

  • checked logs for information regarding build failure of gcc
  • implemented bacula, problems with version mismatch, resolved.
  • edit gcc spec file
  • spoke with Dawn regarding IO position.

10 Tuesday

  • bacula working for backups, tweaking of backup management
  • edit gcc again, another failed build attempt
  • final test configuration of bacula completed. Backup scheduled to run weekly full backups every sunday at 9pm, and nightly incremental backups at 11:10PM. File being backed up from hongkong include - /etc, /share/koji, /var/lib/pgsql. Later tweaks will include postgresql dump to be backed up instead of the entire directory. Back ups are compressed with gzip for travel across the network.
  • packaging of mkrootfs completed however issues running script. Appears to be intended to run on arm machine rather then x86.

11 Wednesday

  • backup job failed to run, no log information as to why, troubleshooting.
  • backup jobs edited, problem should now be resolved. Full backup completed. Compressed 27G. Incremental backups each night at 11:05, full backups every sunday at 9pm. Backups are kept for 30 days.
  • completed mkrootfs-f12 packaging and testing. works on an arm based system.

12 Thursday

  • tweak to mkrootfs rpm to include repo, edit repo so not enabled.
  • small tweaks to bacula config files as backup catalog job was not completing successfully.
  • upgraded uboot on experimental guru.
  • loaded new kernel Chris compiled.
  • plug boots!

13 Friday

  • tracking down build failures, reasons, where needed uploading new srpm
  • problems booting fedora from sd card with new uboot and kernel, will revisit.
  • rebuilds of select packages to fix blocking issues.

16 Monday

  • tracking build problems, rebuilds of select packages.
  • edit python script to prevent error occurring right after pydict. FIXED!
  • attempting to boot fedora from sdcard on guruplug. Change uboot, issue still exists.

17 Tuesday

  • checked builds from previous night, script stopped with same error, attempt to fix.
  • backup of sql database for Bacula not working, created a script to manually dump the bacula db, create folder with current date and insert sql backup.
  • problem discovered with arm6, filesystem seems to be corrupted. Taken offline.
  • troubleshooting kernel, tried new kernel, same issue with usb not being availible.

18 Wednesday

  • arm6 filesystem corrupted, unreadable on another machine. Used another card to get the builder back online. Configured, back online and ready for tasks.
  • arm6 not processing tasks, after troubleshooting error was permissions on the filesystem. This change needs to be made each time rootfs used as perms are not correct.