User:Paul.W/august2010

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.
• test data connections in 1040, not connected to network, outlets dead.
• cancel remaining jobs in queue to start build-previous-ct2.py (reasoning - rather then wait a second time for jobs that fail to build, cancel queue to requeue those packages.)

19 Thursday

• analyze build failures, looking for packages that could be imported to reduce the failures.
• read blog created by maintainers of previous arm koji
• wrote blog on current arm status.
• started self review on mkrootfs rpm before submission.

20 Friday

• space issues on hongkong, cleared out all rpms that have already been uploaded into koji from /tmp directories. Also resized root partition adding an additional 40G.
• troubleshooting issue on hongkong. some commands will not return a prompt, ie 'll /' , 'df -hT'. Issue turned out to be an nfs share that was no longer shared with HongKong.
• Made changes to mkrootfs package, attempting to allow armv5tel rootfs to be created on any machine, not just another arm machine.
• build of perl-version-0.82-1.fc12 has stopped all builds on koji, cannot init build root due to version conflict between perl and perl-version. I have untagged the offending package and taken all builders offline to allow new repos to be generated. Will then attempted to import perl-version-0.82-1.fc13 in an attempt to fix. Asked in the #koji channel for assistance, no response yet.