Wanted to update folks, the new CPU arrived, I installed it and the machine would not even post. Have not had time to troubleshoot further. However, I have another machine that I recently build that is essentially the same architecture, 10-core rather than 18-cores, but the 18 core machine was only running at less than 4% CPU occupancy so this should be fine. Over the next few days I’m going to move these services over to that machine since the existing machine seems to be determined to give me no end in grief.
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Roundcube, Manjaro, Yacy, Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Misskey Down
The estimated time of return to service is around December 20th. I am waiting upon the arrival of a new cpu.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is currently down because it is in the process of being moved to new faster hardware. It should be back up about 12:30AM Dec 11th.
Mail Server
The mail server is taking longer to copy than I anticipated. This is because the RAID array is still synchronizing disk and so competing with the copy for disk I/O.
Client Mail Server
The client mail server, mail.eskimo.com, is in the process of being moved from the Igloo server to the Ice server. This is being done because the new Ice has 2-1/2 times as many CPU cores as the old machine and 4x the amount of RAM and mail needs more RAM to handle list serve deliveries better.
During this time, login to shell servers will hang because they are waiting on the mail server spool mounted via NFS which isn’t responding because it is down while being moved. i expect this to be completed around 3:30AM.
Ubuntu Is Down
The reason mail did not work on Ubuntu is that I accidentally left a development repository on during the upgrade. This resulted in a mixture of different package versions including a broken libglib2 library which there was no way of fixing save re-installing.
I am in the process of re-installing all the packages now.
Ubuntu Upgraded but Outgoing Mail is Broken
Ubuntu is upgraded to 24.04 Noble but outgoing e-mail is presently broken. Please use another shell server to send or reply to e-mail. I am still working on it.
Ubuntu – Upgrade in Progress
Ubuntu is currently unresponsive because of an update in progress from 22.04 Jammy to 24.04 noble. This is taking longer than expected largely owing to the huge number of packages installed and automatic backups of the host server taking place simultaneously.
In the meantime, please consider using debian, mint, mxlinux, popos, or zorin as alternatives. All of these are derived from the same base and will operate similarly.
Friendica.Eskimo.Com – Down for a couple of Hours
I was not where I thought I was and did an rm -rf removing the friendica directory in the process. So it’s being restored from compressed backups. Because the partition that is backed up is 13TB partition, this is going to take a little while.
New Social Media Service
In an attempt to further the freedom of speech, I have added a new Misskey social media site to Eskimo North. It can be reached through our Web-Apps menu on the main website https://www.eskimo.com/ or directly at https://misskey.eskimo.com/.
It is a minimal setup at present so not super pretty but I’ll fill it out as time permits.
This joins our other social media sites, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://mastodon.eskimo.com/, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and our federated search engine https://yacy.eskimo.com/.