We will be rebooting most of our servers (all the Intel based machines) to load a new kernel to address recently discovered security vulnerabilities.

     OpenSuse.eskimo.com is back online but is back on version 15.0 owing to the inability for x2goserver to run on 15.1 because x2goagent is missing.

     Most NextClouds are back online.  Unrecoverable for the time being are OnlyOffice and ZimbraDrive.

     Presently a large number of NextCloud applications are unavailable.

     This is because in a recent update something went wrong breaking one or more of the apps.  With all of the apps enabled it just loads a white page, no errors or clues as to what is wrong even if I turn on php display_errors.

     So to troubleshoot I’ve disabled all apps, which has allowed the page to load and am slowly enabling them to determine which is broken.  This will take a while, please be patient.

     OpenSuse.eskimo.com is going to be down longer than I thought, days, maybe weeks.

     15.1 is installed but I can’t get into any of the graphical tools I need to complete the configuration because x2goserver is broken on it, no x2goagent necessary for x2goserver.

     No idea yet how I’m going to work around this one, maybe vnc or rdp.  At any rate it’s not going to be easy or fast.

     Opensuse.eskimo.com will be unavailable for several hours during upgrade from Leap 15.0 to leap 15.1.  Unfortunately, an in-place upgrade failed requiring a fresh install.  This has never been a simple or straight forward process with Suse so will take a few hours.

     OwnCloud has once again pissed itself during the upgrade process.

     Checking usage, I see nobody has made use of this in the last 90 days so I am going to discontinue support for OwnCloud and leave NextCloud alone to provide cloud services.

     NextCloud upgrade has completed and it is back in service.

     Updates are in progress for both OwnCloud and NextCloud cloud services at Eskimo.  Both of these involve a maintenance period where cloud services will be unavailable.  In the case of OwnCloud, because it’s been a very long time since an upgrade was available, this is likely to be a lengthy process.

     CentOS6, Debian, and Ubuntu will be down for a short period tonight, probably 11pm-1am time frame, to change some disk parameters to improve performance and reduce overall load on the physical hosts by enabling read-ahead and write-back caching.