Mail Subsystem Repaired

The grub subsystem on mail.eskimo.com has been repaired. For some reason the Ubuntu update system installed some packages needed for a signed kernel onto a system that is running an unsigned kernel AND installed some arm64 packages on an x86_64 system. I’ve deleted the inappropriate packages, installed the correct and necessary packages and test booted to make sure it comes up cleanly.

Mail Subsystem

I have to take the mail subsystem down for perhaps 45 minutes or so in order to fix an issue with grub that was broken by a Ubuntu update that left it in a half-secure boot and half non-secure boot state.  This could, if not fixed, cause a failure to reboot at a more critical time.  It’s best that I address this now while usage is low.

Roundcube, Manjaro, Yacy, Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Misskey Down

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.

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 – 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.