[7064] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes from 11/19 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Nov 19 22:36:37 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:36:30 -0500
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Attending: amb, jweiss, alexp, jdreed, rbasch, silvesa, aurora, othomas
> - Broken machines: There are a number of perpetually broken machines (macgregor-5) which have repeatedly failed re-installation. We need a good solution for these. In at least one case, the machine was re-installed by me personally and worked just fine in N42, but upon deployment to macgregor, it magically turned back into debathena-workstation.
ACTION ITEM: jweiss will arrange for daily Nagios digests to go to hotline.
ACTION ITEM: Change dslogger reports to only include hostnames with lines of concern ("->")
> - Related to the above, "machtype -L | grep "debathena-cluster" is not an acceptable substitute for "PUBLIC=true". While there's some argument that private workstation install logs shouldn't be publicly available, w20-575-1 should, for example, always display all logs publicly, even if Debathena installation failed somehow or it got downgraded to workstation. I can think of several ways to accomplish this: Query for hesiod cluster=cluster to determine whether to view the information, or have the -cluster installation create a flag file (/etc/athena/public) in the sysroot at install time, and use that file to determine whether a machine is "public" or not. That way, debugging info will be available even for pseudo-failed installs.
We should create a flag file for athinfo to use. This can be the PXE install flag file, or something else.
ACITION ITEM: amb will decide what the choice is for the flag file.
> - Realplayer (alexp)
ACTION ITEM: Bob will update an entry for amd64_deb50 to include a file that tells people there is no real player and encourages them to use Helix or VLC instead, or possibly link to the Ubuntu Wiki instructions that Alex found.
ACTION ITEM: jdreed will open a Trac ticket to investigate removing the realplayer-glue.
> - Release schedule (jdreed): Should we revisit the idea of only targeting LTS releases for the clusters?
We should focus on keeping directorates up to date on the potential impact of changes, but we're not making any decision at this time.
The dialups did not get upgraded to Lucid; now targetted for after finals. Ops is still on track for turning off the remaining Sun dialups on or about 1/1/11.
