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Re: barnowl on Ubuntu 22.04 based dialup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Aug 21 19:24:24 2023
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:24:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jonathon Weiss" <jweiss@mit.edu>
To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Alejandro_R=2E_Sede=F1o?= <asedeno@mit.edu>
CC: Jason Gross <jgross@mit.edu>, <barnowl-dev@mit.edu>,
cloud-platforms
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Here's a question. Would it make more sense for us to install the
barnowl form ubuntu universe, and just tell people to use that? I
don't know if there's any value in having a local build these days, or
if it is just extra effort.
=09Jonathon
On Mon, 21 Aug 2023, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> Yeah, it returning amd64_ubuntu1804 is definitely a bug. I didn't have t=
ime=20
> to more than glance at it today. I'll try to get it fixed tomorrow, but=
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> later this week is more likley.
>
> =09Jonathon
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Alejandro R. Sede=C3=B1o wrote:
>
>> Oh, `fs sysname` returning `amd64_ubuntu1804` and not
>> `amd64_ubuntu2204` is not going to go well with building barnowl for
>> this release. The versions of perl in 18.04 and 22.04 are different,
>> which is why the existing barnowl build for 18.04 doesn't work on the
>> new dialup. If `@sys` can't distinguish them then we have no place to
>> put the new build.
>>=20
>> glasgall was the last person to build barnowl for the locker, IIRC,
>> and I don't know how much she remembers at this point. I know I've
>> forgotten everything I ever knew about how to set up the perl stuff,
>> but I know that's a necessary step.
>>=20
>> -Alejandro
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>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 8:50=E2=80=AFPM Jason Gross <jgross@mit.edu> wro=
te:
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>>> I spent a little while looking into this, though I'm probably not the b=
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>>> person for the job (I don't have much recollection of how lockers are s=
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>>> up, and am not familiar with the setup barnowl seems to be using for=20
>>> perl).
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>>> I'm a bit confused why ATHENA_SYS and machtype -S disagree with=20
>>> lsb_release -a on what system proto.dialup.mit.edu is using:
>>> jgross@contents-vnder-pressvre:~$ echo $ATHENA_SYS
>>> amd64_ubuntu1804
>>> jgross@contents-vnder-pressvre:~$ machtype -S
>>> amd64_ubuntu1804
>>> jgross@contents-vnder-pressvre:~$ lsb_release -a
>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>> Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
>>> Release: 22.04
>>> Codename: jammy
>>>=20
>>> However, if this is an oversight and they should report amd64_ubuntu220=
4,=20
>>> my guess is that we just need to rebuild barnowl for 22.04.
>>>=20
>>> I see that there's /mit/barnowl/build/locker-build for building barnowl=
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>>> (though I don't seem to have write permissions to the barnowl locker?),=
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>>> but I don't see any similar script for building and installing whatever=
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>>> perl libraries we need; currently ./configure fails with configure: err=
or:=20
>>> cannot find perl module Module::Install::Base. Does anyone who's done =
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>>> barnowl release recall the process for setting up perl for barnowl on a=
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>>> new arch?
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>>> Best,
>>> Jason
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>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 2:47=E2=80=AFPM Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>=
wrote:
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>>>> Hi barnowl folks,
>>>>=20
>>>> I wanted to check in on this. Next week, we're hoping to start buildi=
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>>>> the VMs that will replace the production dialup pool. This is one of=
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>>>> only two issues that we're currently aware of with the 22.04=20
>>>> configuration.
>>>>
>>>> Jonathon
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>>>>=20
>>>> On Fri, 4 Aug 2023, Andy Kalenderian wrote:
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>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> We've put together an Ubuntu 22.04 based "dialup", since the existing
>>>>> ones are based on Ubuntu 18.04 which went out of support in April. It
>>>>> is available at proto.dialup.mit.edu.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> It's been reported that barnowl currently doesn't work on the new=20
>>>>> system:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> [~ contents-vnder-pressvre]> barnowl
>>>>> Attempting to create directory /mit/barnowl/arch/amd64_ubuntu1804/per=
l/
>>>>> Unable to create=20
>>>>> /mit/barnowl/arch/amd64_ubuntu1804/perl/lib/perl5/5.34.0:
>>>>> No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/local/lib.pm line 720.
>>>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>>>>> /mit/barnowl/arch/amd64_ubuntu1804/bin/barnowl.real: error while load=
ing
>>>>> shared libraries: libperl.so.5.26: cannot open shared object file: No=
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>>>>> such
>>>>> file or directory
>>>>>=20
>>>>> If this requires any additional packages installed or if you have any
>>>>> issues/feedback please send them to bug-dialup@mit.edu.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Thanks,
=09Jonathon
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