I still haven't had a chance to test the transifex stuff :)
alastairp
ruaok: http only
ruaok
alastairp: ah, thanks.
that won't help my SSH connections. I guess I am working from home for yet another day.
alastairp
:(
ruaok
I'll pester alba about someone checking out my connection. again.
alastairp
do you have specific stats about what's not working? lost packets, bad ping?
it'd be interesting to compare with my machine
ruaok
while True:
works_great_for_a_few_minutes();
utter_fail_for_a_few_minutes()
Its either 100% on or 100% off. And when it comes back, all previous connections are deader than dead.
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ocharles: ping
alastairp
ah, interesting.
I don't ssh out of campus very often, so I'm not sure
though one thing I did is added connection keepalive to all my connections
ruaok
I've already got that in place.
but this is a about a 100% cut in service. total darkness.
not very condusive to work when you have servers in california to maintain.
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warp
ruaok: if you don't need ForwardAgent mosh helps maintain sanity on unreliable connections. ofcourse it only solves the problem of being able to continue working when the connection comes back, not while it is gone :)
ruaok
yeah, I should check into that….
warp
brew install mobile-shell on your mac, and sudo apt-get install mosh on the ubuntu machines.
ocharles
ruaok: hey
ruaok
hi.
have you ever had it where you started chef and you got the "chef starting" message and then it hangs?
that's what's happening on rocko right now. :(
ocharles
nope, what are you running?
ruaok
I've got the latest chef installed.
ocharles
that is, what command?
ruaok
chef-solo.
ocharles
ok, how did you install Chef?
with the funky bash script opscode provide?
ruaok
gem install chef
ocharles
ok, that's not how I've been installing it so far, so I should document that :)
ruaok
yes, but ditched that.
ocharles
oh?
ruaok
and the distro we have has no chef packages. those came a release late.
ocharles
what distro is that?
ruaok
well, the funky install script worked to install it, but it had the same problem
12.04
ocharles
hmm
ruaok
it appears to block on a select call in the ohai libs
ocharles
let me ssh in and watch this happen too
ruaok
k
ocharles
ok, where should I look for the configuration?
ruaok
~robert/musicbrainz-logs
then see install.sh
I just run
sudo sh install.sh
don't expect much from the output. :)
ocharles
:)
how very odd
ruaok
this problem appears to have happened before, but it was tied to old kernels and fixed about 2 years ago.
ocharles
Oddly astro is fine and is on an older kernel
(3.2)
ruaok
older in this case was 2.6
ocharles
ah
ruaok starts shaking down Vevo.
Hmm
astro doesn't have a Ruby on $PATH, but rocko does
The ruby on astro bundled with Chef is different to that on rocko