Re: [bitfolk] Upcoming reboot for security patch, XSA-212

Hello, On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 03:34:43PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: The first set of maintenance work was completed successfully, with a few minor issues. All of the customer VPSes that tried suspend-and-restore worked fine, as far as I can determine. pvgrub failed to parse the config files of four customer VPSes. Two of these were Gentoo, one was CentOS 6 and one was Ubuntu 14.04. In all cases they were using a legacy GRUB config file, and pvgrub refused to load the kernel. These were reverted back to pygrub and will have to be investigated later. pvgrub failed to start at all for one customer. It may be because they have more than 4GiB RAM and a 32-bit pvgrub. I'm not sure if that supports PAE as this was a configuration I did not test. For many customers this maintenance will be the first time they have rebooted since we switched to pvgrub. pvgrub was actually tested with all of the mentioned Linux distributions so I'm not sure why it is failing for these four customers. 167 VPSes were rebooted tonight so 4 is quite a small number having problems. As it is pretty quick and easy for me to revert a customer back to pygrub, I am not going to revert everyone back. I will deal with any failures as I see them, then investigate the problems after this round of maintenance is complete. I will now open support tickets with each of the affected customers, and same for any problems that are encountered with the next two days of maintenance work. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting