BitFolk Users January 2012

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by Murray Crane

I must confess, straight off the bat, that this has nothing to do with Bitfolk, but you're the most knowledgeable group of guys and gals I know when it comes to Linuxy things. What's considered "normal" when it comes to the size of a CPanel installation? I've got a VPS with a US provider, and the CPanel folder is over 2GB, and that just feels wrong to me, but I don't have anything for comparison. Kind regards Murray Crane

12 years, 11 months

Re: [bitfolk] Trying to install apt-show-versions

by James Gregory

Hi Matthew, You should be able to upgrade it using the do-release-upgrade tool built into Ubuntu - this document details how to do it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/Dapper. Andy also suggested an alternative, which is to request a temporary new VPS with the latest version of Ubuntu on it then migrate everything from your old to your new one - https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS James On 22 January 2012 15:41, Matthew Humphreys <matthew.humphreys(a)austrey.net> wrote: > Thanks James - spot on! > > Can you advise the easiest way to upgrade to Heron? I've tried via the > control panel, but it doesn't seem to do anything! > > Any help much appreciated! > > Many thanks > > > Matthew > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Matthew Humphreys > > Please help me raise money for The Anthony Nolan Trust > http://www.bmycharity.com/matthewhumphreys > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > On 22 January 2012 15:25, James Gregory <jgxenite(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Matthew, >> >> Judging by the log output, you're running Ubuntu Dapper (6.06), which >> (for servers) went End of Life in June. That means no updates are >> being released for it, and the apt repositories won't have been >> updated. You should really upgrade to (at the least) the next LTS, >> which is Hardy (8.04) (and is supported until 2013). >> >> Hope that helps, >> James >> >> On 22 January 2012 15:18, Matthew Humphreys >> <matthew.humphreys(a)austrey.net> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to install "apt-show-versions" to allow me to upgrade some >> > packages on my server. >> > >> > sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions generates the following >> > response:- >> > >> > --------------------------- >> > matthew@mail:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree... Done >> > The following NEW packages will be installed >> > apt-show-versions >> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded. >> > 1 not fully installed or removed. >> > Need to get 18.9kB of archives. >> > After unpacking 123kB of additional disk space will be used. >> > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! >> > apt-show-versions >> > Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y >> > Errhttp://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com dapper/universe apt-show-versions >> > 0.09ubuntu1 >> > 404 Not Found >> > Failed to fetch >> > >> > http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu/gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/… >> > 404 Not Found >> > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with >> > --fix-missing? >> > matthew@mail:~$ >> > --------------------------- >> > >> > Can anyone suggest a fix - or am I doing something wrong? >> > >> > I also ran apt-get update and sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions >> > --fix-missing, but this didn't help! >> > >> > Many thanks >> > >> > >> > >> > Matthew >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > users(a)lists.bitfolk.com >> > https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > >

12 years, 11 months

Renumbering IPs and Bind

by Michael Corliss

I renumbered my Ubuntu VPS at the end of december, I had thought successfully, until this week I got an email letting me know that my website was still using the old IP address. I didn't disable the old address, but I did add the new one and change the address in the bind zone file. I updated the serial number in the file, which I thought was sufficient to send the file up the chain (pardon, my understanding of what's really happening in this step is sketchy), but nslookup confirms that the site is still using the old IP address. Is there something I'm missing to get the Bitfolk nameservers to take the updated file? Thank you, Mike

12 years, 11 months

Trying to install apt-show-versions

by Matthew Humphreys

Hi, I'm trying to install "apt-show-versions" to allow me to upgrade some packages on my server. sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions generates the following response:- --------------------------- matthew@mail:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed apt-show-versions 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 18.9kB of archives. After unpacking 123kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! apt-show-versions Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Errhttp://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com dapper/universe apt-show-versions 0.09ubuntu1 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/ubuntu/gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/… 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? matthew@mail:~$ --------------------------- Can anyone suggest a fix - or am I doing something wrong? I also ran apt-get update and sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions --fix-missing, but this didn't help! Many thanks Matthew

12 years, 11 months

Renumbering issue

by Matthew Humphreys

Hi, For a whole load of reasons - mainly family related! - I've just been reminded about the renumbering and actioned it this evening. All seems to have gone quite well - except for one small issue. I cannot make a connection "from" the server. e,g, ping www.bbc.co.uk ping: unknown host www.bbc.co.uk ping webmin.com ping: unknown host webmin.com Please can someone give me a few pointers as to what I have done wrong! >From webmin..... * <https://www.bak-rak.com:10000/net/list_routes.cgi#>* *Destination <https://www.bak-rak.com:10000/net/list_routes.cgi#>* *Gateway <https://www.bak-rak.com:10000/net/list_routes.cgi#> * *Netmask <https://www.bak-rak.com:10000/net/list_routes.cgi#>* * Interface <https://www.bak-rak.com:10000/net/list_routes.cgi#>* 85.119.80.0 None 255.255.248.0 eth0 Default Route 85.119.80.1 eth0 ::1 :: 128 lo fe80::216:4eff:fe14:ae25 :: 128 lo fe80:: :: 64 eth0 ff00:: :: 8 eth0 Many thanks Matthew --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Humphreys ---------------------------------------------------------------------

12 years, 11 months

Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade

by Paul Tansom

I've been putting this off, but really should get it done (yes I know 12.04LTS isn't far off). Partly this is due to wanting to support IPv6 on the server better (Apache isn't happy). Is it safe to do an in place upgrade now (I remember it didn't alway go smoothly early on) or would a clean install be better (OK, likely always better in some ways, but if I can do an in place now and think about a clean install for 12.04 later that would be easier - hopefully!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU

12 years, 11 months

Re: [bitfolk] Lenny-to-Squeeze Upgrade Plan - 2nd opinions sought!

by Deanna Earley

Does CTRL+L (force a redraw) help? -- Deanna Earley ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mathew Newton" <bitfolklist(a)newtonnet.co.uk> Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 09:44 Subject: [bitfolk] Lenny-to-Squeeze Upgrade Plan - 2nd opinions sought! To: <users(a)lists.bitfolk.com> Hi Ian, On Sun, January 15, 2012 8:59 pm, Ian wrote: > 4. Doing the upgrade via the console had an issue with some of the alert > boxes ('you've made changes to this file - do you want to keep them or > install the package maintainer's version' sort of thing) staying on > screen. Towards the end, I had one viewable line of text. That's interesting - I see that all the time in the console and assumed it was something to do with the configuration at my end (accessing via Putty). For normal scrolling text I don't have any problems with the console, however when editing in-situ e.g. with nano/emacs the screen often starts to freeze and the effective text window decreases until I have no choice but to disconnect and try again. It is little more than a pain at the moment, however I was planning an Lenny-to-Squeeze upgrade and am concerned now as I really don't want any issues like this mid way. Has anyone else seen this and/or got any ideas how to resolve it? Mathew P.S. I could probably take a video of the problem if it helps show what the issue is... _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users

12 years, 11 months

Custom kickstart URLs were broken, now fixed

by Andy Smith

Hi, Today we discovered that the ability to specify a custom kickstart URL when doing a CentOS or Scientific Linux install was broken. It just used the default kickstart anyway. It's now fixed, so if you had tried to do that in the past and failed, it wasn't your fault - apologies. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

12 years, 11 months

Errors on boot (fsck, swap and time)

by Mathew Newton

Hi everyone, I thought I'd post this here in case any responses might be useful for the archives should anyone else come across similar... Following a recent IPv4 numbering update I removed my old IPv4 address today and shutdown/boot(ed) my VPS from the console. I noticed a few warnings/errors in the boot log which I don't recall having seen before: Setting the system clock. Unable to set System Clock to: Sat Jan 14 16:11:03 UTC 2012 (warning). [... non-related output removed ...] Not activating swap on swapfile. (warning). [... non-related output removed ...] Will now check root file system:fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/xvda / primary superblock features different from backup, check forced. /: ***** REBOOT LINUX ***** /: 138212/1310720 files (10.2% non-contiguous), 3340623/5242880 blocks fsck died with exit status 3 failed! The file system check corrected errors on the root partition but requested that the system be restarted. failed! The system will be restarted in 5 seconds. (warning). Will now restart. [ 126.850328] xenbus_dev_shutdown: device/console/0: Initialising != Connected, skipping [ 127.413907] Restarting system. I recently increased the size of my VPS disk storage (successfully) and so I'm wondering if the fsck check was as a result of that? The subsequent boot completed successfully so I'm not overly concerned... or should I be? Any thoughts about the system clock setting failure and not activating the swapfile? Mathew

12 years, 11 months

Increase of base data transfer quota

by Andy Smith

Hello, Effective immediately our base data transfer quota is increasing from 100GB/month to 200GB/month. All existing accounts have had 100GB extra data transfer quota added to their current quota. If you were paying for additional data transfer quota over and above 100GB then you may now be paying for more than you need. If that is the case then please contact support to ask for what you don't need to be removed (down to a minimum of 200GB) before your next payment is due. Also, the overage charge has been reduced from £0.75 per GB to £0.25 per GB. It is still *much* cheaper to commit to additional data transfer than to go into overage[1]. If you have any questions, just reply, or open a support ticket. All prices exclude VAT. Cheers, Andy [1] Committing to an extra 10GB/month is £0.50. Using 10GB of overage will now be £2.50. -- "I never wanted to be a comedian. When I was very young I wanted to be a writer […] But then, at the age of 16, I saw a comedian called Ted Chippington open for The Fall in Birmingham in October 1984 and literature's loss became stand-up comedy's loss also." — Stewart Lee _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce

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