Server Team 20080930 meeting minutes
 

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20080930.


==== Ubuntu vm builder ====

soren uploaded a new version that only fixes bugs. mathiaz asked about the
supported images. soren said that xen had been supported for a few weeks now.
He added that there was some interest to get virtualbox supported as well. For
vmware nijaba stated that player, workstation and server should work. For ESX
it may need a manual conversion with tools provided by VMware. Testing on
these platforms is welcome.

nijaba has updated the the JeOS VmBuilder tutorial[1] and would like to get
some feedback on it.

[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder

==== JeOS for Intrepid ====

mathiaz noted that the JeOS iso won't be produced for Intrepid. JeOS is
instead an option when booting the -server installer by pressing F4 at the
first screen. JeOS has also been renamed to Minimal Install.

However the linux-image-virtual kernel meta package isn't available. The
-server flavor is installed instead. soren is working on getting the virtual
meta packages ready. mathiaz asked whether something else had to be done in
the installer to get the virtual flavor installed. soren said the virtual
flavor should be seeded but wasn't sure if the installer code had to be
updated.

==== Review ServerGuide for Intrepid ====

mathiaz reviewed the ldap section. He is planning on doing more testing to
cover the replication section.

ACTION: sommer to update the JeOS and installation sections

ACTION: zul to do review of the virtualization of the server guide

ACTION: mathiaz to update the support section

==== nagios3 in main ====

Koon reported that nagios3 had been promoted to main. mathiaz seeded the
packages on the server cd replacing the nagios2 packages.

==== Ubuntu Server Survey ====

nijaba announced that the Ubuntu Server survey had been launched. So far it
got more than 2000 full replies. The result will be published before UDS. The
survey will be closed on the last week of November. He also added that the
launch plan was working well. Digging it[2] is welcome !

ACTION: kirkland to blog about the server survey

[2]: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Server_survey_launched

==== Beta Freeze and release ====

mathiaz reminded that the archive was frozen in preparation for Beta scheduled
for Thursday. As usual iso testing is coordinated on the Iso testing
tracker[3].

[3]: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/

==== Automatic RAID install ====

mathiaz reported that partman-auto-raid had been promoted to main and was now
on the server iso. RAID installation can now be automated via preseeding.

==== DRBD ====

ivoks reported that DRBD was broken in Intrepid. The kernel module (8.2.6)
isn't working with the tools (8.0.12) currently in the archive. He also added
that updating the tools to 8.2.6 wouldn't fix the issue. He successfully
tested 8.2.7rc1 (both for the kernel module and the userspace tools).

ACTION: ivoks to send the drbd patch to the ubuntu-kernel mailing list to get
8.2.7rc1 in intrepid

ACTION: ivoks to upload 8.2.7 tools to a PPA ready for testing and sponsoring

==== Agree on next meeting date and time ====

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 7th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

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Server Team 20080930 meeting minutes
 

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20080930.


==== Ubuntu vm builder ====

soren uploaded a new version that only fixes bugs. mathiaz asked about the
supported images. soren said that xen had been supported for a few weeks now.
He added that there was some interest to get virtualbox supported as well. For
vmware nijaba stated that player, workstation and server should work. For ESX
it may need a manual conversion with tools provided by VMware. Testing on
these platforms is welcome.

nijaba has updated the the JeOS VmBuilder tutorial[1] and would like to get
some feedback on it.

[1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOSVMBuilder

==== JeOS for Intrepid ====

mathiaz noted that the JeOS iso won't be produced for Intrepid. JeOS is
instead an option when booting the -server installer by pressing F4 at the
first screen. JeOS has also been renamed to Minimal Install.

However the linux-image-virtual kernel meta package isn't available. The
-server flavor is installed instead. soren is working on getting the virtual
meta packages ready. mathiaz asked whether something else had to be done in
the installer to get the virtual flavor installed. soren said the virtual
flavor should be seeded but wasn't sure if the installer code had to be
updated.

==== Review ServerGuide for Intrepid ====

mathiaz reviewed the ldap section. He is planning on doing more testing to
cover the replication section.

ACTION: sommer to update the JeOS and installation sections

ACTION: zul to do review of the virtualization of the server guide

ACTION: mathiaz to update the support section

==== nagios3 in main ====

Koon reported that nagios3 had been promoted to main. mathiaz seeded the
packages on the server cd replacing the nagios2 packages.

==== Ubuntu Server Survey ====

nijaba announced that the Ubuntu Server survey had been launched. So far it
got more than 2000 full replies. The result will be published before UDS. The
survey will be closed on the last week of November. He also added that the
launch plan was working well. Digging it[2] is welcome !

ACTION: kirkland to blog about the server survey

[2]: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Server_survey_launched

==== Beta Freeze and release ====

mathiaz reminded that the archive was frozen in preparation for Beta scheduled
for Thursday. As usual iso testing is coordinated on the Iso testing
tracker[3].

[3]: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/

==== Automatic RAID install ====

mathiaz reported that partman-auto-raid had been promoted to main and was now
on the server iso. RAID installation can now be automated via preseeding.

==== DRBD ====

ivoks reported that DRBD was broken in Intrepid. The kernel module (8.2.6)
isn't working with the tools (8.0.12) currently in the archive. He also added
that updating the tools to 8.2.6 wouldn't fix the issue. He successfully
tested 8.2.7rc1 (both for the kernel module and the userspace tools).

ACTION: ivoks to send the drbd patch to the ubuntu-kernel mailing list to get
8.2.7rc1 in intrepid

ACTION: ivoks to upload 8.2.7 tools to a PPA ready for testing and sponsoring

==== Agree on next meeting date and time ====

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 7th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:50:35 -0400
Mathias Gug <mathiaz@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> ==== DRBD ====
>
> ivoks reported that DRBD was broken in Intrepid. The kernel module
> (8.2.6) isn't working with the tools (8.0.12) currently in the
> archive. He also added that updating the tools to 8.2.6 wouldn't fix
> the issue. He successfully tested 8.2.7rc1 (both for the kernel
> module and the userspace tools).
>
> ACTION: ivoks to send the drbd patch to the ubuntu-kernel mailing
> list to get 8.2.7rc1 in intrepid
>
> ACTION: ivoks to upload 8.2.7 tools to a PPA ready for testing and
> sponsoring

After a week of debugging, solution was trivial. There's no need to
move to 8.2.7rc1, since we don't get any benefits from it. I've
uploaded userspace tools to my ppa[1], so feel free to review it.
Basically, there is only one very small change compared to our already
existing diff with Debian in Hardy. No kernel change is needed.

This problem was caused by a small change in Ubuntu's kernel, that we
weren't aware of. Drbd's kernel connector ID in Hardy was 0x4, while it
got changed to 0x6 during Intrepid's kernel development. This produced
problems, since userspace tools were still compiling with 0x4 as a
connector ID. That's why userspace couldn't connect driver (as
described in [2]). In Intrepid's kernel, 0x4 ID was assigned to
framebuffer device.

I strongly suggest uploading new version of drbd8 in Intrepid. For one,
current userspace tools are unusable, and, we can't guarantee that
drbd8-utils can't do some harm to frame buffer device :D

IMHO, this bugs shows that there is room for improvement of
communication between kernel and server team.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ivoks/+archive
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271254

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