Hi,
Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the
present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises
the main issue ( s/w ).
We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb.
They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months
back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin
CentOS-DS / openldap based backend.
So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these
international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there
is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list )
- phpBB
- SMF
- Fudforum
- phorum
- fluxbb
Requirements:
- Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs )
- Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in
writing the ldap-auth portion )
- Must address the specific requirements raised by the present
www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? )
- Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good )
- Secure
- Skin'able
Nice to have:
- Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment
- responsive community :D
Things we will need to do:
- Decide on what s/w to use.
- Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted.
- Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is
a language too :D ).
- Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w
- setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org
Actions:
Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server,
once that is online we will then start by installing into our
test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them.
If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in.
I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to
track progress.
--
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
> On 8/25/20 11:21 AM, Theodor Mittermair wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to inquire about the status of the "dlm" package on Centos 8,
>> which is required for using 'lvmlockd', replacement of 'clvmd'.
>> I also asked on #centos irc channel and was directed to this mailing list
>> There is a corresponding bug ticket [2] for this issue for quite some
>> time, but since the end-of-life of CentOS 6 grows closer, some people
>> would like to replace their CentOS 6 Cluster with a CentOS 8 one, which
>> is why I ask on this mailing list now.
>>
>> With the release of CentOS 8.0 it seems there were some issues with
>> HighAvailability in general [1], but seem to have been resolved with
>> CentOS 8.1.
>>
>> However, as already mentioned there is a separate ticket [2], for the
>> dlm package, which is unresolved as far ( 2020-08-25, Centos8.2 ) as i
>> am aware.
>> This prevents the use of clustered lvm and gfs2 out of the box, not an
>> uncommon use when configuring a HA Cluster, also described by RedHat
>> documentation [3].
>> In that tickets' conversation, it is mentioned that "that package is not
>> in RHEL .. we have released what is in RHEL", however someone else
>> seemed to have been in contact with RedHat and received information that
>> "...this package is in fact part of a RedHat repository and then CentOS
>> members should be able to take a look into it again...".
>>
>> I'd also like to bring attention to the following explicitly:
>> * dlm-lib and dlm seem to be built from the same source rpm, dlm-lib is
>> available while dlm is not.
>> * apparently at some point in time dlm could be downloaded from koji
>> [4], but no more. For testing purposes we built dlm ourselves, locally
>> as well as on copr [5], which seems to work thus far.
>> * fedora (however much this might mean) provides dlm.
>> * It might just be a configuration error on the build system, if I
>> understood correctly, there was/is larger amounts of restructuring. Also
>> see chders' post from 2020-08-21 [2], which provides a possible
>> explanation and solution.
>>
>> For completeness, you should be able reproduce the absence of that
>> package with:
>> "yum --disablerepo='*'
>> --enablerepo=BaseOS,AppStream,HighAvailability,epel,cr,centosplus,PowerTools,Devel,extras,fasttrack
>> list available | grep dlm"
>> or simply attempt to
>> "yum install dlm"
>> on your CentOS 8.x Installation.
>>
>> Therefore, I would like to ask:
>> Is this an error on my end, am I doing something wrong or missing a
>> configuration?
>> If no, is there actually any political/technical/administrative/law
>> based reason for the unavailability of the "dlm" package?
>> If no, according to recent posts on the ticket [2], there might be a
>> rather simple solution (simplified, declaring the package to be included
>> in a repository), is it valid and who could do this if applicable?
>>
>> with best regards
>> Theodor Mittermair
>> <https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=4801>
>> [1] https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16553
>> [2] https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16939
>> [3]
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/ht…
>> [4] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=145
>> [5] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/astra/dlm/
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS-devel mailing list
>> CentOS-devel at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
>>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Some clarity will follow on how we plan to deliver Addon repositories
> like ResilientStorage, HighAvailability and NFV.
>
> Because of Red Hat’s desire to develop Addons along with the next minor
> release of RHEL our plan is to enable ResilientStorage and NFV in CentOS
> Stream for direct consumption.
>
> If you think a package belongs in another repository, we encourage you
> to open a CentOS Stream bugzilla to discuss with RHEL maintainers:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20…
>
> We do not plan to expand the portfolio of Addons for CentOS Linux.
>
> If there is a group of interested folks who wish to maintain extra
> content built against CentOS Linux, you may apply for a Special Interest
> Group: https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide
>
> Cheers!
> --Brian
My apologies as I just subscribed to this list, I'll likely break the thread up. I did my best to contain relevance above.
First question, the statement ""...Resilient Storage is not base...". There has been a shift from 7 to 8 that I don't understand. RHEL 7 provides dlm in ResilientStorage, then CentOS 7 provides dlm in base [1]. The dlm package is still part of ResilientStorage in RHEL 8, but can't be provided? I wasn't able to find any answer to why that was changed. Can you provide any insight to the shift?
Second question, the current advice seems to be "dlm will be in centos-stream and you should use that." However, tdawson made a pretty explicit statement: "If people are running their production machines on CentOS Stream ... well, in my opinion, that's their problem."[2] These statements appear contradictory.
Just trying to piece this all together so I can explain to my peers the business and community decisions going on here.
Currently someone that set up a cluster with gfs2 in 7 can't do the same thing in 8 due to the dlm package missing. That is a loss of functionality and seems to indicate it's a bug or intentional reduction in feature set.
If I'm misunderstanding any of this please educate me.
Thank you,
Judd
[1] http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/os/x86_64/Packages/dlm-4.0.7-1.el7.x86_…
[2] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-July/037034.html
Can the below be fixed ? I guess this package should not be in both repos...
# yum update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:10:02 ago on Fri 28 Aug 2020 23:47:51 BST.
Error:
Problem 1: package
plasma-workspace-geolocation-5.18.4.1-2.epel8.playground.x86_64
requires libgps.so.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be
installed
- cannot install both gpsd-libs-3.18.1-2.epel8.playground.1.x86_64
and gpsd-libs-3.19-4.el8.1.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
plasma-workspace-geolocation-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
gpsd-libs-3.19-4.el8.1.x86_64
Problem 2: problem with installed package gpsd-libs-3.19-4.el8.1.x86_64
- cannot install both gpsd-libs-3.18.1-2.epel8.playground.1.x86_64
and gpsd-libs-3.19-4.el8.1.x86_64
- cannot install both gpsd-libs-3.19-4.el8.1.x86_64 and
gpsd-libs-3.18.1-2.epel8.playground.1.x86_64
- package plasma-workspace-geolocation-5.18.4.1-2.epel8.playground.x86_64
requires libgps.so.24()(64bit), but none of the providers can be
installed
- package plasma-workspace-geolocation-libs-5.18.4.1-2.epel8.playground.x86_64
requires plasma-workspace-geolocation = 5.18.4.1-2.epel8.playground,
but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
plasma-workspace-geolocation-libs-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
# yum info plasma-workspace-geolocation
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:17 ago on Fri 28 Aug 2020 23:47:51 BST.
Installed Packages
Name : plasma-workspace-geolocation
Version : 5.18.4.1
Release : 2.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 206 k
Source : plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
>From repo : epel
Summary : Plasma5 geolocation components
URL : https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git
License : GPLv2+
Description : Plasma5 geolocation components.
Available Packages
Name : plasma-workspace-geolocation
Version : 5.18.4.1
Release : 2.epel8.playground
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 87 k
Source : plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.epel8.playground.src.rpm
Repository : epel-playground
Summary : Plasma5 geolocation components
URL : https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git
License : GPLv2+
Description : Plasma5 geolocation components.
I have noticed some email announcements missing recently. Just to
mention a few, the 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7, 2.6.32-754.31.1.el6, and
2.6.32-754.33.1.el6 kernels. I'm just wondering if there was a reason
behind this I wasn't aware of or if it was a fluke or whatever.
As to the RSS feed for 8, I'm using feeds.centos.org/ via liferea and
some updates come weeks after. Is this a known issue or is my setup
perhaps broken? Does anyone else see the same behavior?
Thanks for all the hard work!
Hi Folks,
We'd like to announce an outage window from Noon to 13:00 UTC on
Thursday, 03-Sept-2020 for our services in the RDU2 Community Cage.
This includes ci.centos.org, apps.ci.centos.org, apps.ocp.ci.centos.org,
and cbs.centos.org
During this period we expect intermittent network disconnects while our
switches receive firmware upgrades.
Thank you for your patience while we complete this maintenance.
--Brian
On 8.2, with modular virt installed OR switching to
centos-release-advanced-virtualization I am seeing
qemu-kvm: error: failed to set MSR 0x48e to 0xfff9fffe04006172
when trying to create a VM with virt-install on a Dell PowerEdge R630
with a Xeon E5-2640. The command works on a desktop Haswell.
There was such a bug in RH bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1738741 but that is about
nested virtualisation and L1->L1 migration with a L2 guest. I am not
doing any such magick, just a plain L1 VM.
I tried reloading kvm_intel with pml=0 but got the same error.
qemu-kvm-4.2.0-19.el8.x86_64
libvirt-6.0.0-17.el8.x86_64
Any ideas? (See below, does intel_iommu have to be on?)
The CPU type is
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 63
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz
stepping : 2
microcode : 0x43
cpu MHz : 2809.143
cache size : 20480 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 16
core id : 0
cpu cores : 8
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 15
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts
rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq
dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm
pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes
xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti
ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase
tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm xsaveopt cqm_llc
cqm_occup_llc dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass
l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit
bogomips : 5200.46
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
# virt-host-validate
QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm exists
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm is accessible
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/vhost-net exists
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/net/tun exists
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpu' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'memory' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'devices' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'blkio' controller support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking for device assignment IOMMU support
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if IOMMU is enabled by kernel
: WARN (IOMMU appears to be disabled in kernel. Add
intel_iommu=on to kernel cmdline arguments)
Hello,
I'd like to inquire about the status of the "dlm" package on Centos 8,
which is required for using 'lvmlockd', replacement of 'clvmd'.
I also asked on #centos irc channel and was directed to this mailing list
There is a corresponding bug ticket [2] for this issue for quite some
time, but since the end-of-life of CentOS 6 grows closer, some people
would like to replace their CentOS 6 Cluster with a CentOS 8 one, which
is why I ask on this mailing list now.
With the release of CentOS 8.0 it seems there were some issues with
HighAvailability in general [1], but seem to have been resolved with
CentOS 8.1.
However, as already mentioned there is a separate ticket [2], for the
dlm package, which is unresolved as far ( 2020-08-25, Centos8.2 ) as i
am aware.
This prevents the use of clustered lvm and gfs2 out of the box, not an
uncommon use when configuring a HA Cluster, also described by RedHat
documentation [3].
In that tickets' conversation, it is mentioned that "that package is not
in RHEL .. we have released what is in RHEL", however someone else
seemed to have been in contact with RedHat and received information that
"...this package is in fact part of a RedHat repository and then CentOS
members should be able to take a look into it again...".
I'd also like to bring attention to the following explicitly:
* dlm-lib and dlm seem to be built from the same source rpm, dlm-lib is
available while dlm is not.
* apparently at some point in time dlm could be downloaded from koji
[4], but no more. For testing purposes we built dlm ourselves, locally
as well as on copr [5], which seems to work thus far.
* fedora (however much this might mean) provides dlm.
* It might just be a configuration error on the build system, if I
understood correctly, there was/is larger amounts of restructuring. Also
see chders' post from 2020-08-21 [2], which provides a possible
explanation and solution.
For completeness, you should be able reproduce the absence of that
package with:
"yum --disablerepo='*'
--enablerepo=BaseOS,AppStream,HighAvailability,epel,cr,centosplus,PowerTools,Devel,extras,fasttrack
list available | grep dlm"
or simply attempt to
"yum install dlm"
on your CentOS 8.x Installation.
Therefore, I would like to ask:
Is this an error on my end, am I doing something wrong or missing a
configuration?
If no, is there actually any political/technical/administrative/law
based reason for the unavailability of the "dlm" package?
If no, according to recent posts on the ticket [2], there might be a
rather simple solution (simplified, declaring the package to be included
in a repository), is it valid and who could do this if applicable?
with best regards
Theodor Mittermair
<https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=4801>
[1] https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16553
[2] https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16939
[3]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/ht…
[4] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=145
[5] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/astra/dlm/
Is there anything I can do to help out with missing -devel packages in CentOS
8? I'm waiting for a number of them, e.g.:
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17401
Thanks,
Orion
--
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Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637
NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/
---
title: CPE Weekly status email
tags: CPE Weekly, email
---
# CPE Weekly: 2020-08-14
Background:
The Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short, is the Red
Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS.
Our goal is to keep core servers and services running and maintained,
build releases, and other strategic tasks that need more dedicated
time than volunteers can give.
See our wiki page here for more
information:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/
## General Project Updates
The CPE team are working on the following projects for Quarter 3,
which is the months of July, August & September:
* Data Centre Move - Final Works
* CentOS Stream Phase 3
* Noggin Phase 3
* Packager Workflow Healthcare
* Fedora Messaging Schemas
Details of the above projects, and of projects currently in progress,
done and what projects are in our backlog, can be found on our taiga
board per project card:
https://tree.taiga.io/project/amoloney1-cpe-team-projects/kanban?epic=null
We also have an updated initiative timetable for briefing in new
projects to our team & key dates
here:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
*Note: Initiatives are large pieces of work that require a team of
people and weeks/months to complete. Please continue to open tickets
in the normal way for bugs, issues, etc.
### CPE Product Owner Office Hours
#### #fedora-meeting-1
* Weekly on Thursdays @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1
* Next Meeting: 2020-08-20
#### #centos-meeting
* Every second Tuesday @ 1500 UTC on #centos-meeting
* Next Meeting: 2020-08-18
### Misc
#### Nest With Fedora Note
Thank you to everyone who attended Nest With Fedora over the weekend
and engaged with us during our talks and social sessions. It was a
fantastic event, very well put together and run by the Fedora team and
it was both my pleasure and honour to have been a part of what was a
fantastic schedule! I cant wait to catch up on talks I missed when
they are uploaded, and the CPE team, with thanks to Michal Konecny who
put the structure of our piece together, will be submitting a
collaborative blog post to the Community blog space in the coming
weeks, recapping our experience at Nest this year. Well done Marie
Nordin, Matthew Miller and the wider team, and our very own Vipul
Siddarth, on what was a very successful and enjoyable event!
#### Engagement Email Feedback
At the beginning of July I sent an email to devel-announce requesting
feedback from the community on changes I and the wider CPE team have
made when scheduling projects to work on, in an effort to find the
balance between work and life. We are still searching :)
However, I got some very good tips that I will definitely be
incorporating which I shared at Nest during the CPE AMA Session and in
reply to the original mail.
The link to the mails are here for full reading
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedorapr…
But the suggestions and actions are here for quicker reference:
Continue to communicate regularly on projects & updates
- Will do, weekly emails have been a bit more sporadic lately as I have had
some time off
Less acronyms & abbreviations in comms :)
- Sure, that's an easy fix on my end and makes sense
Publish team members timezone on docs.fpo/cpe to help define our ‘working
hours’
- Will do, I hope to get to this by end of August and they will be
reflected on docs.fpo/cpe
Publish the workflow diagram to docs.fpo/cpe and add filtered versions that
are user specific
- Same as above, publishing it on docs.fpo/cpe-initiatives
Office Hours on IRC are a useful way to contact team Product Owner
- Great to hear, please feel free to stop by when you can/want to. They are
on Thursdays @ 1300 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1 and every second Tuesday @
1500 UTC on #centos-meeting
Public tracker for bugs
- Our team meets twice a day, every day on IRC to review tickets and issues
to work on. They meet @ 0830 UTC on #centos-meeting and again @ 1800 UTC on
#fedora-admin. These are public meetings so please feel free to attend.
If you would like to offer any further suggestions or feedback on the
Community Platform Engineering team, please feel free to complete our
survey which is open until August 30th
https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/696793?lang=en
## Fedora Updates
### Data Centre Move
* Nearly done!!!!!!
* Firewalls for staging are going up this week
* Last of the hardware has been set up for networking changes
* The bringup of Communishift is being made into a dedicated project
for work as soon as the team have capacity to do so - this may be in
late September as the members of the colo team will (hopefully) take
some very well deserved time off work before tackling this one :)
### AAA Replacement
* Some of the Noggin team have been enjoying some very well deserved
time off work over the last week or two so work has, naturally slowed.
* The code is currently being security audited by Patrick Uiterwijk,
thank you Patrick!
* Next steps will be to successfully deploy Noggin to staging when it
has been brought back up - we are estimating this to be late next week
* Once Noggin has been deployed to staging, we would love some
community feedback on the application and its performance. We will be
emailing the infra/devel lists on when to test and how to give us
feedback when we are fully deployed in stg.
* In the meantime. Please feel free to check out the team kanban board
for more information on the features the team are working on and have
already completed here https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/6
### Fedora Messaging Schemas
* This project is being worked on by the same team as Noggin, so there
has been some progress made but not a lot as team members enjoy some
holidays
* The team have already built a list of applications that require
messaging schemas, list can be found here
https://hackmd.io/@nilsph/H1i8CAbkP/edit
* They also have completed a readme which contains documentation on
messaging schemas, a cookie-cutter template to create the schema and a
definition of Done for writing a schemas
https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-messaging-schemas-issues
* The board they are working from can be viewed here
https://github.com/orgs/fedora-infra/projects/7
### Packager Workflow Healthcare
* Project information: This is an investigative project that aims to
look at the entire packager workflow as a single piece of tooling to
identify where failures happen, and try to identify when and why
packages fail at different points within the workflow. We hope to have
two possible outcomes from this project at the end of the quarter
(September):
* The workflow breaks at X point and we will work on a solution to fix
* OR
* The workflow works fine, but we will need better monitoring on
the pipeline so we will work on a solution for this
* The team are using this Monitor-Script
https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/monitor-gating/ and are making
improvements to it on resiliency/reliability.
* They are finishing the investigation phase of the project and are
going to document the packager workflow (with graphs I have been
promised!) showcasing how the different systems interact with one
another
* And are working on an outline of the workflow steps (from packager
PoV) and systems involved (CPE team PoV), identifying metrics to be
measured
* The teams work is being tracked here
https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/cpe-cicd/kanban
## CentOS Updates
### CentOS
* CentOS-infra team have created a ticket board, check it out here
https://pagure.io/centos-infra/boards/CentOS%20CI%20Infra
* CBS Koji x86 builders moved to new(er) infrastructure
(https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-August/055988.html)
* The team also caught up C6, C7 and C8 Linux .. 2 outstanding
Bootstrap Modules for C8 Linux (eclipse and the latest rust-toolset).
### CentOS Stream
* Not too much to report this week - The team are mostly working on
developing utility scripts that will ease the CentOS 8 and CentOS
Stream packaging workflow and business as usual updates to CentOS
Stream.
As always, feedback is welcome, and we will continue to look at ways
to improve the delivery and readability of this weekly report.
Have a great week!
Aoife
Source: https://hackmd.io/8iV7PilARSG68Tqv8CzKOQ?view
--
Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford