tl;dr: the Alioth service is back online, on a new host. Make sure you still have your data. What went wrong? Most of the data on vasks was stored on a RAID5. One of the disks in the RAID experienced a small hiccup, leading to it being thrown from the RAID, at which point mdadm started recovery using a hotspare. During this, another disk in the RAID threw hard errors and we were stuck with a non-working RAID. Investigations showed this did not affect the /srv partition, but it affected the PostgreSQL partition. Due to various misconfigurations, we did not have any recent backups of Postgres. How it got fixed Level-28 black voodoo Perl magic by mjt, to extract the contents of a failed RAID array that mdadm would barf on, allowed us to restore the database. Alioth went from a dual-head setup, where part of the services were on vasks.debian.org and part were on wagner.d.o, to a single, more powerful, server called moszumanska.d.o. Much of the data was simply copied over, and some manual reconfiguration was needed to adapt to that setup. You don't want to type that hostname, so please use the functional aliases (git.d.o, alioth.d.o, and so on). What's left to do for you, dear user · Update your SSH known keys. You can find all debian.org ssh hostkeys at [1] or on any debian.org system in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts. Or you could just use the fingerprints in DNS (secured by DNSSEC). · Check your homedir. It should have been copied over from vasks, but make sure nothing is missing. Also, please take the opportunity to clean up obsolete stuff, as we're often bothered by space constraints. · Look in /mnt/home/users, which has a copy of what was on wagner, and grab what you need from there. Note that this mountpoint will disappear soon (in a few weeks at most), so don't delay. Please only copy what's still relevant, for the disk space considerations mentioned above. · Check your scripts and websites. We remind you that Alioth is not meant to be a generic hosting facility, so if you do advanced stuff you're on your own. · Use this opportunity to evaluate your needs and your usage. Alioth is not meant to be a generic hosting facility. Probably much of what is currently hosted on alioth is better suited to living somewhere else, like people.d.o (or a debian.net server, or a debian.org server). If this applies to your project, please get in touch with DSA [2]. · Copy over your crontabs from vasks/wagner. · Check your repositories. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------- [1] https://db.debian.org/debian_known_hosts [2] http://dsa.debian.org/
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