03 Tuesday
- went to Markham campus to fill out paperwork for HR.
- troubleshooting builds. Packages needing gcc, which needs binutils, builds to solve dependencies.
- meeting with Chris.
04 Wednesday
- troubleshooting build failures, gcc not building.
- troubleshooting space issue on arm5, arm6. No root fs mounted
- work on solving gcc deps.
- proposal for fsoss
05 Thursday
- attempting to track down issue with gcc
- builds of additional packages required
- edit build-previous.py script to change naming
06 Friday
- work on back procedure.
- originally attempting to use rsync and ssh keys, but changed due to security.
- started to use bacula
09 Monday
- checked logs for information regarding build failure of gcc
- implemented bacula, problems with version mismatch, resolved.
- edit gcc spec file
- spoke with Dawn regarding IO position.
10 Tuesday
- bacula working for backups, tweaking of backup management
- edit gcc again, another failed build attempt
- final test configuration of bacula completed. Backup scheduled to run weekly full backups every sunday at 9pm, and nightly incremental backups at 11:10PM. File being backed up from hongkong include - /etc, /share/koji, /var/lib/pgsql. Later tweaks will include postgresql dump to be backed up instead of the entire directory. Back ups are compressed with gzip for travel across the network.
- packaging of mkrootfs completed however issues running script. Appears to be intended to run on arm machine rather then x86.
11 Wednesday
- backup job failed to run, no log information as to why, troubleshooting.
- backup jobs edited, problem should now be resolved. Full backup completed. Compressed 27G. Incremental backups each night at 11:05, full backups every sunday at 9pm. Backups are kept for 30 days.
- completed mkrootfs-f12 packaging and testing. works on an arm based system.
12 Thursday
- tweak to mkrootfs rpm to include repo, edit repo so not enabled.
- small tweaks to bacula config files as backup catalog job was not completing successfully.
- upgraded uboot on experimental guru.
- loaded new kernel Chris compiled.
- plug boots!
13 Friday
- tracking down build failures, reasons, where needed uploading new srpm
- problems booting fedora from sd card with new uboot and kernel, will revisit.
- rebuilds of select packages to fix blocking issues.
16 Monday
- tracking build problems, rebuilds of select packages.
- edit python script to prevent error occurring right after pydict. FIXED!
- attempting to boot fedora from sdcard on guruplug. Change uboot, issue still exists.
17 Tuesday
- checked builds from previous night, script stopped with same error, attempt to fix.
- backup of sql database for Bacula not working, created a script to manually dump the bacula db, create folder with current date and insert sql backup.
- problem discovered with arm6, filesystem seems to be corrupted. Taken offline.
- troubleshooting kernel, tried new kernel, same issue with usb not being availible.
18 Wednesday
- arm6 filesystem corrupted, unreadable on another machine. Used another card to get the builder back online. Configured, back online and ready for tasks.
- arm6 not processing tasks, after troubleshooting error was permissions on the filesystem. This change needs to be made each time rootfs used as perms are not correct.