TODO

the formular plugin is giving me errors, need to figure this out (email assignment form)
update grade not-z scripts to handle/be aware of winter terms
update system page for (new)www
~~redo DSLAB tweedledee/tweedledum with squeeze~~ rebuilt tweedledee, tweedledum on the way
- rebuild DSLAB www, irc, auth as squeeze VMs
load balance/replicate www/wiki content between LAIR and DSLAB
adapt LAIR irc and lab46 to use self-contained kernels (how to do this?)
update system page for db
migrate nfs1/nfs2 system page to current wiki
update nfs1/nfs2 to squeeze
flake* multiseat page

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March 29th, 2013

strange keyboard behavior on pod01

Upon coming into the LAIR today, the keyboards on all seats on pod01 were seemingly non-existent. It was soon discovered that they DID work, but you had to press keys down for a long time. Then, once logged in, performance would be restored.

I thought it might have been due to a failing USB dock.

But- after doing a google search, it appears the culprit is “Slow Keys”, a GDM Accessibility feature, somehow turning itself on (this apparently happens enough for a simple google search of “gdm keyboard not working” yielded useful results).

Manually, “Slow Keys” can be toggled by holding down right shift for 10 seconds. Who knows, someone might have accidentally done this.

One suggested solution was to run: xkbset -a, but this did not fix the problem.

What DID fix it was me holding down right shift for 10 seconds. A dialog came up confirming “Slow Keys” was in fact turned on, and I had the option to turn it off. This cleared up the problem on all seats at pod01.

Good to know.

March 18th, 2013

updates

Did some aptitude update && aptitude upgrade action on the following machines:

lab46
irc
www
auth1
auth2
proxy
sokraits
halfadder

slapd manual fix on auth2

Doing updates broke LDAP consumer abilities on auth2… had to go and manually patch and compile packages from source to get it back up and running again.

March 12th, 2013

VM booting problem

http://serverfault.com/questions/315216/xen-4-0-squeeze-fails-to-start-guests-with-launch-vm-setvcpucontext-failed

I hope not, but it did work for www (the only VM exhibiting problems).

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