Hi all,
unfortunately I have to inform you, that rsync.opensuse.org is down
since this evening ~17.00 CEST.
The machine is a server which was donated by SUSE Linux GmbH. The rack
space, power and uplink was donated by QSC AG datacenter in Nuremberg
(former IP-Exchange).
What happened:
I tried to do a kernel update of the machine and now it doesn't come
back to life. As this machine is in an external DC, we need to drive
there, as we don't have out-of-band-management possibilities in the
sponsored rack of QSC AG.
What's the impact of this:
rsync.opensuse.org is down, which means that all unauthorized
rsync-mirrors of openSUSE (which are not in the whitelist on
stage.opensuse.org), are not able to sync from us at the moment.
Furthermore rsync.opensuse.org is used as first push mirror usually by
the OBS, which means that all clients which access download.opensuse.org
via HTTP get redirected to rsync.opensuse.org by mirrorbrain, as long as
the other servers in the world are syncing the newest updates and have
it not yet ready.
In summary:
- non-whitelisted rsync-mirrors can't mirror at the moment
- Users will feel a performance drop for installing and
downloading updates because they are redirected to
downloadcontent.opensuse.org, the mirror in our office datacenter in
Nuremberg with limited Uplink capacities, until other mirrors and the
scanning caught up with the changes.
- This affects -indeed- every package updated in the OBS which is not
published below this path: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ -
including Updates, Tumbleweed and Leap snapshots
Mitigation:
In the end, running this on an old SUSE-donated machine with a lot of
spinning slow disks, is not matching the performance needs of the
machine. So there need to be a final and well-engineered solution for
this. Which was, until now, always out of scope of any budget.
As a quick fix, somebody needs to drive to the data centre and
investigate the machine. I'm willing to help, but I'm not driving those
60km again on my private expense, as I did last time. Sorry.
On behalf of the openSUSE Heroes team.
Best regards,
--
Thorsten Bro