Server outage

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Anne Nicolas

From sysadmin team

Update 2011/12/29 00:30 UTC: Main server is now back and we have fixed everything.

Update 2011/12/20 15:30 UTC: Mageia website has been migrated to an other server. Mailing lists are still offline. We are still working on it.
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Last night, around 00:40 CET, the main server of zarb.org, which still hosts some of the mageia services, suffered from serious I/O problems on the boot volume of the raid array. One of the admins decided to reboot it hoping this could solve the problem, but the server was not able to start up and the various remote control systems (serial cable, admin card) are not sufficient to solve this problem. Zarb.org admins have contacted Lost Oasis (who offers hosting to Mageia.Org and Zarb.org) to find a solution. Since the servers are in south of France, few people of the team can access it without a long travel.

We have no ETA to give for now. The known impacted services are:

  • some of the mailing lists (at least mageia-dev, mageia-discuss and some others)
  • the main website (www.mageia.org)
  • the old wiki (new one on wiki.mageia.org is fine).

The build system as well as all other websites are working fine. All data is safe on a backup on another server, but without physical access and spare drives we cannot do much for the server.

Feel free to ask on IRC (#mageia or #mageia-dev on irc.freenode.net) if you have any questions. We will update this post as soon as we have more information.

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Next step – Alpha 2 is ready to test

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Patricia Fraser

Here’s the next milestone on the way to Mageia 2 – Alpha 2 ISOs are ready for download.

More than ever we need you to test, test, test and report bugs.

Check the wiki links for:

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on Alpha 1. Please do it again for Alpha 2!

Note: Accidentally, x86_64 DVD ISOs were uploaded yesterday, that didn’t even boot. Please redownload the new ISOs, if you already downloaded those. There’s been an update to the Errata to help those folks who were caught by this.

 

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Mageia at JDLL 2011

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Patricia Fraser

The JDLL took place in Lyon, France on the 18th and 19th of November. Mageia was there.


The JDLL (« Journées du logiciel libre », i.e. “Free Software Days”) are an annual event organised in Lyon by ALDIL (a Lyon-based association promoting the development of free computing): talks, workshops and business and association booths.

Some contributors were there to represent Mageia at our distribution’s booth:

  • Adrien Gallou (agallou)
  • Rémi Verschelde (Akien)
  • Samuel Verschelde (Stormi)

There were also other members of the community, especially Michaël Scherer (misc) on the JabberFr.org booth, and Daniel Tartavel (who helped us with logistics assistance) on the booth of LibrePC. [1]

To help us break the ice with the visitors, we displayed these lines on our demonstration screen:
Mageia screenshot with information
We wanted to give out free installation CDs (and some DVDs) to the visitors interested in Mageia, to encourage its spreading. We made some with our own stuff, since there are no official materials for Mageia yet.

The CDs given out the first day, burned and designed by Adrien:

Mageia CD

The CDs which were distributed the second day, provided by Daniel:

Mageia CD

Visitors were quite diverse, ranging from neophytes with no knowledge of Linux to advanced users asking for support on a specific subject.

A local mailing list project was conceived during these two days, dedicated to Mageia users from Lyon and its surroundings. The list aims to ease the process of organising install parties and RPM workshops, and also to enable us to support each other. Some users who were interested in it have already given us their emails so that we can notify them if the project becomes a reality.

Finally, these two days enabled us to spread the word about Mageia and to show it as a major distribution (one of the 4 distributions which were represented, along with Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu), to meet more people from the free software community of Lyon and its surroundings, and to have a good time.

[1] LibrePC is Daniel’s shop in Lyon specialising in Linux and free software.

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Looking better and better

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Patricia Fraser

Mageia 1 looks quite amazingly handsome, doesn’t it?

Looking back, what we achieved is impressive, especially when you consider the size of the artwork team and how new something like this was to us. It was a bit of a mad scramble to get it all done in time – and somehow we made it, even though there were only a few of us.

Thanks go out to all of the people who helped with Mageia 1. It was very much appreciated – and hopefully will be again soon!

Now we’re a real team, thanks in large part to our leader TeaAge; we have a good structure, and we’re properly up and running.

With Mageia 1 out in the wild, it’s time to turn our attention to Mageia 2. Using what we’ve learned and our new expertise, we aim to make Mageia 2 very pretty indeed.

Our call now is to anyone and everyone who has anything to contribute: please get involved!

No matter whether you have finished artwork, a vague idea, a basic sketch… please share it, so we can all look at each others’ work, finish what needs finishing and build it into Mageia 2. We’re gathering ideas as much as we’re getting the final pieces done, so if your work is still in progress, post it and tell us where you see it going.

We need: wallpapers, icon sets, themes, colour schemes or just your lovely constructive criticism.

What to do and where to go to help:

There’s now a group on flickr where you can post your work.

There’ s a thread on the Mageia Forum.

Check the Mageia wiki for some useful info.

And last but not least, the licensing info can be found here.

We look forward to seeing your work and your ideas.

PS: If you don’t want to sign up to flickr, you can either post links to your artwork in the forum thread (see the link above), or send links to the artwork mailing list.

The Mageia Artwork team

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Mageia 2 Alpha 1 – ready for testing!

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Patricia Fraser

We’re all excited today! We’re at the first milestone on our way to Mageia 2 – Alpha 1 ISOs are ready for download.

Now it’s time for everyone to test, test, test and report bugs – so that Mageia 2 will be in great shape for release in May. You will find more info on our freshly migrated wiki:

Enjoy!

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