Core Minutes 4/29/2014

• ScienceTools: (Jim) No new development news. Recent updates to tip are not working.

  See Science Tools Development Notes for details.

• FSSC: (Richard for Joe) No news. Just getting ready for next ST release.

• Oracle servers: (Richard) Finally all is nearly ready for the switch over to "new" (we've had them for about a year) servers. Upgrade from Oracle 10 to Oracle 11 and Pipeline upgrades are also in the mix. There will be a meeting Monday to finalize; then most likely outage will begin late Monday. It's expected to take a couple days. Julie & co. have been alerted.

• Reprocessing: (Tom G.) Pass8 reprocessing is about done: just one job (out of a very large number) needs to finish up. There are still mysteries — for example, jobs which run very slowly, but, when rolled back and restarted, behave normally. There was discussion yesterday at C & A concerning catch-up (reprocessing is now complete through June 2013) and, more generally, how often catch-up tasks should be run.

  Pass7 is currently caught up to February of this year. Expect a catch-up task there approximately mid-May.

• Weekend woes: (Tom G.) Several things went blooey:

  • Load balancer (for web servers>
  • Two wain file servers, one serving the user disk, the other serving a code disk
  • fermilnx machines. Among other things, we learned that rebooting the host brings back the resident VMs just as they were. If they were in trouble before the reboot, they will be in the very same trouble after.

  (Richard) Some of these things may be connected to a change in IP address. It seems we can't get through such a change unscathed.

• Core talk:

  • Python (Heather) New release coming soon.

  • Mountain Lion (Tom S.) Builds are working, and nearly error-free [cheers and congratulations from several quarters], the only exception being the package embed_python. There are compile errors when the recommended ordering of certain #include's is in effect. The winning strategy was to switch over to the compiler used on SL6 Linux and recompile the python external. Up till now only LATEST builds have been enabled. Now that it's working he'll enable HEAD and Release builds also.

  • Installer (Heather) Eric has been unable to use the gui installer successfully for Mountain Lion builds; in particular, he's not getting the externals. She has suggested he try the command-line installer; no news yet.

  • ST build disk (u35) bears watching; it's currently at 90%. (Tom S.) Only redhat builds actually take place there; Windows and Mac builds are just copied. We don't yet have automatic clean-up for Jenkins builds (Windows and Mac).

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