sonance.tech.news

wordpress mu updated to 2.8.1

berniq — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:17:33 +0000

again .. wordpress mu was upgraded to the latest version

wordpress mu update to 2.7.1

berniq — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:55:04 +0000

blogs where upgrade to wordpress mu 2.7.1 today

first we ran into trouble with the DB-upgrade, but after awhile and waiting for the scripts to finish – everything seems to be fine.

if you experience problems on blogs.sonance.net please contact us: webmeister (AT) sonance (DOT) at

up again, database recovered

iang — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:49:12 +0000

after a long night of beer blah hack splice graft perl miceql grunge splech pizza argh art blech … the database has been recovered.

There may be errors or lost data … please let the support or stuff or tech lists know.

Also the security updates were done on the raw machine … hold your breath!

sonance outage 200900218

iang — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:49:43 +0000

Sonance technical services suffered a complete outage today until 13:30 or so when the machine was rebooted. Our thanks to Matthias for tramping through the snow to shiver for a while in the cold damp Keller poking at frozen iron.

Basic issue looks like an IRQ failure on the machine. Kernels were running (accepting connnections, returning pings) but no userland was getting any attention (no SSH, no keyboard on console!!!).

Note that the database failure of last weekend is still with us, so many user processes are broken (evolve, php applications). The basic issue here is that the passwords were all lost from the database, and we can’t figure out how to restore them from a backup as yet . . . We’ll look at it tonight at our meeting and try and script our way through the MySQL jungle.

housing-related Outage

iang — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:58:11 +0000

Sonance suffered another housing-related outage again. According to Matthias G who went down to the Krypta, the machine has been moved from one place to another, and whoever moved the machine did not plug in the network cable.

Stuff that happens……..

Blogs up, evolve up, mailing lists up… Actually they never went down

website down

berniq — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:04:39 +0000

As of last weekend, all websites are down due to a hack. Apologies.

The problem is a lot of the websites are old and unmaintained. We cannot see which ones, and we cannot fix them. As there are hundreds of websites, it is beyond our capacity to keep them going or secure them.

So they must be the responsibility of each site owner. In order to deal with this general problem, the board met last wednesday and voted on a general policy of membership requirements. See an email post thursday.

Therefore two things are required for each website:

a systems administrator needs to be identified and responsible for the security of the site
a member needs to sponsor in some sense or other the site

For Membership, see the email sent out by doris.

wordpress mu updated

berniq — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:01:45 +0000

today this server (blogs.sonance.net) was upgraded to the lastest version of wordpress mu 2.6

one more thing, needed to be done for a long time …

… the database and wordpress was upgraded to UTF8.

Wordpress Mu update

berniq — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:12:03 +0000

just upgraded wordpress mu to version 1.5.1

new interface
mhh the visual-editor is not working well in opera 9.5 on OSX …..

LDAP hack day (1)

iang — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:53:04 +0000

We (foo, iang, binsh, martin) got together at Philip’s place 2nd May and had another go at getting LDAP moved. Progress:

extracted and modified for new home into Roy
Loaded up and running
Databases extracted…
Tech tech fed and watered (thanks to Delfine)

Things left to do: resolve the Bind <–> LDAP connection, set up Roy as DNS, try it all…

blogs update: moved to another server + upgraded

berniq — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:19 +0000

today the blog-service of sonance was successfuly moved to another machine and upgraded to the lastest version of wordpress-mu.

happy blogging.

yours, bernhard