Taking Zorin down for about an hour to image the machine and to enlarge the virtual disk and root partition to accommodate additional software installation.

     The backups are done and Zorin is restored to service.

     Going to take Zorin down for about 40 minutes to image the machine so I don’t lose work I’ve done on it.

     The older elm, mush, nmh, metamail, and pine are all installed on Zorin.

    I added 100GB to the guest disk image to allow for more software to be installed and also increased RAM from 4GB to 16GB as the machine is starting to get a bit more use and I want to have it run briskly.

     Taking Zorin down for about 15 minutes to add disk space.

     The imaging of Zorin is completed and it has been returned to service.

     I am taking Zorin down for about 1/2 hour to image the machine so I don’t lose any recent work I’ve done on the machine.

     The most recent build of x2go corrected the xrandr version issue so it is no longer necessary to resize your screen with xrandr, it will size automatically or manually via the normal menus.

     There is however a strange bug in the new version that causes it to wedge occasionally.  A session will be disconnected and when you try to reconnect you will see this:

     If you get this please notify support@eskimo.com or call 206-812-0051 as the server will remain wedged until we take manual action.  I have reported this to the developers of x2go.

     Mint.eskimo.com, my problem child server, is having issues.  I’m trying to install a new version of X2go but it’s telling me I can’t because I have held broken packages, however, I have neither held nor broken packages.  Something in the apt database has gotten corrupted.

     I’m going to boot the server from a backup image as soon as it finishes uncompressing and then re-apply updates.  So in the next half hour or so Mint will reboot and then it will come up on a somewhat older version of itself.  This will have no effect on your files, e-mail, databases, etc, as they are all kept on separate servers that are on RAID10 disk arrays and backed up with dump so I can retrieve individual files if need be.