Planning to upgrade to a 6.1.2 kernel Friday 1/6 at 11pm Pacific Time.  The present kernel, 6.0.15 has a nasty bug where it locks hard, no kernel dump, no auto reboot, no magic sys request key, only power cycling the affected machine restores service.  The inability to get a kernel dump makes this bug particularly difficult to troubleshoot.  Since this bug has persisted from 6.0.12, I’m going to try a 6.1 kernel and hope for better.

     This will result in outages between 11pm-11:30pm of all services lasting about 5-10 minutes each EXCEPT for yacy which takes close to 45 minutes to rebuild it’s database after every reboot.

     This will affect all of Eskimo North’s paid services such as mail, web hosting, virtual private servers, shell accounts, etc, as well as our free services including https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and as I mentioned, https://yacy.eskimo.com/.