I’m on my 4th MOTHERBOARD with the new server, this one I got running last night, it ran all night but crashed at 10:17AM, not the end of the world as I’d not completely dialed in the operating parameters yet, but I powered it down and back up to reboot since it was hung and a puff of smoke came out and that was that.  Some component failed in a spectacular manner.

I have since learned that the Gigabyte board did not boot because it needs a BIOS upgrade for this CPU, so I’m going to re-install it, install the BIOS upgrade and send this Assmoke back to Asrock for repair.

     Replaced the Asus Prime X299 IIA board with an Gigabyte X299 Aorus Master, this board won’t even post.  Says bad memory, but I put in just two modules and no matter what two I tried it would not work, then I tried some Crucial memory I had on hand, it won’t post either, so there is something not right with the motherboard, and it was the last one they had in stock.  So I ordered an Asrock motherboard, maybe third time is a charm.  I ordered it two day delivery so should be here Saturday.  In the meantime, this server is going to remain out of service.

     This means Roundcube, Manjaro, Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, and Yacy will be out of service until I get a functional motherboard.  To say this is frustrating is the understatement of the year.

     Since elm successfully compiled on Rocky8, I decided to try metamail.  It successfully compiled as well and is now installed and linked into elm.

     Also, this is a reminder that friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, mastodon.eskimo.com, yacy.eskimo.com, and manjaro.eskimo.com will all be going down for probably around six hours tonight in order to replace the motherboard.

     The motherboard that is presently installed has two dead memory slots so a quarter of our system memory is not recognizable on that machine.

     Roundcube mail is back.  It is in the WebApps->Mail->Roundcube menu or the direct path is https://roundcube.eskimo.com/.

     This is running on the new server and will be down between Wednesday evening and possibly Saturday though I may be able to get it back up sooner.  I am replacing the motherboard, AGAIN, as the new motherboard is stable BUT has two dead memory slots so the machine is only seeing 192GB of 256GB of installed memory.

     None the less, it is now an 18 core machine, 36 threads, at 4.8Ghz all cores.

     The way I finally got roundcube working is that I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a virtual machine on the new server.  I have this virtual machine listening to a non-routeable IP address so that it can not be reached directly from the outside world to provide some degree of security to ancient software.  Then I have it proxied through the main web server on the new machine which listens to both a public IP address and a private one that it can use to talk to internal servers.  Something about 24.04 breaks roundcube, I know not what.

Mail lists and some aliases are currently out of service owing to the aliases file on the client mail server somehow being truncated and half not there.  I am restoring from backups.  While this is in progress mail lists will not work as ALL aliases for smartlist are gone and many users aliases are gone at the moment.

(Update the aliases file is restored, lists are back in service)

On other news, while waiting for the new CPU chip to get here I had the machine sitting in BIOS configuration screen and after about three days it shut itself down spontaneously.

Since I had already replaced the motherboard (some bent pins on the CPU socket necessitated this), I went ahead and replaced the power supply.  Prior to replacing it, it would not run at all above 4.3Ghz and would not run stable even at 4Ghz, now it is running at 4.7Ghz, so there was some issue with the old supply, either a ripple problem or it would just not capable of supplying enough power on the 12v line.  Since this CPU can use as much as 540 watts it requires a very robust supply.

   Git is now installed on Ubuntu.eskimo.com.

     At present only the git application itself is installed, there is no GUI or web interface.

     I plan on installing some web interface after the new server is stable, this will probably be another two weeks.  I have shipped back the defective CPU, it should arrive at the sellers by this coming Wednesday, then they will ship a replacement which will probably take another week to arrive.  So with any luck that machine will be back online about two weeks from now.

     As for a GUI interface, I would appreciate it if you would provide some input upon which interface you would like.  The web interface will probably be gitweb but I can’t say for sure until the machine is operational and I can determine if it can meet the requirements.