Transition Technology: Ticket Query

#495: Replace Google Analytics with Piwki

ed — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:20:25 GMT

Unless we see any issue, turn GA off on 01/03/13. Use Piwik instead.

#528: patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org DNS update

chris — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:58:13 GMT

Request from Ethan:

We've moved the site back to the production server. Would you be willing to set the CNAME for patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org to patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org.230.cldstr.com?

See also previous tickets ticket:482 and ticket:502

#557: Set up a re-direct

ed — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:21:18 GMT

Please can you set up two re-direct/pointers

from: "power.transitionnetwork.org" to: "http://www.transitionnetwork.org/power-just-doing-stuff"

AND

from: "http://www.thepowerofjustdoingstuff.org" (we own in gandi) to: "http://www.transitionnetwork.org/power-just-doing-stuff"

#615: Move to GMap 6.x-2.x-dev as and get clusterer to work

jim — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:14:51 GMT

This is largely done, but the only tasks left are:

Make a patch and add to our makefile so our custom markers appear ok.
Get the clusterer to work per the comments & issues in comment:1 below.

Per an email I got from Google:

As you may be aware, JavaScript? Maps API v2 was scheduled for shutdown on May 19, 2013. After listening to feedback from developers we decided to extend the deprecation timeline by six months, to November 19, 2013 to allow more time for migration to v3 of the API.

On November 19, 2013 we will deploy a JavaScript? wrapper that attempts to automagically turn remaining v2 maps into v3 maps. Though we expect this wrapper to work for most simple maps, we cannot guarantee that your maps will continue to function. We therefore highly recommend that you migrate to v3 before November 19. The good news is that Google Maps JavaScript? API v3 is more robust and feature rich than v2, and we’ve written a guide to assist the migration.

So this ticket is to do the update to the GMap module, testing and tweaking.

Critical as we only have until 19 November for this...

#617: Help adding text to account creation email

ed — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:16:37 GMT

I want to add a link to the email a user receives following their creation of an account.

this one: Subject: Account details for [user] at Transition Network

Can I do this myself? I've looked in subs, notifications, logintoboggan etc. and can't find the place

is it do-able?

#624: Comment handling on pages: particularly Austerity one

ed — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:16:02 GMT

Rob is doing an austerity special over 8 days, with a different clip from an interview with NEF every day. I've set up a page here: /austerity-basics

Question:

I know we can handle comments on pages, and I know that I don't get notifications of them. Can we arrange comment notifications for a page - asap - so that commenters get updates?

If not, no problem. I heard about this plan *today* so am not expecting any massive tech leaps.

#628: Change space notifications email from IJK.co.uk to TN.org

ed — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:50:37 GMT

The space notifications are coming from "space.transitionnetwork.org" <jim@…>

can you make them from "space.transitionnetwork.org" and a suitable TN address?

Do I need to set up a suitable TN address? Perhaps

space@…?

Or is there a standard drupal system one in place already?

#630: Archiving Transition Town Totnes site

ed — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:54:35 GMT

Please estimate to archive TTT site as per conversation with Ed:

convert to html
host on Penguin (incl. any likely issues for Penguin doing this)
any ongoing maintenance

Then Ed will discuss with Frances at TTT as per agreement with Chris

#631: Move Transition Culture onto PARROT

ed — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:57:44 GMT

We are about to move TC onto PARROT. List of likely actions here:

Ed speak to Simon (move the host, keep the developer if poss)
Chris speak to Simon about TC issues - traffic, size etc.
analyse TC traffic and DB size
prepare PARROT
move TC

Chris thinks we'll need to up PARROT to VPS2 + 2 GB RAM

#637: What is the wordcount for the /news and /blogs/rob-hopkins teasers?

ed — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:40:48 GMT

http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins

what is the teaser length - ie the first paragraph of a news or blog item that is published in the listings views?

rob wants to know how many words he has for his introductions...

#648: Edit the contact form reply in January

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:49:39 GMT

Ed has edited the contact form replies for webproject@… on the contact form for TN.org which will now reply to users saying this:

"Thank you for getting in touch. Please note that the website support is part time; and between mid-December 2013 and mid-January 2014 we are handing over the website support work as Ed goes on Paternity leave and Sam comes onboard, so please be patient - your replies are likely to take more time than usual. "

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/contact

SAM - when you are ready - probably mid-Jan - you will want to edit this back to something more suitable like:

Thank you for getting in touch. Please note that the website support is part time, so while we will get back to you as soon as we can, that may be a few days

#649: Add commenting to /films/ content type in January

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:53:16 GMT

seen here:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/content/node-type/films

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/films https://www.transitionnetwork.org/films/occupy-love

#650: Helping TN strategy consultation with online publishing

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:00:08 GMT

Sarah will be working on the TN strategy and this is about the content and comms tactics therein. The guiding principle is to use TN.org as the most suitable place for this material and conversations, and social media and direct mailshots for marketing and communicating it (because Sarah/TN cannot manage multiple conversations in multiple locations atm).

This is work for Sam to do from January onwards

set up a landing page ".../TN-strategy-consultation" with its own RHS block with manual links to different documents and interviews

SAM this can be a normal page with anchor links etc.

Use of blogs
Rob's for outreach - it's got the momentum - for updates/alerts/subscriptions
Sarah's for continuity (and looking back at it) - using tag "fn-strategy-consultation"

other places for comms/engagement
Forums not good; too open to trolls and spam; better in blog comments
webinar? Possibly if suitable
FB, twitter, other marketing channels - for marketing only
online meeting with national hubs - quite possibly

Direct Mail shot to PPOCs
Sarah Let Sam know if this is happening; Sam you'll need to do an export of PPOCs (https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports/initiatives/primary-contacts), tidy and dump into mail chimp using the standard template

#651: Report for tools content type

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:33:22 GMT

For January: set up a report for tools content type:

downloadable in .xls
tool title
URL (must be a hyperlink generated in .csv)
node reference

No tools report exists yet - but lots of others here: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports

#652: Report for resource content type

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:34:49 GMT

For January: set up a report for tools content type:

downloadable in .xls
resource title
URL (must be a hyperlink generated in .csv)
node reference

you will be able to work from this report: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports/resources

#653: Report for ingredients content type

ed — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:36:53 GMT

For January: set up a report for ingredients content type:

downloadable in .xls
ingredient title
URL (must be a hyperlink generated in .csv)
node reference

No ingredients report exists yet - but lots of others here: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports

#663: De-commission the PSE

ed — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:44:43 GMT

We are wrapping up the PSE to simplify our web traffic, codebase and support requirements before we move to TNv3.

Ed has informed all the PSE alpha triallists twice and asked them to remove their widgets. About half have. Others say they will. So we can remove the service any time from now on.

Ed has UNpublished the following pages:

/pse/create
/pse/about
/pse/faq

Jim - time to de-commission the service in a suitable way. Wrap this puppy up and turn it off. Please outline what you are going to do on this ticket and then do it.

Ed suggests this is work for January 2014.

Sam, Chris, fyi and any other changes needed?

#667: Development handover process

ed — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:40:47 GMT

Work by the Ttech team to share Jim's knowledge and tasks around the team before he leaves in early February 2014. Please use this ticket to log your time spent on this.

#685: SSL certificate about to expire?

sam — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:31:06 GMT

Hi Chris this dropped into my inbox this morning.

Can you tell from the following if it's a certificate we still use? Does it need to be renewed?

Thanks

Sam

---

Hello,

This mail is to inform you that your certificate SSL Standard (*.transitionnetwork.org) expires today, on 2014-01-24 00:59.

Warning: for Pro and Business certificates, web browsers have increased security. It can now take up to several weeks, and so we strongly recommend that you perform the operation as soon as possible.

If you would like to keep your certificate, we recommend renewing it today. For this you must launch the renewal process from the following page: https://www.gandi.net/admin/ssl/renew/26873

If you do not want to keep your certificate, then no further action is necessary on your part. It will be automatically revoked by our services and rendered useless.

#688: Password for innertransition@transitionnetwork.org ?

sam — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:59:58 GMT

Hi Chris

At the moment innertransition@… is forwarded to innertransition@… Sophie would like to disable the forward & and get the password for innertransition@… so she can set up Outlook.

Can I access these online anywhere or is it something you need to do?

Thanks

Sam

#691: Upgrade Wagn hosting for patterns site

chris — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:53:43 GMT

The http://patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org/ site is running using a development set up and the webrick server falls over every now and then, so the plan is to upgrade to a production style setup.

References:

ticket:635 webrick server problems
wiki:TransitionResearchWagn documentation
ticket:561 the last install
http://wagn.org/installation

#705: Create a contents page on TransitionCulture.org Wordpress site

ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:33:43 GMT

Create a contents page on TC.org to see a listing of all the blog posts. Mike suggests: "use category post list widget to pull in the titles and then use widgetise pages to add widget to a standard page.:

Sam to follow up. MAX time: 1 hour.

#739: Set up DEV and other drupal accounts for Annesley

ed — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:38:42 GMT

is this you chris? or a sam job? or paul?

#773: download copy of current TN D6 website

annesley — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:58:14 GMT

hi, am trying to get a copy of the current TN.org D6 database and filesystem down to my laptop to develop against. i had pulled from GIT, backed up from Backup&Migrate and got everything working but there are things missing.

so i want to do a file copy. i started a tar operation but the tar size went over 1.3GB and i stopped it because it shouldn't be that big. as always BOA has restricted use of the "du" command so i can't really tell why the tar was so big. and i can't "df" to see if it's a problem

should i let it continue? why is it so big?

#778: need access to Parrot

annesley — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:16:39 GMT

i need a publicly available WordPress demo install to play with. should this be on Parrot? what (sub)domain can i use?

#822: Create TRAC id for Ade

ed — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:54:13 GMT

name: ade email: adestuart@…

#826: Switching MX records from United to Google

ed — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:15:41 GMT

TN are switching the MX records from United to Google on Friday 23/1/15.

Will this affect the website/Web Architects in any way that we need to plan for in advance? Scripts, web forms etc? Anything you can think of?

#878: Reconomy.org add subdomains

ade — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:35:03 GMT

Hi Chris,
I thought I had added this as a ticket, but does not seem to have come
through.
I have had a request to add the following to the reconomy.org website.
I notice that i do not have permission to do this myself via gandi.net so
could you please add for me.
many thanks
Ade
We're going to need to point the REfund API to a particular subdomain
of the reconomy.org domain in the next few weeks. This will also apply
to the frontend. Is there anyone I can email about this?
Here are the proposed subdomains:
funds.reconomy.org
api.funds.reconomy.org
Both subdomains should point to this IP: 178.62.93.215
--
Ade Stuart
Web Manager - Transition network
07595 331877
The Transition Network is a registered charity
address: 43 Fore St, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5HN, UK
website: www.transitionnetwork.org
TN company no: 6135675 TN charity no: 1128675

#906: I borked it

sam — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:27:10 GMT

Hi Chris

I recklessly tried to enable a module on the site that enabled sending articles to friends by email, this seems to have been one of my less-good ideas.

It tried to enable a print-friendly page and this seems to have brought the whole crumbling edifice down

Sorry about that. Can you fix it?

#207: Logwatch Issues

chris — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:19:50 GMT

This is a ticket to track items that show up in the logwatch emails to root and often just take a few mins of reading time and response.

Any issues that look like they might take longer than a few mins should have their own tickets opened.

#208: Dblog Issues

chris — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:53:29 GMT

"The dblog module monitors your website, capturing system events in a log to be reviewed by an authorized individual at a later time. The dblog log is simply a list of recorded events containing usage data, performance data, errors, warnings and operational information. It is vital to check the dblog report on a regular basis as it is often the only way to tell what is going on."

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports/dblog

This is a ticket to be used to flag up issues that are not going to take up enough time that they justify their own ticket -- if an issue is raised in a comment on this ticket that does look like it's going to take some significant time then best start a new ticket for it.

#218: Debian upgrades and updates

chris — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:34:16 GMT

This is a ticket to track debian upgrades to the wiki:PuffinServer, wiki:PenguinServer and wiki:ParrotServer the time they take.

See:

These updates are generally done using the wiki:AptitudeUpdateScript and this records all the changes in the /root/Changelog and then the contents of the Changelog are pasted into the ticket to document the upgrade.

This ticket was was originally used for the ~~wiki:DevelopmentServer~~ and the ~~wiki:NewLiveServer~~.

#371: Piwik Hosting

chris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:34:51 GMT

Another option to consider for Piwik would be be to use a instance on another server, and there happens to be one here that could be used:

https://stats.webarch.net/

Could this be considered?

#382: Measurement and tracking requirements for TN and PSE

ed — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:57:12 GMT

to list the measurement and tracking requirements for TN and PSE so that we can assess piwik vs google and decide which way to go.

#470: Penguin install and configuration

chris — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:05:16 GMT

penguin.webarch.net is a new 2GB RAM virtual server which will replace NewLiveServer and DevelopmentServer for running all non-Drupal sites and is due to go live in early 2013. Drupal sites from the old servers will be migrated to PuffinServer.

This ticket has been created for tracking time and tasks done during the install.

See https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac/wiki/PenguinServer and also the corresponding PuffinServer.

#494: Email account for TRAC

ed — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:16:37 GMT

Set up: 'trac@…' Password: going to Chris separately Secure SSL/TLS Settings Username: trac@… Password: Use the email account’s password. Incoming Server: mail.xssl.net IMAP: Port 993 POP3: Port 995 Outgoing Server: mail.xssl.net SMTP: Port 465 Authentication is required for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.

#529: New Barracuda BOA-2.0.7 Edition available

chris — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:57:09 GMT

There is new BOA-2.0.7 Edition of Barracuda and Octopus available.

Please review the changelog and upgrade as soon as possible to receive all security updates and new features.

Changelog: http://bit.ly/newboa

#530: New Barracuda BOA-2.0.8 Edition available

chris — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:44:51 GMT

If I had known this was about to come out I would have waited before doing the BOA-2.0.7 upgrade last night on ticket:529

There is new BOA-2.0.8 Edition of Barracuda and Octopus available.

Please review the changelog and upgrade as soon as possible to receive all security updates and new features.

Changelog: http://bit.ly/newboa

Is mostly to fix a problem for people using Percona, https://drupal.org/node/1962690 and as we are using MariaDB this isn't an issue for us.

Other updates in this version:

Allow to use [a-z0-9] subdomains and not only [www] for IDN domain names.
Change the interval between platforms builds from 5 to 3 seconds.
Forced 1s Speed Booster TTL for vhosts behind local proxy is deprecated.
Move old firewall logs to backups to avoid crazy load after upgrade.
Nginx: Better exceptions handling in the Abuse Guard for js/shs modules.
PHP: CLI is at 5.3 since BOA-2.0.4, so symlink old 5.2 binary path to 5.3
Update _LENNY_TO_SQUEEZE major upgrade procedure.
Update contrib with login_security-7.x-1.2
Use static downloads for all distros in stable edition.

I'll do this update tonight unless there are any objections, hopefully it should be quite quick.

#531: Disk usage on puffin

chris — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:12:24 GMT

The disk usage on puffing is currently at 85% and it's been going up at around 5% a week, see:

https://penguin.transitionnetwork.org/munin/transitionnetwork.org/puffin.transitionnetwork.org/df.html

This will become a critical issue in a couple of weeks, it would be good to find and address the cause before then.

#532: Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.19.5

chris — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:40:34 GMT

New version out tonight:

This is a notice that on Monday, April 15th between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon. CVSS scores are between 4.3 and 7.1, most users will want to update.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000126.html

#534: Add accounts for Ben

chris — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:16:23 GMT

Ben is a new member of the TTech team and accounts need setting up for him, this is a ticket to track the time taken to do this.

#535: Upgrade Puffin, Penguin and Parrot from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy

chris — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:49:16 GMT

Debian 7 is due out on 5th May 2013 and wiki:PuffinServer, wiki:PenguinServer and wiki:ParrotServer will need upgrading.

#536: Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.19.6

chris — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:35:32 GMT

A new version of Mediawiki is due out tomorrow:

This is a notice that on Tuesday, April 30th between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000128.html

The upgrade should simply be a matter of following the steps taken last time, see ticket:532#comment:2

#538: intransitionmovie.com checks and updates

chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:02:03 GMT

The http://www.intransitionmovie.com/ site has been migrated to wiki:ParrotServer, the DNS might not have yet updated for everybody.

Laura -- could you check that the site is working OK if you get a chance, especially the ecommerce elements?

There are some outstanding updates, WordPress is version 3.3.2 need updating to 3.5.1 and there are 12 plugins with updates available:

18 installed plugins:
 UA affiliates
 UA affiliates-woocommerce-light
 UA akismet
  A backupwordpress
 UI bad-behavior
 UA bwp-minify
  A contact-form-7
 UA event-o-matic
  A transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress
 UA usernoise
  A woocommerce
 UA woocommerce-export-csv
  A woocommerce-currency-converter
 UA woocommerce-dynamic-pricing
  A woocommerce-delivery-notes
 UA woocommerce-shipping-table-rate
 UA wp-customer-reviews
 UI wp-super-cache
Legend: A = Active, I = Inactive, U = Update Available

I'm happy to do all these updates but I wouldn't know what exactly to check to see that the updates don't break anything -- would Laura be able to help with a quick check that updates haven't broken anything?

#539: REconomy site migration and updates

chris — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:01:00 GMT

This ticket is to keep track of the tasks undertaken and the time spent on the migration of the http://www.reconomy.org/ site to wiki:ParrotServer.

#542: Parrot RAM

chris — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:35:50 GMT

I'm concerned that wiki:ParrotServer might not be able to cope with load spikes due to it only having 1GB of RAM, these are the Munin graphs we need to key an eye on:

If the server runs out of RAM it will basically stop responding.

#543: Puffin Load Spike

chris — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:48:16 GMT

Puffin just had a massive load spike up to 65 and then it calmed down and it's up in the 70's again:

uptime
 21:46:43 up 91 days,  3:01,  4 users,  load average: 73.45, 30.76, 28.09

I'm trying to find the cause, it's making the TN site unresponsive.

#544: CSF / LDF false positive blocks on Puffin

chris — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:02:53 GMT

Ticket to keep track of CSF /LDF issues on Puffin, see wiki:PuffinServer#CSFLDF

#546: Trac documentation

chris — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:47:09 GMT

Better documentation of things like how to set billing times etc

#547: New Barracuda BOA-2.0.9 Edition available

chris — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:28:17 GMT

Do we want to upgrade to Wheezy, see ticket:535 at the same time as upgrading to BOA-2.0.9? Or should we wait a few weeks, as Jim suggested here ticket:535#comment:3

I think we should schedule this update (to BOA-2.0.9) for an evening when there isn't much traffic on the site, perhaps Saturday or Sunday night. I don't think this update is super urgent as we have already upgraded Nginx, see ticket:218#comment:80

There is new BOA-2.0.9 Edition of Barracuda and Octopus available.

Please review the changelog and upgrade as soon as possible to receive all security updates and new features.

Changelog: http://bit.ly/newboa

The Changelog contains:

# This is the first Barracuda-only Edition, released to address important
  security issue with Nginx server and provide system level upgrades.
  This Edition will not upgrade Aegir Master nor Aegir Satellite Instances,
  because there was no new Drupal core released since BOA-2.0.8 Edition and
  there were not enough updates to built-in platforms or contrib accumulated.
  Releasing Barracuda-only Edition separately from full Edition allows us
  to address system/services security issues without any extra delay,
  while releasing Octopus-only Edition will allow us to provide Drupal core
  or Aegir version upgrades, without affecting system level services.
  There is also another reason while separate releases will be useful.
  BOA-2.0.9 is the last Edition where Aegir 2.x uses still old Drush 4.6
  in the backend. We need to sync BOA specific Aegir 2.x with upstream
  and finally switch to Drush 5, or even Drush 6, if possible.
  This change, however, may cause issues if you still host legacy Drupal 5
  or some old Drupal 6 sites, with either core or contrib not compatible
  with PHP 5.3, which is now used by default.
  That is why we plan to introduce ability to install older/previous
  Barracuda and/or Octopus release, if you need more time to upgrade.
# New features and enhancements in this release:
  * Debian 7.0 Wheezy support.
  * Automated upgrade from Squeeze with _SQUEEZE_TO_WHEEZY=YES option.
  * Added config template with inline how-to in docs/cnf/barracuda.cnf
  * Added config template with inline how-to in docs/cnf/octopus.cnf
  * Added passwords encryption how-to in docs/BLOWFISH.txt
  * Added the list of symbols used on install in docs/PLATFORMS.txt
  * Forced mysql restart if there are too many high CPU mysqld processes.
  * Improved docs/NOTES.txt
  * Improved docs/README.txt
  * Install libpam-unix2 and libxcrypt1 by default.
  * Install s3cmd by default.
  * Issue #1974640 - Allow to use Midnight Commander for limited shell users.
  * Limited Shell Logs Monitor enabled by default.
  * Nginx: Check for Linux/Cdorked.A malware and delete if discovered.
  * Re-generate and sync Aegir passwords before and after instance upgrade.
  * The silent 'system' mode documented in docs/UPGRADE.txt
  * Allow to exclude platform from otherwise forced `drush en entitycache -y`
    if sites/all/modules/entitycache_dont_enable.info control file is present.
# Changes in this release:
  * Nginx 1.5.0 - security upgrade for CVE-2013-2028
  * PHP 5.3.25
  * Redis 2.6.13
  * Do not disable update module in platforms known to include it as required.
  * Firewall: Open port 1129 for outgoing connections (some gateways need it).
  * Force syslog module as disabled by default and save some disk I/O.
  * Tune kernel to always use max RAM and not swap, if possible.
# Fixes in this release:
  * Add outgoing port 25 SMTP to the list of requirements.
  * Firewall: Add truly permanent block for heavy abusers.
  * Fix for mytop support, available again on systems with MariaDB.
  * Fix permissions in the /data/all tree if required.
  * Fix the order of checks - they scan only the last (current) minute.
  * Force _STRONG_PASSWORDS=NO if locales still look broken on second check.
  * Improve detecting no longer running drush.php and/or cron PHP processes.
  * Improve fix_locales logic.
  * Improve global.inc symlinking on initial install and upgrade.
  * Improve messages displayed when fix_locales discovers broken locales.
  * Improve monitoring to avoid duplicate entries on low traffic systems.
  * Improve sanitize_string() filtering to avoid issues with strong passwords.
  * Improve syncpass tool - Update system user passwd and flush privileges.
  * Issue #1961226 - Warning: Could not change permissions of sites/all to 751.
  * Issue #1962458 - 403 for anonymous users on node/add.
  * Issue #1963044 - Force UTF-8 locales if not present/configured properly.
  * Issue #1974542 - Use /root/.home.no.wildcard.chmod.cnf control file.
  * Issue #1987936 - Restore ability to install PHP 5.2 for FPM and CLI.
  * Make sure that /dev/null is writable for everyone.
  * Make sure that all drushrc.php files are owned by Aegir system user.
  * Make sure that all expected sites/all/{modules,themes,libraries} dirs exist.
  * Make sure that DB server is restarted on upgrade after config tuning.
  * Make sure that pdnsd and resolvconf are properly installed.
  * Nginx: Remove duplicate Vary: Accept-Encoding headers.
  * Percona no longer supports older Ubuntu non-LTS releases.
  * PHP: Do not reload FPM every hour - it may cause error 502.
  * PHP: Fix paths depending on CLI version used.
  * PHP: Fix the extensions installation and upgrade logic.
  * PHP: Make sure that the FPM port is set correctly for D6 sites with 5.2
  * PHP: Properly uninstall all related packages when using source build.
  * PHP: Start more FPM workers on systems with enough RAM by default.
  * Purge bin logs before disabling them.
  * Run NewRelic re-install early enough to avoid locking full-upgrade.
  * Sync the load limits for spiders and backend tasks.
  * The Java/Jetty monitor should use higher allowed limits by default.
  * Update apticron message to recommend system mode instead of full upgrade.
  * Update docs for _BUILD_FROM_SRC option.
  * Use aggressive enough Jetty restart procedure on nightly services reload.
  * Use correct status messages on install and upgrade.
  * Use installer and not Aegir version download on stable install/upgrade.

#550: Transition Town Totnes migration

chris — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:59:44 GMT

It has been agreed to migrate Transition Town Totnes, http://transitiontowntotnes.org/ to wiki:ParrotServer and this ticket has been created to record this process and the time spent on it and the documentation of the migration.

There is also an issue regarding what, if anything, to do with the old Drupal site at http://archive.transitiontowntotnes.org/

#551: Mediawiki 1.19.7 upgrade

chris — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:25:51 GMT

From MediaWiki-announce:

This is a notice that on Tuesday, May 21st between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon. Although MediaWiki does not have the vulnerable feature enabled by default, most wiki using common advanced features will want to patch for this issue.

#552: Puffin Downtime 23rd May 2013

chris — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:15 GMT

There was a massive load spike on wiki:PuffinServer this afternoon, the load average peaked at over 60 and at exactly the same time there was also one on the virtual server serving http://webarch.net/.

Pingdom reported:

www.transitionnetwork.org down since 23/05/2013 12:11:57
www.transitionnetwork.org is UP again at 23/05/2013 12:19:57, after 8m of downtime
www.transitionnetwork.org is down since 23/05/2013 12:26:57
www.transitionnetwork.org is UP again at 23/05/2013 12:58:57, after 32m of downtime

When I did managed to get back into the server php-fpm and nginx were not running and it took several attempt to get them to start up.

Attached is the munin graps of the load from today, munin didn't record the start of the spike but it did start recording it as it came down.

This ticket has been created to report the issue and also to record anything that might be found in the logs to explain what happened.

#554: Site slow down and MySQL load increase

chris — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:11:51 GMT

Since the upgrade to MariaDB 5.5.31, done on ticket:218#comment:93 (and fixed on ticket:548#comment:32) there appears to have been been a noticeable slowdown in the time for pages to be generated, measuring with http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ the front page alone takes around 5 seconds to generate.

There is a clear increase in the amount of MySQL/MariaDB activity measured by Munin, see the attached graphs, the upgrade was done around midday on 24th May 2013. There has also been a increase in traffic according to the firewall graphs. The memory usage of redis has also dropped right down and the database memory usage has significantly increased.

It's not totally clear if the cause of this change in behaviour of the site is related to the MySQL/MariaDB upgrade or if there was a coincidental change in the traffic to the site at the same time. There is no noticeable change in the visitors recorded in the Piwik stats.

According to pingdom the front page of the site is now "slower than 77% of all tested websites" with a total load time of around 6 seconds, almost all of this is down to the wait of around 5 seconds for the index.php file. This can also be tested from parrot with Apache bench, sometimes cached pages are served up and these appear in an instance, if the front page is generated it takes around 5 seconds, see wiki:LoadTimes#a2013-05-28

#555: Load spikes causing the TN site to be stopped for 15 min at a time

chris — Wed, 29 May 2013 09:53:52 GMT

The BOA /var/xdrago/second.sh script is run every minute via the root crontab and if it detects a certain load level it changes the nginx config to a "high load" config which results in bots being served 503 errors when they spider the site, see ticket:563. When the load goes higher and hits another threshold the second.sh script kills the webserver applications, nginx and php-fpm, and waits till the load has dropped before starting them up again. This was happening once or twice a day following the increase in traffic around the launch of The Power of Just Doing Stuff. This has been addressed by multiplying the thresholds by 5 in second.sh.

Original Description

This morning at 10:19:24 I received the following alert from puffin:

Subject: lfd on puffin.webarch.net: High 5 minute load average alert - 6.59
Time:                    Wed May 29 10:17:02 2013 +0100
1 Min Load Avg:          23.39
5 Min Load Avg:          6.59
15 Min Load Avg:         2.57
Running/Total Processes: 44/326

At 10:21:57 I got an alert regarding ssh:

Service: SSH
Host: puffin
Address: puffin.webarch.net
State: CRITICAL
Date/Time: Wed May 29 10:21:57 BST 2013
Additional Info:
CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds

Then at 10:26:47 ssh appeared to have recovered:

Service: SSH
Host: puffin
Address: puffin.webarch.net
State: OK
Date/Time: Wed May 29 10:26:47 BST 2013
Additional Info:
SSH OK - OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3 (protocol 2.0)

But then pingdom reported at 10:29:07:

www.transitionnetwork.org is down since 29/05/2013  10:24:57.

There was then a report regarding Nginx at 10:32:07:

Notification Type: PROBLEM
Service: HTTP
Host: puffin
Address: puffin.webarch.net
State: CRITICAL
Date/Time: Wed May 29 10:32:07 BST 2013
Additional Info:
Connection refused

So at 10:33:47 I ssh'd in and found that php53-fpm and nginx were not running and it took several attempts to get them running again.

The up email from pingdom reported:

www.transitionnetwork.org is UP again at 29/05/2013  10:36:57, after 12m of downtime.

I can't find anything in the logs to indicate what caused the load spike and php-fpm and nginx to stopp running.

#556: Upgrade Piwik to version 1.12

chris — Thu, 30 May 2013 21:40:48 GMT

A new version of Piwik came out today with some interesting looking features:

#563: 503 Errors

chris — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:54 GMT

Original Description

The site is generating a lot of 503 errors, 83 since 6:30am today and there were around 750 yesterday.

#565: Blogs breadcrumbs incorrect on listings views

ed — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:21:56 GMT

Blogs breadcrumbs are wrong at main all blogs view and one author's full list view: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blog https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell

Jim can you sort this in under 15 minutes (which is what you have left)

#567: Update BOA for new Redis 2.6.14

chris — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:10:27 GMT

A suggestion from Jim:

BOA now includes Redis 2.6.14 <https://raw.github.com/antirez/redis/2.6/00-RELEASENOTES> if you do a 'barracda up-stable system'... What interests me about this is these lines from the changelog:

UPGRADE URGENCY: HIGH because of the following two issues:

Lua scripting + Replication + AOF in slaves problem (see Issue #1164).
AOF + expires possible race condition (see Issue #1079).

It's a long shot, but that could maybe be part of the issue we've seen recently.

I'm not sure if this is best done now or later tonight when the site is less busy?

#572: Design changes for homepage and TC section

ed — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:17:25 GMT

Design changes for TN homepage and TC section done by Ben to be part of maintenance budget.

list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An7ZaZdq6UfJdDhxS0JxbXZLYnhLRkN4X3h5aVV3R1E#gid=0

#573: MariaDB 5.5.32 is available for Puffin

chris — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:11:24 GMT

I could either update this via aptitude and it would be quick and have little down time or I could update it via BOA and it'll take 3 or 4 times as long and involved extra downtime.

Jim -- which way would you like it done?

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.32.

This is a bug-fix release. See the Release Notes and Changelog for details.

MariaDB 5.5.32 Stable (GA)

Release Notes: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5532-release-notes
Changelog: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5532-changelog
http://lists.askmonty.org/pipermail/announce/2013-July/000048.html

#577: Transition Streets Wordpress Migration

chris — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:28:25 GMT

This is a ticket to document the migration of the Transition Totnes http://www.transitionstreets.org.uk/ wiki:WordPress site to wiki:ParrotServer.

#580: php5-fpm starting when puffin boots

chris — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:03:06 GMT

When wiki:PuffinServer is booted /etc/init.d/php5-fpm is started and this causes errors with the site.

#581: Remove 'add to newsletter' option for site editors/admins

ed — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:24:17 GMT

Please remove the option for site editors/admins to 'add this to the newsletter' (which would send it to the newsletter nodequeue). Please also for now make the newsletter nodequeue non-active.

It's been confusing for staff members, and was for the simmplemail service really, so we're going to trial using a google doc for staff to add their stories to the newsletter instead.

#585: TTech Meeting 5th September 2013

chris — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:47:16 GMT

This ticket has been created for the TTech Skype meeting due to take place today.

#586: New Relic Monitoring for BOA

chris — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 08:35:17 GMT

This is a ticket to document the consideration, and possible installation, of https://newrelic.com/ on the PuffinServer

#588: RSS feed caching

chris — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:43:57 GMT

At the meeting on 5th September ticket:585 one thing we discussed was that:

The biggest single source of bandwidth by URL is Rob's RSS feed, 34.5GB of data, 150k hits. This represents half the total site data transfer, the RSS files is 0.4MB but will hopefully be mostly served gzipped at 0.1MB.

This ticket is to follow up on that -- are the RSS feeds served directly by Nginx?

#589: Blocking spammers at a firewall level

chris — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:48:59 GMT

At the meeting on 5th September ticket:585 one thing we discussed was that for August 2013:

More data is transferred for /user/register than the front page, 5.1GB compared to 3.6GB.

Most of this will be spam bots trying to register to post spam. Jim suggested that we could look at blocking some of these spam bots at a firewall level to save on resources. This ticket is to follow up on this suggestion.

#591: Move MySQL temporary directory to tmpfs

jim — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 12:47:41 GMT

Chris, please read: http://2bits.com/articles/reduce-your-servers-resource-usage-moving-mysql-temporary-directory-ram-disk.html

I think we could easily drop a little MySQL memory to give it some in-memory disk space to do the temporary table munching Drupal is causing it. I see there are already some mounted tmpfs partitions.

Related to #590 (proposal L: Review slow query log, explain queries, tweak as necessary/flag poorly behaving modules)

What do you think? Worth doing?

#593: Migrating Puffin to a ZFS file server

chris — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:52:47 GMT

This ticket is for the migration of PuffinServer to a ZFS file server, this will involve some downtime but should result in better IO and easier backups.

#594: WordPress 3.6.1 Maintenance and Security Release

chris — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:05:01 GMT

The following is from http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/

WordPress 3.6.1 is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. It addresses three issues fixed by the WordPress security team:

Block unsafe PHP unserialization that could occur in limited situations and setups, which can lead to remote code execution. Reported by Tom Van Goethem.
Prevent a user with an Author role, using a specially crafted request, from being able to create a post “written by” another user. Reported by Anakorn Kyavatanakij.
Fix insufficient input validation that could result in redirecting or leading a user to another website. Reported by Dave Cummo, a Northrup Grumman subcontractor for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Additionally, we’ve adjusted security restrictions around file uploads to mitigate the potential for cross-site scripting.

#595: Upgrade Mediawiki to 1.19.8 from 1.19.7

chris — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:18:05 GMT

From https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/REL1_19/RELEASE-NOTES-1.19

MediaWiki 1.19.8

This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.19 branch.

Changes since 1.19.7

SECURITY: Sanitize ResourceLoader exception messages
SECURITY: Token-getting functions will fail when using jsonp callbacks.
SECURITY: Fix extension detection with 2 .'s
Allow a string other than '*' as condition for DatabaseBase::delete()
Purge upstream caches when deleting file assets.
jquery.tablesorter: Add missing dependency on jquery.mwExtension

#597: Default owner for tickets

chris — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:04:58 GMT

Ben reported that the default owner for tickets is laura and that this should be changed.

#599: Server time drift

chris — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:57:59 GMT

The servers are not keeping good time at the moment.

#600: Numbers missing from Initiatives search page

ed — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:46:20 GMT

When users do a search on /initiatives we are missing a number which pertains to the results of the report:

It should say "XXX initiatives match your search criteria"

The XXX bit is missing

please check and resolve

#601: TTech Meeting 3rd October 2013

chris — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:03:42 GMT

This is a ticket for notes and times for the online meeting held on 3rd October 2013.

The ticket for the last meeting is ticket:585

#611: Adding Trac Account for Alan

chris — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:55:21 GMT

Alan, the other sysadmin at Webarchitects is in a better position than me to help with some of the more complex sysadmin issues so I hope it's OK that I have added an account for him here following the wiki:TracUserAdmin notes.

He is looking at helping with these tickets:

ticket:599 Server time drift
ticket:555 Load spikes causing the TN site to be stopped for 15 min at a time
ticket:593 Migrating Puffin to a ZFS file server

I don't expect he will be recording much time, I hope that is OK, he already has sudo access to all the servers.

#612: Upgrade to BOA-2.1.1 Stable Edition

chris — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 11:11:24 GMT

I have been sent this email from wiki:PuffinServer:

There is new BOA-2.1.0 Stable Edition available.

Please review the changelog and upgrade as soon as possible to receive all security updates and new features.

Changelog: http://bit.ly/newboa

I could potentially do this upgrade tonight as it's a quite time for the server -- Jim, any reason not to apply this update tonight?

#613: Parrot mysql console errors

chris — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:48:35 GMT

I connected to the wiki:ParrotServer wiki:XenShell to check the bandwidth usage and there was the following output, we should try to track down the cause of this:

parrot login: [41569.058444] hrtimer: interrupt took 59422559 ns
[442920.164115] INFO: task mysqld:3522 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[442920.164133] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[442920.164142] mysqld        D ffff880003755c40     0  3522    711 0x00000000
[442920.164153]  ffff8800bfa68e20 0000000000000282 ffff8800565fb9e8 ffff8800565fb9e4
[442920.164165]  00000000000157c8 0000000000000000 000000000000f9e0 ffff8800565fbfd8
[442920.164175]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff88000180c6a0 ffff88000180c998
[442920.164185] Call Trace:
[442920.164200]  [<ffffffff8110fb96>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40
[442920.164211]  [<ffffffff8130de82>] ? io_schedule+0x73/0xb7
[442920.164219]  [<ffffffff8110fbd1>] ? sync_buffer+0x3b/0x40
[442920.164228]  [<ffffffff8130f142>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xd/0xe
[442920.164237]  [<ffffffff8130e292>] ? __wait_on_bit_lock+0x3f/0x84
[442920.164246]  [<ffffffff8110fb96>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40
[442920.164253]  [<ffffffff8130e342>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x6b/0x77
[442920.164262]  [<ffffffff81066360>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[442920.164271]  [<ffffffff8110ffc3>] ? sync_dirty_buffer+0x29/0x93
[442920.164286]  [<ffffffffa001be04>] ? journal_dirty_data+0xd1/0x1b0 [jbd]
[442920.164301]  [<ffffffffa0032f4c>] ? ext3_journal_dirty_data+0xf/0x34 [ext3]
[442920.164312]  [<ffffffffa00313f5>] ? walk_page_buffers+0x65/0x8b [ext3]
[442920.164322]  [<ffffffffa0032f71>] ? journal_dirty_data_fn+0x0/0x13 [ext3]
[442920.164333]  [<ffffffffa0034a93>] ? ext3_ordered_write_end+0x73/0x10f [ext3]
[442920.164343]  [<ffffffff810b648a>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0x18d/0x278
[442920.164352]  [<ffffffff810b6926>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x25f/0x293
[442920.164361]  [<ffffffff810b69b3>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x59/0x9f
[442920.164369]  [<ffffffff810f0316>] ? do_sync_write+0xce/0x113
[442920.164377]  [<ffffffff81066332>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[442920.164385]  [<ffffffff8130f6fa>] ? error_exit+0x2a/0x60
[442920.164394]  [<ffffffff8101251d>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[442920.164403]  [<ffffffff8102de30>] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0x3a/0x8b
[442920.164411]  [<ffffffff810f0c68>] ? vfs_write+0xa9/0x102
[442920.164419]  [<ffffffff810f0d7d>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6e
[442920.164427]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[442920.164435] INFO: task mysqld:21061 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[442920.164441] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[442920.164448] mysqld        D ffff8800018b0e20     0 21061    711 0x00000000
[442920.164457]  ffff8800018b0e20 0000000000000282 ffffffff8100c426 ffffffff8100e233
[442920.164469]  ffff880003755d10 0000000000000002 000000000000f9e0 ffff8800bdde3fd8
[442920.164480]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff8800bd9462e0 ffff8800bd9465d8
[442920.164492] Call Trace:
[442920.164498]  [<ffffffff8100c426>] ? pfn_to_mfn+0xe/0x22
[442920.164506]  [<ffffffff8100e233>] ? arbitrary_virt_to_machine+0x28/0x73
[442920.164515]  [<ffffffff8110fb96>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40
[442920.164523]  [<ffffffff8106ce4a>] ? timekeeping_get_ns+0xe/0x2e
[442920.164531]  [<ffffffff8110fb96>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40
[442920.164538]  [<ffffffff8130de82>] ? io_schedule+0x73/0xb7
[442920.164545]  [<ffffffff8110fbd1>] ? sync_buffer+0x3b/0x40
[442920.164554]  [<ffffffff8130f142>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xd/0xe
[442920.164561]  [<ffffffff8130e292>] ? __wait_on_bit_lock+0x3f/0x84
[442920.164569]  [<ffffffff8110fb96>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40
[442920.164576]  [<ffffffff8130e342>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x6b/0x77
[442920.164584]  [<ffffffff81066360>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[442920.164592]  [<ffffffff8110ffc3>] ? sync_dirty_buffer+0x29/0x93
[442920.164600]  [<ffffffffa001be04>] ? journal_dirty_data+0xd1/0x1b0 [jbd]
[442920.164611]  [<ffffffffa0032f4c>] ? ext3_journal_dirty_data+0xf/0x34 [ext3]
[442920.164622]  [<ffffffffa00313f5>] ? walk_page_buffers+0x65/0x8b [ext3]
[442920.164632]  [<ffffffffa0032f71>] ? journal_dirty_data_fn+0x0/0x13 [ext3]
[442920.164643]  [<ffffffffa0034a93>] ? ext3_ordered_write_end+0x73/0x10f [ext3]
[442920.164652]  [<ffffffff810b648a>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0x18d/0x278
[442920.164661]  [<ffffffff810b6926>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x25f/0x293
[442920.164670]  [<ffffffff810b69b3>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x59/0x9f
[442920.164677]  [<ffffffff810f0316>] ? do_sync_write+0xce/0x113
[442920.164685]  [<ffffffff81066332>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[442920.164693]  [<ffffffff810f0c68>] ? vfs_write+0xa9/0x102
[442920.164700]  [<ffffffff810f0d18>] ? sys_pwrite64+0x57/0x77
[442920.164706]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

#618: Migrate Penguin and Parrot to the ZFS fileserver

chris — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:37:36 GMT

Since wiki:PuffinServer has been running from the ZFS fileserver, see ticket:593, it has been performing better -- we should also migrate wiki:PenguinServer and wiki:ParrotServer to the ZFS server prior to upgrading them to Debian Wheezy on ticket:535.

#620: Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.19.9

chris — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:57:58 GMT

See the announcement email:

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.21.3, 1.20.8 and
1.19.9. These releases fix 2 security related bugs that could affect users
of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email.
* Kevin Israel (Wikipedia user PleaseStand) identified and reported two
vectors for injecting Javascript in CSS that bypassed MediaWiki's blacklist
(CVE-2013-4567, CVE-2013-4568).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55332>
* Internal review while debugging a site issue discovered that MediaWiki
and the CentralNotice extension were incorrectly setting cache headers when
a user was autocreated, causing the user's session cookies to be cached,
and returned to other users (CVE-2013-4572).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53032>
Additionally, the following extensions have been updated to fix security
issues:
* CleanChanges: MediaWiki steward Teles reported that revision-deleted IP's
are not correctly hidden when this extension is used (CVE-2013-4569).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54294>
* ZeroRatedMobileAccess: Tomasz Chlebowski reported an XSS vulnerability
(CVE-2013-4573).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55991>
* CentralAuth: MediaWiki developer Platonides reported a login CSRF in
CentralAuth (CVE-2012-5394).
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40747>
Full release notes for 1.21.3:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21>
Full release notes for 1.20.8:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20>
Full release notes for 1.19.9:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19>
For information about how to upgrade, see
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading>

The steps followed for the last upgrade can be followed again, see ticket:595 and see also the documentation at wiki:PenguinServer#wiki.transitionnetwork.org

#632: Add accounts for Sam

chris — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:41:25 GMT

Following ticket:534

#633: RHS blocks changes for homepage

ed — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:27:15 GMT

Re-arrange/add/edit the RHS blocks to appear the order below

Why/how etc. : NO change
newsletter promo: NO change
POJDS book button: much smaller - can you set book image to lhs and buy button to rhs within block? might need a special .png to have both in it
Transition nearby button: NO change
New iT2 film promo button: needs a graphic
New TFP button: NEW: Trucie providing a graphic to fit in
Training button: NEW: Ed asking for training graphic to fit in
Social media promo button: NEW: needs some very modest SM logos to link to SM outposts FB and twitter

NB: Rob is only thinking of the homepage; Ed is not sure of the implications elsewhere on site... please advise on how/if this affects things elsewhere...

#641: Enable dynamic Munin graphs

chris — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:25:45 GMT

If we only generate munin graphs on the fly we will also get the zoom function working, this example config looks good: http://uname.pingveno.net/blog/index.php/post/2013/08/25/Configure-Munin-graphs-with-Nginx-and-Debian-7

#642: Trac "databasee is locked" errors in /var/log/messages

chris — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:46:43 GMT

I have just noticed these errors in /var/log/messages on wiki:PenguinServer:

Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor TimingEstimationAndBillingPage: OperattionalError: database is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor AdminModule: OperationalError: databasse is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor SearchModule: OperationalError: databaase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor QueryModule: OperationalError: databasse is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor ReportModule: OperationalError: databaase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor RoadmapModule: OperationalError: databbase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor TicketModule: OperationalError: databaase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor TimelineModule: OperationalError: dataabase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor BrowserModule: OperationalError: databbase is locked
Dec  1 23:09:00 penguin <11>Trac[chrome] ERROR: Error with navigation contributor WikiModule: OperationalError: databaseeis locked

There are lots more of these, including some from this morning.

Trac still seems to be working OK so I don't know how significant they are.

#656: Spam being sent out via Transition Culture

chris — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:48:21 GMT

I'm getting several of thee day day:

From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@parrot.webarch.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:21:02 +0000
To: tc@parrot.webarch.net
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
  inxzkysnf@gmail.com
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<inxzkysnf@gmail.com>:
    host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [173.194.78.26]:
    550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try
    550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or
    550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
    550 5.1.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 l11si2175565wjw.16 - gsmtp
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: <tc@parrot.webarch.net>
Received: from tc (uid=1011)
        by parrot.webarch.net with local (Exim 4.80)
        (envelope-from <tc@parrot.webarch.net>)
        id 1Vrp9L-0002BF-Kf
        for inxzkysnf@gmail.com; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:20:56 +0000
To: inxzkysnf@gmail.com
Subject: Thanks for your message
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1011:lib_nonajax.php
From: robjhopkins@gmail.com
Reply-To: robjhopkins@gmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message"
Message-Id: <E1Vrp9L-0002BF-Kf@parrot.webarch.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:20:55 +0000
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear timberland france,
Thank you for your message on the Transition Culture website - I will get back to you as soon as possible.
------MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><BODY>
<div style=3D"font:normal 1em arial; margin-top:10px"><p><strong>Dear timberland france,</strong></p>
<p>Thank you for your message on the Transition Culture website - I will get back to you as soon as possible.
<div style=3D"width:80%; background:#f4faff ; color:#aaa; font-size:11px; padding:10px; margin-top:20px"><strong>This is an automatic
+confirmation message. 14 December, 2013.</strong></div></div></BODY></HTML>

It appears to be spam sent fro the Transition Culture WordPress site to a Gnmail user who doesn't exist.

It appears, from the email headers that this form is being used for the spamming /home/tc/sites/default/wp-content/plugins/contactforms/lib_nonajax.php.

This needs some more investigation.

#660: Piwik 2.0

chris — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:36:18 GMT

The new version of Piwik will be out soon, the Piwik 2.0 Release Candidate just came out.

This ticket has beed created to document the upgrade.

#664: Upgrade Piwik to 2.0.2

chris — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:35:06 GMT

This is a bugfix version which fixes 3 issues, see http://piwik.org/changelog/piwik-2-0-1/

Upgrade notes are here, wiki:PiwikServer#Updates

#665: Wagn "Problem Loading Page" error

chris — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:02:00 GMT

Bug report from Tom:

I've encountered a problem when trying to set up new accounts: I get a 'Problem Loading Page' error when it tries to load http://localhost:3000/wagn/Invite_Success. This seems to be explained at http://wagn.org/Special_Urls_and_Ports - which I am hoping falls under your area of responsibility as I'm not sure how to do it myself,! But let me know if not...

#666: Parrot lockups

chris — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:31:16 GMT

We have this on the console, I'm going to reboot it:

[28800.164426]  [<ffffffffa001c1ba>] ? do_get_write_access+0x22c/0x452 [jbd2]
[28800.164435]  [<ffffffff81066360>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[28800.164443]  [<ffffffff8104b51c>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x289/0x29b
[28800.164453]  [<ffffffffa001c402>] ? jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x22/0x33 [jbd2]
[28800.164475]  [<ffffffffa006289e>] ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x4e/0x56 [ext4]
[28800.164492]  [<ffffffffa0042b8e>] ? ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x37/0x73 [ext4]
[28800.164508]  [<ffffffffa0042c05>] ? ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x3b/0x1c4 [ext4]
[28800.164528]  [<ffffffffa005bdc7>] ? ext4_journal_start_sb+0xd4/0x10e [ext4]
[28800.164543]  [<ffffffffa0042eb0>] ? ext4_dirty_inode+0x30/0x46 [ext4]
[28800.164553]  [<ffffffff81109ead>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x25/0x14a
[28800.164560]  [<ffffffff8110138b>] ? file_update_time+0x101/0x130
[28800.164569]  [<ffffffff810b6835>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x16e/0x293
[28800.164578]  [<ffffffff810b69b3>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x59/0x9f
[28800.164588]  [<ffffffff810f0316>] ? do_sync_write+0xce/0x113
[28800.164596]  [<ffffffff810fcd0c>] ? filldir+0x0/0xb7
[28800.164605]  [<ffffffff810549b1>] ? _local_bh_enable_ip+0x22/0x8f
[28800.164613]  [<ffffffff81066332>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[28800.164626]  [<ffffffff8130f1a1>] ? _spin_lock_bh+0x9/0x25
[28800.164626]  [<ffffffff810f0c68>] ? vfs_write+0xa9/0x102
[28800.164632]  [<ffffffff810f0d18>] ? sys_pwrite64+0x57/0x77
[28800.164639]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[28800.164657] INFO: task apache2:31559 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[28800.164665] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[28800.164675] apache2       D 0000000000000000     0 31559  28011 0x00000000
[28800.164691]  ffffffff8149f1f0 0000000000000286 0000000000000000 ffffffff81274f4f
[28800.164711]  ffff880002dc99d8 ffff8800bd1ca000 000000000000f9e0 ffff880002dc9fd8
[28800.164730]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff8800bd9746a0 ffff8800bd974998
[28800.164752] Call Trace:
[28800.164762]  [<ffffffff81274f4f>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x7f/0x14c
[28800.164773]  [<ffffffff81066253>] ? bit_waitqueue+0x10/0xa0
[28800.164787]  [<ffffffffa001c1ba>] ? do_get_write_access+0x22c/0x452 [jbd2]
[28800.164798]  [<ffffffff81066360>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[28800.164812]  [<ffffffffa001c402>] ? jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x22/0x33 [jbd2]
[28800.164833]  [<ffffffffa006289e>] ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x4e/0x56 [ext4]
[28800.164852]  [<ffffffffa0042b8e>] ? ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x37/0x73 [ext4]
[28800.164871]  [<ffffffffa0042c05>] ? ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x3b/0x1c4 [ext4]
[28800.164890]  [<ffffffffa005bdc7>] ? ext4_journal_start_sb+0xd4/0x10e [ext4]
[28800.164908]  [<ffffffffa0042eb0>] ? ext4_dirty_inode+0x30/0x46 [ext4]
[28800.164921]  [<ffffffff81109ead>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x25/0x14a
[28800.164932]  [<ffffffff8110138b>] ? file_update_time+0x101/0x130
[28800.164943]  [<ffffffff810b6835>] ? __generic_file_aio_write+0x16e/0x293
[28800.164958]  [<ffffffff8125227b>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0xbc
[28800.164969]  [<ffffffff8100cc43>] ? xen_make_pte+0x7b/0x83
[28800.164980]  [<ffffffff810b69b3>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x59/0x9f
[28800.164992]  [<ffffffff810f0316>] ? do_sync_write+0xce/0x113
[28800.165003]  [<ffffffff81066332>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[28800.165015]  [<ffffffff810ce24c>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x3b8/0x80f
[28800.165027]  [<ffffffff810f0c68>] ? vfs_write+0xa9/0x102
[28800.165038]  [<ffffffff810f0d7d>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6e
[28800.165049]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[125024.867759] hrtimer: interrupt took 38561246 ns
[1412520.196163] INFO: task mysqld:7928 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[1412520.196183] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[1412520.196191] mysqld        D 0000000000000000     0  7928  18454 0x00000000
[1412520.196203]  ffff8800bfa69530 0000000000000286 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[1412520.196215]  0007ffffffffffff 0000000000000001 000000000000f9e0 ffff880074cb5fd8
[1412520.196226]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff880002ce1530 ffff880002ce1828
[1412520.196236] Call Trace:
[1412520.196259]  [<ffffffffa00232bf>] ? jbd2_log_wait_commit+0xbf/0x112 [jbd2]
[1412520.196273]  [<ffffffff81066332>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[1412520.196293]  [<ffffffffa003fb41>] ? ext4_sync_file+0x199/0x25c [ext4]
[1412520.196304]  [<ffffffff8110d6e0>] ? vfs_fsync_range+0x73/0x9e
[1412520.196319]  [<ffffffff8110d78a>] ? do_fsync+0x28/0x39
[1412520.196325]  [<ffffffff8110d7b9>] ? sys_fsync+0xb/0x10
[1412520.196333]  [<ffffffff81011b63>] ? sysret_check+0x17/0x5a
[1412520.196341]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

#668: Wagn transition_mod

chris — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:52:25 GMT

Email from Ethan via Tom:

I was doing some work on wagn mods today and I realized that I'd created a mod (as in "modification" or "module", whichever you like) for the transition site that probably never survived the move to the new server.

Looking at https://patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org/Building_Resilience confirmed this for me. The confidence shows up as the words "2 stars" rather than actual star images. That's one thing the mod does. The other has to do with reducing visual redundancy (recurring names) in pattern summaries.

I've attached the mod file here. Unless you've gotten creative with your configuration, you should be able to stick this file in local/mods and restart the server and have that fixed. Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.

#669: Mediawiki upgrade to 1.19.10

chris — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:00:24 GMT

Email from Mediawiki:

This is a notice that on Tuesday, January 14th between 00:00-01:00 UTC (*Monday* January 13th, 4-5pm PST) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software, as well as several extensions. Downloads and patches will be available at that time.

#670: Roll back performance customisations and use stock BOA settings where possible

jim — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:51:30 GMT

Issue Given so much has changed since the initial issues on the server, I now strongly recommend reverting all settings changes that do not add features back to stock BOA settings after the next BOA release.

These would include all MySQL, PHP, FPM, Redis and other settings that have been for performance reasons, or to combat the situation where there was hardware/IO issues with the underlying server. I'm most interested in FPM and MySQL settings.

The next version of BOA will include some improvements we need (see 629: Upgrades to BOA which should handle load on our server with a lot of CPU cores. With this in place we'll be able to revert more easily to stock settings.

Rationale I'm not talking about rolling back changes that provide us with features or mission-critical capabilities, just the changes to the subsystems I list above for performance reasons.

It's my belief that these enhancements no longer match the needs of the server since the changes to filesystem and underlying hardware fixes have been completed. They also represent an ongoing risk around updates, future planning -- plus it's possible they might mean Puffin's web services need more memory than it otherwise would, costing TN more than it should need to spend on hardware.

Proposed solution

Await the next version of BOA, and setup the enhanced load settings per the documentation.
Revert all other changes to conf files for MySQL, PHP, FPM, Redis that do not add a feature or are not mission-critical.
Review /root/.barracuda.cnf and turn off any overrides and customisations we don't now need as a result of 2).
Run the BOA BOND.sh script to do the tuning of the server appropriate to the memory requirements. This will tune for the current levels on first pass.
Review Munin and site performance. If we need to make any tweaks then we can do a minimal set as required -- keeping an eye on memory usage.
Once a few days have gone by I would hope that the overall memory use will be lower, OR with more cached data. At this point we can either re-run the barracuda installer with the _RESERVED_RAM set to 1-4 Gb, or simply reduce the memory available to Puffin.
Repeat from 4, using BOND.sh to optimise for the new memory footprint.

Clearly, it's possible no memory savings can be made, or just 1Gb or so is sensible. Either way, rolling back the changes made for a system that has changed immensely is worth attempting to compare current (tweaked) performance to the stock system. Since current settings are all documented and can be backed up, we should be able to test this with no risk and the ability to roll back as needed.

Next steps

Chris and Ed to give their thoughts.
Ed to green-light before we proceed in too much detail or take any action.
Chris and Jim to establish the changes and outcomes.
Chris, Jim and whoever to do the new optimisation process.

#672: Upgrade to Piwik 2.0.3

chris — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:13:00 GMT

From the Piwik changelog:

Piwik 2.0.3 is a bug-fix release. To ensure the highest quality and reliability for your Piwik 2.0 setup, we have fixed all known major bugs, as well as made some small improvements.

...

We highly recommend that you upgrade your server to Piwik 2.0.3 today to benefit from the latest improvements.

#673: Install mosh - the mobile shell

chris — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:27:40 GMT

The mobile shell enables terminal connections to stay up when using really bad connections, for example on a train, see:

http://mosh.mit.edu/

#674: Puffin locked up

chris — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:59:40 GMT

This is on the console, no response via web or ssh :

[4478428.894563]  [<ffffffff810f3634>] ? sys_readlinkat+0x25/0x8d
[4478428.894571]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[4478428.894581] INFO: task cron:46009 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[4478428.894587] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[4478428.894595] cron          D ffff8801fb270e20     0 46009   8829 0x00000080
[4478428.894606]  ffff8801fb270e20 0000000000000286 0000000000000001 00000001810423b0
[4478428.894617]  ffff88000bcf87c0 000000000000000b 000000000000f9e0 ffff8800cbb9dfd8
[4478428.894628]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff8801fa458000 ffff8801fa4582f8
[4478428.894640] Call Trace:
[4478428.894648]  [<ffffffff811976a6>] ? vsnprintf+0x40a/0x449
[4478428.894656]  [<ffffffff8130e5c3>] ? __mutex_lock_common+0x122/0x192
[4478428.894666]  [<ffffffff8130e6eb>] ? mutex_lock+0x1a/0x31
[4478428.894673]  [<ffffffff810f7eac>] ? do_lookup+0x80/0x15d
[4478428.894681]  [<ffffffff810f892c>] ? __link_path_walk+0x5a5/0x6f5
[4478428.894689]  [<ffffffff810f826a>] ? do_follow_link+0x1fa/0x317
[4478428.894697]  [<ffffffff810f86e0>] ? __link_path_walk+0x359/0x6f5
[4478428.894705]  [<ffffffff810f8caa>] ? path_walk+0x66/0xc9
[4478428.894713]  [<ffffffff810fa114>] ? do_path_lookup+0x20/0x77
[4478428.894721]  [<ffffffff810fa2a0>] ? do_filp_open+0xe5/0x94b
[4478428.894729]  [<ffffffff81012cdb>] ? xen_hypervisor_callback+0x1b/0x20
[4478428.894738]  [<ffffffff8130dda8>] ? thread_return+0x79/0xe0
[4478428.894746]  [<ffffffff811901fb>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x33/0x50
[4478428.894755]  [<ffffffff81103705>] ? alloc_fd+0x67/0x10c
[4478428.894763]  [<ffffffff810eeacf>] ? do_sys_open+0x55/0xfc
[4478428.894770]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[4478669.197427] INFO: task vnstatd:1920 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[4478669.197448] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[4478669.197458] vnstatd       D 0000000000000000     0  1920      1 0x00000000
[4478669.197469]  ffff8801ff18bf90 0000000000000282 ffff8801fa651e10 ffff880000009680
[4478669.197482]  0000000000000000 000000000000000a 000000000000f9e0 ffff8801fa651fd8
[4478669.197494]  00000000000157c0 00000000000157c0 ffff8801fe335bd0 ffff8801fe335ec8
[4478669.197505] Call Trace:
[4478669.197520]  [<ffffffff8130f6fa>] ? error_exit+0x2a/0x60
[4478669.197531]  [<ffffffff8101251d>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[4478669.197542]  [<ffffffff8130e5c3>] ? __mutex_lock_common+0x122/0x192
[4478669.197551]  [<ffffffff8130e6eb>] ? mutex_lock+0x1a/0x31
[4478669.197561]  [<ffffffff810f7eac>] ? do_lookup+0x80/0x15d
[4478669.197569]  [<ffffffff810f86aa>] ? __link_path_walk+0x323/0x6f5
[4478669.197577]  [<ffffffff810f8caa>] ? path_walk+0x66/0xc9
[4478669.197585]  [<ffffffff810fa114>] ? do_path_lookup+0x20/0x77
[4478669.197593]  [<ffffffff810fa2a0>] ? do_filp_open+0xe5/0x94b
[4478669.197602]  [<ffffffff8130f054>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x15/0x34
[4478669.197612]  [<ffffffff81068fa6>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x3a/0x43
[4478669.197622]  [<ffffffff8102de30>] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0x3a/0x8b
[4478669.197631]  [<ffffffff81103705>] ? alloc_fd+0x67/0x10c
[4478669.197641]  [<ffffffff810eeacf>] ? do_sys_open+0x55/0xfc
[4478669.197649]  [<ffffffff81011b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Rebooting...

#677: Spike in MyISAM (search) database activity, Redis unable to cache such requests

chris — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:49:33 GMT

Since Sunday there has been a marked increase in MySQL activity and also a drop in Redis memory use, I suspect these things are related.

I'll post some Munin graphs below to illustrate this.

#682: Create Trac & Wiki account for Paul

sam — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:39:18 GMT

Hi it looks like i@… will be joining us to pick up some of Jim's role as he moves on.

Chris could you create a trac & Wiki account for him please?

His email is; i@…

Thanks

Sam

#683: Create Aegir account for Paul

sam — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:42:48 GMT

Hi Jim

It looks like i@… will be joining us to pick up some of your work.

Could you create an Aegir account for him please?

I was also wondering about the Transition Network Github repo, do we need to do anything to hand that over?

Thanks

Sam

#684: Adding Paul and Nick to Transition Network on github.org

chris — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:42:23 GMT

It looks like Ed and Jim are the only one with permissions to add members to Transition Network on GitHub as they are listed as owners and the rest of us are members.

Paul and Nick can you post you account names to this ticket so you can be added?

Jim could you make me and/or Ben owners as well so we can add people?

#686: MediaWiki 1.19.11 Update

chris — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:53:13 GMT

On the MediaWiki-announce list:

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.22.2, 1.21.5 and 1.19.11.

Your MediaWiki installation is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability if you have enabled file upload support for DjVu (natively supported by MediaWiki) or PDF files (in combination with the PdfHandlerxtension). Neither file type is enabled by default in MediaWiki installations. If you are affected, we strongly urge you to update immediately.

Affected supported versions: All

Security fixes

Netanel Rubin from Check Point discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in MediaWiki's thumbnail generation for DjVu files. Internal review also discovered similar logic in the PdfHandler extension, which could be exploited in a similar way. (CVE-2014-1610) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60339
Bug Fixes in 1.22.2

(bug 58253) Check for very old PCRE versions in installer and updater
(bug 60054) Make WikiPage::$mPreparedEdit public
Full release notes for 1.19.9:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19