Well, whenever I do a pacman -Syu the whole family just starts laughing saying will the system be borked now again
Anyway, how do you upgrade your archlinux server (I guess it’s headless)? Do you have a testing repository or just trust the repo? I’m asking this because archlinux (which I use at home and at work as desktop) tends to use cutting edge upstream packages, which sometimes are pretty unstable. I have experienced lots of failures that way, the most recent just days ago (nvidia new version just refuses to make opengl to work).
UPDATE: just now I saw, you’re using KVM, so probably you make snapshots and can revert easily.
I am using 99% the regular repositorys.
Some little tools are coming from the AUR.
I don’t do snapshots (hm when the server started i didn’t know btrfs so good as now ) but our hoster makes full-system backups weekly.
Arch is a way more stable and server ready as the people tell - there is nearly no update which breaks anything.
Well sure, php7 was a problem for our old forum, thats the reason why it was hosted on the tchncs.de machine which is debian. But now we have a ruby forum anyway.
I never experienced unstable updates, arch uses stable releases in the official repos as far as i know… .
Well, except, maybe, my damn nvidia driver (prop.) on my computer.
That is good to hear. I want to stress that the problems I get from upgrading are all due to upstream errors. On a headless server I would expect far less breakages. And yeah, don’t even start talking about nvidia…
BTW, AUR, check this out: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=SanskritFritz (shameless self promotion )
Regarding Nvidia It don’t work on my Manjaro, Arch most of the time and sometimes even on Fedora, CentOS too. Even using Bumblebee i have problems running programs on Nvidia. No wonder why Mr. Linus Torvalds show this to Nvidia. Linus Torvalds on Nvidia (1 finger 2 words) xD
Hey friends, there is something i have to talk about.
As the most of you know, a KVM server is a virtual machine on a shared host with fixed ressources.
But if the hostmachine is busy and the neighborhood is using a bunch of ressources, all other virtual machines
will slow down.
This is our current problem, looks like the neighbors are using too much cpu power so our game slows down.
Our only option to avoid thise trouble is to move to a didicated rootserver.
This would be a “real” machine and for sure more expensive.
I am currently writing with our hoster and cannot garant how much is will cost and what hardware we get.
But one thing is clear:
It is that expensive that i am forced to move all the tchncs.de services to it for decreasing the costs.
Now i am in the fear that we do not get enough graceful donators to keep such a machine with something between 30-40EUR or sightly more, not yet clear, running - i would lose all my stuff i am hosting for a time i would need to move everything back to a kvm in such a case it it would be horrible for production services to do so.
I don’t really have a solution. But that’s always the problem with Donations. You don’t know when they will stop donating.
The only other thing I can think of is getting a gameserver for Minetest and keep the tchncs.de stuff on the KVM.
I don’t know how much a gameserver for 10-20 people will cost, but I’m sure here are some guys who will donate a few bucks a month to keep it running.
If illuna is gone from the KVM you can save some money there, I guess.
thats the best !
) but our hoster makes full-system backups weekly.