[nos-bbs] Ubuntu 7.X and JNOS 2.0 - maybe not ...

[Bob Nielsen]

I have been running ax25d on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (server edition) for  
over a year with absolutely no problems.  I am using it with DX  
Spider (cluster node) software.  It is a headless system and has  
often run continuously for many months without requiring any  
attention (the current uptime is 77 days and would have been much  
more, but there was a power outage which lasted longer than my UPS  
could handle).  The only time I force a reboot is when there is a  
security update to the kernel.  I plan to upgrade to the next "long  
term support" version when it comes out in a few months and expect it  
to be at least as solid.

This is strange: The version of FBB available for Ubuntu 7.10 (the  
current release) is 7.04j, but the current version on F6FBB's site  
appears to be 7.03c (?)

73, Bob N7XY

On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Chris wrote:

> JNOS2 that I built on Ubuntu 7.10 seems fine.
>
> The Ubuntu distribution supplied FBB is very buggy, crashes for me all
> the time and freezes up the system nicely.  I haven't tried compiling
> that from source yet as I don't really need FBB here.
>
> URONode runs fine, compiled fine etc.  There may be issues with flexd
> on Ubuntu as well, I forget what was determined there.  I got
> sidetracked by the job and haven't been back at the packet in a couple
> weeks.
>
> There are underlying issues with the ax25 stack is my guess vs the
> system libs as I have intermittent issues there.  It's really bad if I
> up/down/up/down the ax25 layer on a single boot.  I'm too
> inexperienced to give exact details, but there was something 'weird'
> going on with ax25 vs my PK-88 in KISS mode.
>
> If I bring up the system clean, bring up the ax25 stuff and leave it
> alone, it's generally o.k. for me, but I haven't left it up for more
> than 24hrs on packet duty so I don't have any long term experience to
> share yet.
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Maiko Langelaar (ve4klm)
> <maiko at pcs.mb.ca> wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>>  I get the impression that Ubuntu 7.X has some issues. I see alot
>>  of posts indicating applications not working properly that should
>>  be working, and that do work on other distributions.
>>
>>  I've had several individuals who's opinion I value fairly well, give
>>  me a not so great assessment of Ubuntu 7.X as a platform to run JNOS
>>  and even FBB on. Here is one such assessment from one individual :
>>
>>    There are an excessive amount of bugs with this version of (K) 
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>>    Unfortunately, the Ubuntu team doesn't feel that these issues  
>> are bugs.
>>
>>    What you should do is inform those on nos-bbs is that jnos is not
>>    compatable with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and users who upgraded should
>>    downgrade if they intend on using jnos.
>>
>>    You should see the problems with FBB and Ubuntu 7.10.
>>
>>  I'm not bashing Ubuntu, but considering the above points, if any  
>> of you
>>  are running JNOS 2.0 on the later Ubuntu distributions, then the  
>> amount
>>  of support I can give you will be limited, since I have no  
>> control over
>>  system libraries crashing left right and center.
>>
>>  Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM
>>
>>
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Bob Nielsen
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