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The Linux Kernel Mailing List is Down (lkml.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the funny-404s dept.

Every page on LKML.org is currently displaying this error message along with a picture of Flits the cat. What started out as a power outage while I was on vacation (leading to the computer hosting the backend of this site being unable to boot) became a larger issue as the mainboard in that computer appears to be broken.

Not wanting to let you wait for a spare part to arrive, I'm currently (while being assisted by our cat Flits) busy copying over all data to a VPS, and getting things working from there. The rsync is progressing slowly, having copied over the first 50% in three hours (at 14:30 CET). Please check back later for status updates.

76 comments

  1. Come on guys. by Narcocide · · Score: 1

    Have spares on-hand. This is elementary.

    1. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Keep in mind that if they weren't cheapskates, they would pay for their OS, and wouldn't be using Linux to begin with.

    2. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Unemployed political activists have all the time in the world.

    3. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      The site was literally running out of a closet in some random guy's house. The problem here goes a lot deeper than not having a spare lying around.

    4. Re:Come on guys. by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Informative

      As others have pointed out, this isn't actually the mailing list, which is run in a much more resilient fashion. It's just a web archive of the list run by a guy as a hobby. Not nearly so critical.

    5. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It must be a VESA bus mastering issue. Time to contact Northgate technical support.

    6. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And nothing of value was lost :-)

    7. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Spares are no match for teh almighty systemd which likely caused the outage.

    8. Re: Come on guys. by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      So you're agreeing with him?

    9. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I run an entire BSD project out of my basement. Not everyone can afford EC2 instances. (it's the bandwidth cost vs an unlimited comcast business package)

    10. Re:Come on guys. by sjames · · Score: 1

      They did the #1 most important thing and made sure the data was safe. The rest is a matter of actual need. Will the world end if the mailing list is down for a day? No, it won't.

      Will millions of dollars be lost? Again, NO. Will someone spew Cheetos crumbs everywhere in impotent rage? Possibly, but not anyone who actually contributes to the kernel.

    11. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Most of that noise is from your very own keyboard, you delusional fruitbat.

      But strangely, if I Google your name today, it links to this

      https://www.mylife.com/christo...

      Using my top-secret government access to spy satellites, I can actually see you right now!

      http://www.dirtybutton.com/med...

    12. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Creimer posted an on topic comment. Please do the same.

    13. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How are creimer's archived posts on-topic? As usual, your malignant ego must make this about you, Chris.

    14. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why do creimertards behave so badly on holiday weekends?

    15. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Their moms give them too much candy, leading to glucose overload, hyperactivity and tantrums.

    16. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nonsense! Remember on your blog!

      While I have no interest in Russian schoolboys, Bangcock ladyboys, or American/Mexican/Filipino child brides, these are the false narratives that my trolls have pushed so far this year. They believe that Slashdot is my “permanent record” on the Internet..

      Slashdot is not your permanent record on the internet!!
      There is no risk of antagonizing the same forum that gave birth to the GNAA

    17. Re:Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sound bitter, sweet tits.

    18. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But would they ever manage to re-activate the OS after the motherboard switch, if they would have run the Linux kernel mailing list on a Windows machine? Really, really unlikely.

    19. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Theo, is that you?

    20. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Keep in mind that if they weren't cheapskates, they would pay for their OS, and wouldn't be using Linux to begin with.

      Considering that most people run (desktop) Linux by installing it on a computer that shipped with Windows, they do pay for an OS--and then replace it with a superior one for free.

    21. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, a man that looks like an old sock stuffed with lard has a lot to teach us about eating too much candy, you bloated pre-diabetic Michelin Man.

    22. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here is the story of creimy the mountain and his royalties!

      The story of creimy the mountain explained:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      Listen to the audio version here:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      "Creimy The Mountain"

      includes quotes from Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (Edward Elgar), Johnny's Theme (Paul Anka), Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder (Crawford), O Mein Papa (Paul Burkhard), Over The Rainbow (Harburg/Arlen), Star-Spangled Banner (Smith/Key), Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stephen Stills)

      One, two, three

      CREIMY the Mountain
      CREIMY the Mountain
      A regular picturesque
      Postcardy mountain
      Residing between lovely
      Rosamond and Gorman
      With his stunning wife ETHELL, A tree! A tree!

      CREIMY was a mountain ETHELL was a tree Growing off of his shoulder

      CREIMY was a mountain
      (CREIMY was a mountain!)
      ETHELL was a tree Growing off of his shoulder
      (ETHELL was a tree growing off of his shoulder)
      (hey, hey hey!)

      Creimy had two big
      Caves for eyes,
      With a cliff for a jaw
      That would go up 'n down,
      And whenever it did,
      He'd puff out some dust,
      And hack up a boulder (HACK!) Hack up a boulder (HACK! HACK!)
      Hack up a boulder (HACK! HACK! HACK!) Up a boulder

      Now, one day, now I believe it was on a Tuesday, a man in a checkered double-knit suit drove up in a large El Dorado Cadillac, leased from BOB SPREEN

      ("Where the freeways meet in Downey!")

      And he laid a HUGE, BULGING ENVELOPE right at the corner of CREIMY THE MOUNTAIN, that was right where his 'foot' was supposed to be.

      Now, CREIMY THE MOUNTAIN, he couldn't believe it! All those postcards he'd posed for, for ALL OF THOSE YEARS, and finally, now, AT LAST, his Royalties!

      Royalties! Royalties Royalties! Royalty check is in, honey!

      Yes, CREIMY THE MOUNTAIN was RICH! Yes, and his eyeball-caves, they widened in amazement, and his jaw (which was a cliff), well it dropped thirty feet!

      A bunch of dust puffed out! Rocks and boulders hacked up, (hack! hack!) crushing 'The LINCOLN'!

      I gave him the money He acted real funny He hocked up a rock and It TOTALLED my car!

      Oh, do you Know any trucks Might be bound for THE VALLEY?
      I don't wanna stand here All night in this bar (Dear Lord)

      I don't wanna stand here All night in this bar (No shit!)

      I don't wanna stand here All night in this bar!

      By two o'clock, when the bars are already closed down, CREIMY had broken 'THE BIG NEWS' to ETHELL. And with dust and boulders everywhere, CREIMY, choked with excitement, announced

      "ETHELL, we're going on a VACATION!"

      Yes, and they WERE going on a vacation! (Oh, and ETHELL, ETHELL, ETHELL, like every little woman, she of course was very excited! She creaked a little bit, and some old birds flew off of her.) CREIMY told ETHELL they were going to Yes! They were going to NEW YORK!

      "ETHELL, we're going to New York!"

      But first they were gonna stop in LAS VEGAS

      It's off to LAS VEGAS to check out the lounges Pull a few handles,
      And drink a few beers, (Oh, ETHELL!)

      ETHELL, my darling, you know that I love you!
      I'm glad we could have a Vacation this year! (Oh, NEET-O!)

      Glad we could have a Vacation this year!

      They left that night, crunchin' across the Mojave Desert their voices echoing through the canyons of your minds (POO-AAH!)

      "ETHELL, wanna get a cuppa cawfee?"

      (Howard Johnson's! Howard Johnson's!
      Howard Johnson's! Howard Johnson's!)

      "Ahhh! there's a HOWARD JOHNSONS! Wanna eat some CLAMS?"

      The first noteworhty piece of real estate they destroyed was EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE

      And TO THIS VERY DAY, 'Wing Nuts' and Data Reduction Clerks alike, speak in reverent whispers about that fateful night when TEST STAND #1 and THE ROCKET SLED ITSELF (We have ignition!) got LUNCHED! I said LUNCHED! (Lunched!) By a FAM

    23. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROFL... You do know that every AC is not Chris? Creimertards are so pathetic.

    24. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sound bitter, sweet tits.

      Reply to This Parent Share

    25. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Awww shucks, I thought I thought up criemertards. Well good work saving me from having to post.

    26. Re: Come on guys. by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      Creimer might be a retard, but you are FAR more fucked up than he is.

    27. Re: Come on guys. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL, hilarious. I guess it's hard for somebody with fingers his size to type.

  2. Mailing lists != Websites by fisted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the LKML is operational, all that's down is a website. Meh.

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    1. Re: Mailing lists != Websites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Indeed. The actual mailing list is hosted on vger.kernel.org, is operated by The Linux Foundation, and is running perfectly fine. lkml.org is an entirely separate third party service that is quite often slow and unreliable.

    2. Re: Mailing lists != Websites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed. The actual mailing list is hosted on vger.kernel.org, is operated by The Linux Foundation, and is running perfectly fine.

      And even if it was down for a day, would that really be a problem?

    3. Re:Mailing lists != Websites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It used to be that a website would go down with every /. story. Now the sites are taking themselves down on their own. Guess /. can go ahead and shutdown itself.

  3. Nothing of value was lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Nothing of value was lost. Linux has 2% of the market share, at most. It's utterly irrelevant.

    1. Re:Nothing of value was lost by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. This is serious. I understand that as a work-around, Linus had to go to the park and yell at strangers.

    2. Re:Nothing of value was lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... on the desktop. Try again for embedded and server, be prepared to be amazed.

    3. Re:Nothing of value was lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No. This is serious. I understand that as a work-around, Linus had to go to the park and yell at strangers.

      When LKML is down, no one can hear you scream?

    4. Re:Nothing of value was lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Steve Ballmer has already spoken at them so loudly that they can't hear anything anymore.

  4. Lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One computer in someones closet. Lolllll get with the times folks

  5. Cloud by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why isn't this hosted on the Cloud or made into a Facebook Group?

    1. Re:Cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Didn't get the usual fuckwits to mod you up huh?

      foad.

    2. Re:Cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why don't you try asking one of the usual fuckwits to lend you a sarcasm detector.

  6. How easy is it to obtain the signing keys? by xxxLCxxx · · Score: 1

    Next they find out how easy it is to obtain your distribution's secret keys for signing packages... :-(

  7. Slow news day? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    Come on, Flits is on the case. Despite not having opposable thumbs, I've heard he's an excellent typist and fantastic sysadmin. Let's all just hope his human slave feeds him on time and his litter box well tended. ;)

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  8. LKML.org is not the actual list by pjbass · · Score: 3, Informative

    The lists are mostly hosted on vger.kernel.org. LKML is just fine. LKML.org is just a web archive.

  9. OMG - Linux is down!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    microsoft.com working great - time for you freetards to grow a pair and pay for an upgrade to a real OS

    1. Re: OMG - Linux is down!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      not enough minerals?

    2. Re:OMG - Linux is down!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      microsoft.com included in my HOSTS file as instructed by APK. So my PC says "Cannot Establish Connection to microsoft.com"

  10. Was the server sitting under someone's desk? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0

    There's this amazing thing called "The Cloud", you rent a piece of it and spin up a virtual server of your choice (I tend to go for CentOS because production should *not* be "bleeding edge"). The Cloud rarely goes down, and when it does it's not because some board got fried (there are exceptions).

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    1. Re:Was the server sitting under someone's desk? by sjames · · Score: 1

      Actually, "The Cloud" has had more down time than lkml.org over the last few years.

    2. Re:Was the server sitting under someone's desk? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1

      How do you measure downtime? A few minutes or hours OR A FUCKING FEW DAYS because the BOARD IS TRASHED?

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    3. Re:Was the server sitting under someone's desk? by sjames · · Score: 1

      Well, when S3 got hosed, some of the data never came back. But note that lkml.org isn't waiting to replace the board, it's switching to a VPS. In fact, it's back up now.

  11. oh thaz gotta hurt the Hulkster. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yea Linux was never homebrew akin to the amateur radio club, so they are all activists for thinking different. and if they grow their own foods by hydroponics or permaculture then they are not ever Agribusinessmen or farmers but just a bunch of stinky sweaty hippies living in the footsteps of pimpdog Charles Manson.

  12. Editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot doesn't even pretend to edit what they steal anymore.

  13. Server Upgrade by Slpr · · Score: 1

    https://i.imgur.com/NxQaSQ8.jp...

  14. At What Point Is SlashDot No Longer Reliable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With the garbage slashvertisements and fake news that "editors" continue to post, it's increasingly difficult to want to click on anything here anymore.

    1. Re: At What Point Is SlashDot No Longer Reliable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The most important unasked question here is, "how can we blame this on Trump?"

  15. Re: Oh no by cyber-vandal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FFS figure out how to turn off smart punctuation in your iOS keyboard settings before start sneering at anyone else.

  16. I see the Linux community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is still as professional as ever!

  17. RIP Linux by guacamole · · Score: 2

    It was great while it lasted. I am very proud to have used it all these decades, but now it is time to move on.

  18. His 15 minutes of fame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Flits looks like a nice kitty

  19. Come on guys... by Excelcia · · Score: 1

    Ok, and sure, have spares on hand. Great advice for a resource like that. But, well, come on guys, let's do the math:
    The set of all Slashdot readers.
    The set of all Slashdot readers who are actual (and not just claimed during the years in some post or another to try and lend legitimacy to one of their arguments) Kernel contributors.
    The set of all Slashdot readers who are actual kernel contributors who didn't know LKML was down.
    The set of all Slashdot readers who are actual kernel contributors who didn't know LKML was down and need Slashdot to copy the feed on how the progress is going.

    = A number so low as to be statistical noise. Therefore, this story can only be a Nelson "Ha Ha" article.

    I LOVE IT!

    p.s. HA HA

    1. Re:Come on guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually outsiders are paying attention to lkml.org since the news of Spectre and Meltdown broke.

  20. Cat! by SumDog · · Score: 1

    But look at the kitty kat! Dawww it's soo cute!!

  21. Re:Trump Supporters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    True. True.

  22. FAAAKKEEE NEEEEWWWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot's fact checking employee monkey is down.

  23. Re: Oh no by cyber-vandal · · Score: 0

    Whatever floats your boat dumbass

  24. Re:Trump Supporters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You mean you are gay too?

  25. So, ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... it's not "in the mail."

    Crap.

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  26. They tweeted ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... to the 3 users, instead.

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  27. TooManyFBombsException thrown by zifn4b · · Score: 1

    Linus you devil you. :)

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