Server crash

[Anders F Björklund]

Jani Partanen wrote:

> Hello guys!

Hello Jani!

> I have hit problem with smart on my centos 5.8 box. I had issues to upgrade system with v0.52, what is latest build for centos, so I did build 1.4.1 myself. I got system up to date. (0.52 did hangs to dependency check forever)

Assuming you mean that _Fedora EPEL_ won't update their Smart package
beyond 0.52 ? Also having some issues to get Fedora to fix* their later
packaging as well, to update their repo configuration beyond "13.89"...
("fedora-package-config-smart" needs to be replaced with the yum plugin)

* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253184

> Now that issue is back with 1.4.1 and it's not only that it hangs smart, it will crash whole server if you forget it and let it run background long time. Server has crashed now 2 times. It goes unresponsible, nothing works, won't even remove screen blank with keypress so only option is dirty boot.

Hmm, upgrading from 0.52 to 1.4.1 is like 5 years or something but I can't
think of anything that would make it crash like that - except for running
out of memory and starting swapping, or otherwise eating too much resources.
Which repositories do you have enabled, beyond the regular ones from CentOS ?

> Also I would like to know if there is any future with smart? I have noticed it's been very quiet here. So would it be better to just give up with smart and switch back to yum?
> I really like smart and I have been using it all my systems for years and would like to continue that way.

There is nothing stopping Smart from working like it always did, but the
funding and thus the development moved back to using apt and yum again...
So the last roadmap was more looking at Win / Mac, and porting to Python3.
But it seems like there might be some renewed interest to fix the existing.

So what do you see in the future ?

--anders