Hi, After being rock solid for 9 months, the VMware server crashed badly on boxen.math.washington.edu, and we absolutely could not get it to work despite repeated clean reinstalls, reboots, etc. Repeatedly tempted by things appearing to work, I tried to migrate the virtual infrastructure to VirtualBox, but after many hours of work major performance issues made this impossible for now (though I hold out hope) -- something about my hardware setup or VirtualBox makes it completely unusable.
Fortunately, I was able to get VMware server installed on mod.math.washington.edu, and get the virtual servers back online. I had to change the DNS entries for everything to point to mod.math.washington.edu (128.208.160.198) instead of boxen.math.washington.edu (128.208.160.197). As the DNS propagates, you should see all relevant web pages come back and work exactly as before the crash (no data was lost). If you are one of the people that works on sagemath (e.g., to maintain the cython, sagemath, mpir, etc.) webpage, the main change for now is that you login to mod.math.washington.edu instead of boxen.math.washington.edu before connecting to sagemath. (This is temporary.) William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
