Troubleshooting Dying Jenkins Server

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Thu, May 31, 2012 - 9:15pm

New to Jenkins, I'm having an issue troubleshooting Jenkins -- specifically why it's dying...

I couldn't see any gripes in /var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log -- just normal startup notifications...

But the jenkins service keeps dying.

After some searching for "jenkins ci die", I found these resources:

New system setup notes: Ubuntu 11.10 on Toshiba Satellite A505-S6992

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Tue, Apr 30, 2012 - 1:24pm

on a toshiba a505-s6992

 

To Do List After installing Ubuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot

15 Things I Did After Installing New Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

 

to get external monitor to work, had to install latest nvidia drivers:

Real World Performance Analysis by Narayan Newton

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Wed, Mar 31, 2012 - 1:17pm

Talking to clients/stakeholders

Going beyond "it's slow"

- Authenticated/anonymous balance

. Other limitations

1. Validate load times quoted to us (assume client is lying) ;)

2. Stay zoomed out...

- pt-query-digest

slowlog in my.cnf - long-query-time

drupal 6 views_lightpager module -- doesn't run the select count(*) AS expression

views for d7 is a little smarter

views > view > settings > advanced > add views signatures

 

- webgrid

 

SANDcamp 2012

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Mon, Jan 31, 2012 - 1:45pm

Sandcamp was cool.  Learned about Sass, gotta check out Megalodon, 

Notes on Aegir Setup and Drupal Installation Profiles

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Wed, Jan 31, 2012 - 4:00pm

Having setup my first Aegir server and installation profile, here are a few quick notes/links for future reference:

Drupal 7 "Sample Request" feature using Flag, Views, Webform, and a few hooks

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 - 4:12pm

Today @welly in #drupal-support asked about how to have Druapl 7 "users to be able to flag a bunch of nodes and then submit their list of flagged nodes to an admin user some how."

I just happened to do that exact thing for a client project just a few weeks ago.

So here's my approach.

Using Flag (and Session API for anonymous flagging) with Views, Webform, and a few webform hooks, I was able to allow users to flag items for which they could request samples in a webform.

There are four components:

Following WSCCI

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Mon, Dec 31, 2011 - 8:59pm

Trying to keep up with the discussion on WSCII, I'm taking notes here:

Custom Drupal 6 Multistep Form Wizard

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Tue, Nov 30, 2011 - 12:37pm

I'm starting on my second major version of a custom D6 multistep form-based module with a few interesting requirements, particularly:

Drupal 7 #ajax incompatible with Ctools form wizard

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Thu, Oct 31, 2011 - 8:43am

According to Earl's comment on a related issue, there is an incompatibility between Ctools' Form Wizard tool and Drupal's #ajax functionality in Drupal 7.

Customizing Varnish VCL on Mercury Server

Submitted by Steve Oliver on Tue, Jun 30, 2011 - 11:35am
When getting started with Varnish on Mercury (1.1), I decided to use two resources for VCL logic:
  1. Lullabot Nate Haug's article "Configuring Varnish for High-Availability with Multiple Web Servers" (my implementation only utilizes parts of it)
  2. Stewart Robinson's HIT/MISS header set in sub vcl_deliver
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