OpenVZ based Arch Linux VPS's offline at Virpus,ZoomVPS,BoostVPS and others?

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Posted by radix0, 01-11-2011, 06:39 PM
Hello all,
I have a number of Arch Linux OpenVZ based VPS's with a good number of hosting providers. I do a regular weekly update (pacman -Syu cron job) on all my VPS's. The last update rendered all my VPS's unbootable on every host. It looks like the package update "linux-api-headers 2.6.36.2-1" does not play well with the kernels that have OpenVZ support baked in. Currently I have VPS offline from Virpus and ZoomVPS/BoostHosting amongst others. Virpus and Zoom have booth been rather unresponsive for a number of days now. Are there any other Arch users out there effect by this? Have any hosting providers found a fix? Any info would be great.
Posted by layer0, 01-11-2011, 08:04 PM
You may have some more luck posting here? https://bbs.archlinux.org/
Posted by radix0, 01-11-2011, 11:16 PM
Apparently RAM host knows whats going on https://forum.ramhost.us/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=408 Maybe I should have chosen them as my host.
Posted by ramnet, 01-12-2011, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radix0

Apparently RAM host knows whats going on https://forum.ramhost.us/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=408 Maybe I should have chosen them as my host.

Yes ArchLinux recently increased the minimum kernel version required.

We're currently spoofing 2.6.27 kernel versions (actually using 2.6.26) to keep our ArchLinux VPS clients online and in working order