Category Archives: Troubleshooting

Various problems solutions

Debian: logrotate won’t rotate logs with an “unknown group ‘syslog'” error

9 October 2019
 

 We have an AWS EC2 with Debian and logrotate. One day its root partition was exhausted and when I started investigating it – found, that we have a bunch of files like /var/log/syslog.N.gz. At the same time by default logrotate creates a config file to rotate syslog log files: [simterm] root@monitoring-dev:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog # Ansible… Read More »

PostgreSQL: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “name”

11 September 2019
 

 A quick note mainly for myself on how to enable remote access in PostgreSQL and create its database dump. An EC2-server moved to our AWS account with one website. During an attempt to connect to the PostgreSQL running on this host – the “FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user “name”” appears. And the same error… Read More »

Kubernetes: part 4 – AWS EKS authentification, aws-iam-authenticator and AWS IAM

3 September 2019
 

  Let’s proceed with our AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, EKS. Previous parts: Kubernetes: part 1 – architecture and main components overview Kubernetes: part 2 – a cluster set up on AWS with AWS cloud-provider and AWS LoadBalancer Kubernetes: part 3 – AWS EKS overview and manual EKS cluster set up. In the previous – Kubernetes:… Read More »

SonarQube: solving “Unrecoverable indexation failures” and Elasticsearch “Disk watermark exceeded” errors

29 August 2019
 

 We are using SonarQube started from a Jenkins jobs. See more at SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline in Docker. So, the SonarQube is started from the Jenkins – all good here, but inside SonarQube we can see errors: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unrecoverable indexation failures: 1 errors among 1 requests at org.sonar.server.es.IndexingListener$1.onFinish(IndexingListener.java:39) at org.sonar.server.es.BulkIndexer.stop(BulkIndexer.java:122) … And host… Read More »

Redis: fork – Cannot allocate memory, Linux, virtual memory and vm.overcommit_memory

28 August 2019
 

 Currently, I’m configuring a Redis as a caching service for our application and during that, I faced with the question: do I need to set vm.overcommit_memory to the value 1, i.e. disable it – or not? The question is quite old for me, see The story, but only now I found time to get to… Read More »

AWS RDS: “SQLSTATE[22001] – Data too long for column” using MariaDB 10.2

8 August 2019
 

 We have a PHP-application with the AWS RDS MariaDB as a backend. On the previously used 10.0 version all was good, but right after we upgraded to the MariaDB 10.2 – got errors during tests: PDOException: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column ‘name’ at row 1 in /data/projects/projectname/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php:1290 The first… Read More »

AWS: S3 Cross-Region Replication with DeleteMarkers set up

17 July 2019
 

 At this moment I’m configuring a new CDN for our project. Will use CloudFront and Cloudflare here so need to create two dedicated buckets with different names – cdn.cfr.example.com => CloudFront and cdn.cfl.example.com => Cloudflare. To avoid coping data each time to both buckets – an AWS S3 Cross-Region Replication can be used, so data… Read More »

SonarQube: the “SCM provider autodetection failed” error

19 June 2019
 

 We have a fresh SonarQube installation (see details in the SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline from Docker post). The issue But in its dashboard there is always an error: SCM provider autodetection failed. Please use “sonar.scm.provider” to define SCM of your project, or disable the SCM Sensor in the project settings. Also, it’s displayed… Read More »

SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline in Docker

18 June 2019
 

 The task is to run our backend PHP tests using SonarQube from a jenkins Pipeline job. Jenkins running in Docker and all its builds also uses Docker. The main issue I faced during this setup was the fact that SonarQube’s container inside spawns another process with Elastisearch (while Docker concept says “1 service per one… Read More »

Jenkins: running PHPUnit from Codeception by a Pull Request in Github and Allure-reports

6 June 2019
 

 The task is to create a Jenkins Scripted Pipeline job to run PHPUnit with our PHP-based backend unit-tests. To run PHPUnit Codeception will be used. This Jenkins job must be triggered from a Github repository after creating Pull Request so will use Github Pull-Request Builder plugin here. To view generated reports – Allure Jenkins plugin… Read More »