DO380 labs seems to be broken

[Walid]

first lab try, I could not login to the cluster, stop/restart, still the same, started writing an issue, then lab worksEOF error during loginyou can see no DO380 LAB directory

logged in, can not see the DO380 directory on the workstation? anyone faced this

[Walid]

ok, even though the lab is active, make sure you wait a bit, 5 mins, before the api-server can answer, and make sure your lab start script does not report any issues.

[alexcorcoles · Accepted solution]

Hi Walid,

Indeed, on Friday we pushed some updates to fix some of the issues you saw. New classrooms should behave better, although you might still need to wait a few minutes for the cluster to be fully operative. We are working on further improvements to this.

With regards to not seeing the DO380 directory, "lab xxx start" should create "/home/student/DO380", but only after verifying that the cluster is working. Also, not all guided exercises/chapter reviews provide files- the directory will only be created when you start a lab that provides files. The lab script should print "Download exercise files ... SUCCESS" if it creates "/home/student/DO380".

Hope that helps,

Álex

[Walid]

Thank you, will try later this afternoon. one other thing I have noticed is that when I do ctrl-r to search my command line history, the workstation session disconnects and I lose the keyboard entry funtion into the terminal unless i start a new terminal. was that also resolved?

[alexcorcoles · Accepted solution]

Hmmm, which browser/OS are you using? I just tried Chrome and Firefox on RHEL 8 and macOS and (to my surprise, I thought this wouldn't work), ctrl+r worked for me on the console to trigger reverse search.

(On Linux and Windows ctrl+r typically is the browser's shortcut for reload, so I thought it'd just reload the page).

[Walid]

Ubuntu Linux/Firefox, will try again later and see if it is my environment, will try with windows 10 too.

[Walid]

It was a browser key binding ;-(