From derek at ihtfp.com Wed Nov 12 20:47:34 2025 From: derek at ihtfp.com (Derek Atkins) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:47:34 -0500 Subject: ANNOUNCE: [MAINT] Unplanned Server Outage due to expired certs Message-ID: Hi, tl;dr: code was offline for a couple hours due to a certificate expiry. It's been corrected and all is back now. Long Version: The gnucash server code runs on an infrastructure called oVirt. The infra uses a bunch of certificates for inter-process communication as well as cross-host authentication. Earlier today, these certificates expired. And then the server experienced a reboot. Normally the reboot wouldn't be a problem; there would be a 15 minute "outage" and then everything would come back normally. However, this time that didn't happen. Due to the certificates expiring, the server could not "talk to itself" and couldn't bring up the infrastructure! I had to trick the server into thinking it was this morning, and then bring up the services, then it brought up the engine. From there I was able to renew all the certificates, reboot, and get the system back up and running. For the record, I DID have an entry in my calendar to renew the certs, but due to personal reasons I did not execute on that. I have put in MULTIPLE reminders for next time. I am sorry for the inconvenience. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek at ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant