SOLVED Please disable transparent hugepage

[girish]

Thanks for reporting upstream Let's wait for their response.

[JOduMonT]

FYI, whonix also recommend to disable HugePage as it is possible to tamper the data on transit
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM#HugePages

[girish]

This is disabled in https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/213ce114e32e6a880506e24a79b8dc1d7d2d0784

[johan]

@girish Trying a new install from scratch today (Ubuntu 20.04) and cloudron-disable-thp is stuck:

Dec 07 18:18:22 cloudron systemd[1]: Starting Disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP)...
Dec 07 18:18:22 cloudron sh[3229]: tee: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled: No such file or directory
Dec 07 18:18:22 cloudron systemd[1]: cloudron-disable-thp.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 07 18:18:22 cloudron systemd[1]: cloudron-disable-thp.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 07 18:18:22 cloudron systemd[1]: Failed to start Disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP).

[girish]

@johan Which VPS provider is this? Looks like that file is missing, maybe that feature was not complied in the kernel.

[johan]

@girish I'm using a Scaleway DEV1-M.

[johan]

@johan Don't know if that's helpful:

uname -r
5.4.0-1028-kvm

[girish]

@johan I can reproduce the problem on scaleway, thanks. It seems THP is disabled in the kernel, so the code has to check if the directory exists. Will fix this.

[girish]

@johan I have fixed this now - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/f497d5d30929584f5c312a736290c6697c9965d2 . To follow up about the other thread, after you install 5.6.3 and are up and running, do not update to 6.0! Because you will hit this THP issue again on scaleway if you update. We are making 6.0.1, but it will take till end of today since our CI takes forever...

[johan]

As I said on the other thread I seem to have managed to install cloudron on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS by following your advice to use ./cloudron-setup --version 5.6.3. I've disabled automatic upgrades and I'll wait a bit to upgrade to version 6.
All is good!