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Wired down?

Postby sat-unreg on Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:43 pm

WIred seems to be down just now; at least, I can't get in. I'm allowed to log in but then things fail. Is the fileserver down again (so no home directories)?
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Re: Wired down?

Postby Fawksie on Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:29 am

Precisely. It seems that somebody has brought NFS up and not brought up the /home mount on wired.
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Re: Wired down?

Postby dasx199 on Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:21 pm

Slightly more complicated than that (remounting was the first thing I tried). Rebooting wired also doesn't help.
Smoked's kernel has locked - using 100% of one of the CPU's. The logs also show a lot of I/O errors for a specific hard disk (known issue - requires a reboot).
I need to reboot all of the boxes starting with smoked, but running 'reboot -f' on it causes the shell I'm using to hang indefinitely (and no reboot). A new box to replace it is going to be installed before freshers week (although the current problem could be software or hardware). In the mean time I need to get down to St Andrews and reboot manually. I'm trying to get hold of Jaunty to do it. Failing that I'll be down next week.
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Re: Wired down?

Postby sat on Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:04 pm

OK. Thanks for the update. Will incoming mail be cached somewhere rather than going to the Maildirs? Or will it be bouncing back?
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Re: Wired down?

Postby dasx199 on Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:50 pm

I am hoping that I will be cached somewhere but tbh I need to have another look and see; as if it cannot write to the maildirs (which are on the same machine - mail arrives at smoked) then I doubt it is going to be able to write to any hard disk. Mail is currently being accepted for delivery. I could get it to stop accepting emails but then the mail gets lost anyway. Not ideal but I can't get down to fix it until at least next week.

More positively: I've remembered to restart the irc server :).
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Re: Wired down?

Postby dasx199 on Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:21 pm

Wired is now back up properly. Jaunty got it rebooted. Most of the mail seems to have just been delayed.
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