[CIMC-work] [Fwd: [IMC-Sysadmin] Re: [Imc-tech-emerg] stallman down]

[Ian Bicking]

Ouch.

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From: s banerian <banerian at u.washington.edu>
Cc: imc-sysadmin <imc-sysadmin at lists.indymedia.org>, imc-tech-emerg at lists.cat.org.au
Subject: [IMC-Sysadmin] Re: [Imc-tech-emerg] stallman down
Date: 11 Jul 2003 00:34:46 -0700

i went to speakeasy to respond to this.
stallman was locked up, no keyboard response.

i power cycled it.  things looked normal, and got past the grub menu, 
and after much normal looking stuff, imessages indicated that sdb was 
being spun up.
but that kept going, and after a bit, there were a few more messages 
before a kernel panic.  unable to mount root fs on device.

noticed that it was whining pretty bad, so i thought a disk went bad. 
 pulled off top , but was not able to localize the source of the whine.
rebooted, and went into the various scsi bios/setups.
the last one was the most informative.  scsi raid setup.
i was able to get rid of the whine, by selecting the option to Turn Off 
Alarm.
in the raid config screen, the panel said that raid was degraded.

at this point, i have no more ideas as to how to proceed best.
i am wondering if dns ought to be pointed elsewhere, or it a temp box 
should be put up to take the IP. or inglis?

this is going to be a big downtime.

stefani



bks10 at cornell.edu wrote:

>Hey,
>
>You can ping stallman, but that's it (verified on three machines, and 
>with a few other people on IRC). Seems like someone better take a 
>look-see and see what's goin on.
>
>ski at staughton:~$ ssh stallman.indymedia.org
>ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
>ski at staughton:~$ wget --timeout=300 --tries=1 www.indymedia.org
>--00:53:50--  http://www.indymedia.org/
>           => `index.html'
>Resolving www.indymedia.org... done.
>Connecting to www.indymedia.org[216.231.32.98]:80... connected.
>HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
>Read error (Connection timed out) in headers.
>Giving up.
>
>Peace,
>Brian Szymanski
>ski at indy
>
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