Never Mind! RE: [CIMC-work] stallman down]

[Elizabeth Fraser]

Just checked Chicago and its back up--will take a quick online look and
do a test post.--Eliz

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Fraser [mailto:ehf at bookbeast.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:35 PM
To: 'Ian Bicking'; 'CIMC Working'
Cc: 'CIMC Tech'
Subject: RE: [CIMC-work] stallman down]


Ian, Big ouch.  I was hoping last night when I couldn't log on to
stallman that this wasn't going to be as long-term as it now looks.
Ian, didn't you set up a a test site off-the main Indy site?  If that's
still available, would there be any sense to temporarily using it for a
newswire?  How hard would it be to transfer newswire entries from the
one to the other once the the Indy-Seattle base, whether stallman or
some new creature is up again? 

Just thinking aloud.  -- Elizabeth

-----Original Message-----
From: imc-chicago-working-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
[mailto:imc-chicago-working-bounces at lists.indymedia.org] On Behalf Of
Ian Bicking
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:39 AM
To: CIMC Working
Cc: CIMC Tech
Subject: [CIMC-work] [Fwd: [IMC-Sysadmin] Re: [Imc-tech-emerg] stallman
down]


Ouch.

-----Forwarded Message-----
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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>  
>


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