From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Jul 16 15:22:45 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 61155 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 22:22:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Jul 2003 22:22:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 22:22:44 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19cufZ-0004Sy-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:22:41 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19cufR-0004Sa-00; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:22:33 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19cuet-0004Rk-00; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:21:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:21:59 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org, llg-members@yahoogroups.com, dk@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Downtime Post-Mortem Message-ID: <20030716222159.GC5287@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org, llg-members@yahoogroups.com, dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 5882 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20364 Short version: The box is now at my house, where it has four times as much bandwidth (1.5/768 ADSL, up from a rate-shaped 200Kbps connection) and where I can deal with problems quickly without needing someone else to give me physical access to the machine. This is a Good Thing. Most of the downtime was *NOT*, in any way, my fault, for the record. There will be more downtime later in the week, not sure when, but not for more than an hour or two. Detailed version: Here's the chain of event: Jun 14 10:51 Machine crashed. No idea why; possibly bad memory. Jun 14 10:55 I mailed my co-lo, but to the *wrong* *address*. Jun 14 17:15 Realizing my error, I re-send the mail. The mail states that if the machine doesn't reboot cleanly, I'll be pulling the machine out of the co-lo, because I apparently can't make a 1U machine stable enough to stay in a co-lo where I can't get access 24/7. Jun 14 17:45 Co-lo guy uses a remote power setup to power off and then power on the machine's power jack. Machine fails to come up. Jun 15 I mail the co-lo to find out when I can take it out, discover it's not until tomorrow (seriously, I have to wait a full day to get in, no joke). I start working on getting the DNS pointing to the secondary IP at my home. Jun 16 10:30 I phone co-lo guy to say when Ruth Anne (who graciously helped with all this; thank you again!) will be by to get the machine. Scheduled pickup is 12:30. Jun 16 12:15 Co-lo guy calls back and says that the reason the machine never came up is because it was off. My machines are *always* set to stay powered off after a power outage, and guess what having the power dropped on the machine's power jack looked like? Yep, a power outage. He hadn't bothered to check that the machine was actually receiving power when he power cycled it 43 hours earlier. Jun 16 12:20 Machine completes its successful boot process. Since there's no way I'm leaving the machine in a co-lo that can pull this shit, I shut it down cleanly for the removal. Jun 16 13:15 Machine is installed and up at my house. Machine shows signs of memory wierdness on boot up, will be checking that later. No sign of reason for crash in the logs. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui