[plug] Downtime

[W.Kenworthy]

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BillK

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 12:00 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> On 11/23/06, Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > Timothy White wrote:
> >
> > > We apologise for the downtime of the plug servers last night. I'm
> > > still not sure what happened, as we were in the process of trying to
> > > fix mod_perl, and we even lost our serial console connection.
> >
> > I suspect it was a hardware problem with shameless (unless you were
> > doing something as root that was likely to hang the machine? the kernel
> > we have on there is sensitive to ifup/ifdown-ing interfaces in the wrong
> > order).
> 
> Well, looking at the logs, it just died. Nothing in there about a
> shutdown or anything. And as it didn't even respond to the serial
> console, it was really dead. The most we did as root, was restarting
> apache!
> 
> >
> > > On that note, any budding Debianites who wish to backport
> > > libapache2-mod-perl2 to sarge, please put your hand up, as I've failed
> > > a simple attempt at it!
> >
> > Does the version in etch fix things?  We're near enough to a release we
> > could probably upgrade the PLUG machines now.
> 
> Well, if your willing to upgrade to etch.... I've not yet tried the
> etch version, as it would require pulling in apache2.2 as well as a
> newer perl.
> 
> >
> > > p.s. I'm not sure who reset it
> >
> > Trent Lloyd, who works for Arachnet^W Host Away.  I grabbed him on IRC
> > last night.
> 
> I suspected it was him. I was about to call him at Host Away when I
> noticed that the machine had just come up! Thanks Trent!
> 
> Also, if anyone has a simple serial circuit, that can "short" a
> circuit, or worst case, run a relay...
> It would be nice to build a simple serial dongle, that goes on the
> reset pins of shameless's motherboard, for completely remote reboot's!
> (Although, it helps if spark doesn't hang for so long on NFS errors,
> might have to look at that, timeo decrease?)
> 
> Tim