Downtime That Will Be Known As: The Christmas DT 2009

gibsonlp · Post by **gibsonlp** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:56 am

Hey guys,
At about 10PM EST we seem to have hit a kernel bug and the server simply crashed.
I was sleeping, so basically it stayed down until I woke up and saw it.
Sorry for that... I hope everybody were too drunk or something so nobody noticed

admin · Post by **admin** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:59 am

Gil: We noticed and thanks for your prompt attention.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:53 am

I was wondering what happened. Thanks for getting it back up!

electrofaro · Post by **electrofaro** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:22 am

cjj wrote:I was wondering what happened.

Same here. Thanks for a quick fix!

Will the title of the thread be fixed as well?

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:12 am

Thanks for the fix. And I mean that in every sense of the word

JimK

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:32 am

gibsonlp wrote:I hope everybody were too drunk or something so nobody noticed

Us Jews noticed!

winston · Post by **winston** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:48 am

Oh I noticed alright..........it happened on my watch

Thanks for fixing the problem Gil. I am assuming you had to perform a reboot of the servers?

gibsonlp · Post by **gibsonlp** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:13 pm

It's a single server and actually - It has a hardware watchdog that I configured to automatically reboot upon lockup, it failed to boot as less than a week ago - the first HD failed and I had it replaced (nobody noticed as we have a raid in place), I forgot to reinstall grub on the MBR so it couldn't boot...

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:36 pm

Raid? Grub? Did somebody spray insecticide on your dinner?

Geektalk.....I'll never understand it

JimK

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:47 pm

I didn't notice at the time, celebrating with family. Thanks for the prompt fix, Gil!

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:18 pm

Glad it was able to be fixed quickly.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:28 pm

jimk wrote:Raid? Grub? Did somebody spray insecticide on your dinner? Geektalk.....I'll never understand it
JimK

You forgot about the kernel bug, Jim!

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:52 am

jps wrote:
jimk wrote:Raid? Grub? Did somebody spray insecticide on your dinner? Geektalk.....I'll never understand it
JimK
You forgot about the kernel bug, Jim!

Oh....silly me!

JimK

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