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pfv
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Yet Another Crash
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Oct 23 14:12 UTC 1996 |
Well, day before yesterday, Mnut went down thrice.. Yesterday, it
died at ~7:30pm. It's still shot.
I had wondered a few minutes earlier: Yapp had reported something
about a UNK Error (?) and File Allocation Error (?) before hitting
some sort of "time warp" in a few confs.
I went thru one conf simply using 'q' so the flags would update.
I dropped out of Yapp, re-entered, and not only were NO errors
reported, but the rest of the confs were up to date.
Have at it, folks..
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dpc
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response 1 of 109:
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Oct 23 17:06 UTC 1996 |
I went over to Supreme HQ at the NEW Center about 9:30
yesterday evening. The M-Net console was displaying the Award
Software, Inc. System Configurations screen. This shows, among
other things, how much memory the System has. Below that screen
appeared:
Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready
So I pressed a key and got the same error message.
Then I rebooted by doing control-alt-delete. M-Net hung
at the same screen, with the same message.
Finally, I pressed the "reset" button on the tower. It went
through the memory test, and then to the System Configurations screen--
and the same error message!
I called Linda Clippert. She said that either we had a bad
disk, or that "the operating system is missing." She thought someone
might have erased it.
Has someone stolen M-Net's brain?
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carla
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response 2 of 109:
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Oct 23 17:14 UTC 1996 |
Why is it that m-net goes down like this and has
repeated crisises? It's like someone is trying to sabotage it
or something.
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pfv
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response 3 of 109:
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Oct 23 18:35 UTC 1996 |
BSDI, yapp and elm wouldn't let me enter either an item or mail,
but I had a list of !w (showing a load average above 21!) and the
/var/mail directory: we had huge amounts of mail being handled.
Several users - in the first screen - had 7 figure mail sizes.
sendmail and popmail were running like made, and then... *POOF*
System died.
Oh yeah, in the first 17 minutes we had over 20 indian users.
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dpc
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response 4 of 109:
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Oct 23 23:10 UTC 1996 |
M-Net is back up again! Turns out Leeron Kopelman had left a disk
in Drive A accidentally, and when M-Net had one of its "routine"
crashes yesterday at 6:08 p.m., it couldn't reboot itself because
of the disk. Hahaha!!
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mdw
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response 5 of 109:
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Oct 31 11:56 UTC 1996 |
M-net probably has a sick disk (probably sd2 - a micropolis). There are
scads of sd2 errors in the system error logs, and the periodic intervals
where the system hangs, but still echoes characters, are because the
scsi bus has hung, & has to be reset.
The usual things to do are to check cabling, cooling, and to be sure
there's a fresh backup. If there's nothing obviously wrong with sd2,
then it will probably be necessary to figure out how to try running the
system without it. It's probably best to plan on replacing it, tho if
you're lucky, you'll be able to get the old drive fixed.
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russ
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response 6 of 109:
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Oct 31 11:59 UTC 1996 |
As of fifteen minutes ago, M-Net was not answering on 994-6333 or
996-4644. So much for uptime.
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phoenix
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response 7 of 109:
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Oct 31 13:10 UTC 1996 |
i guess it's been up since last night, leeron posted a response in
item #21, response 57 in agora
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pfv
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response 8 of 109:
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Oct 31 13:29 UTC 1996 |
Hmmm... It replied to neither Telnet or the Dialins - last night
or today.
Doctor: "You ever have this before?"
Patient: "Yes, doc"
Doctor: "Well, You got it again."
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dpc
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response 9 of 109:
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Oct 31 16:11 UTC 1996 |
I just got back from Supreme HQ. The modems were turned off.
There was a note from Leeron on the console dated October 30 at
7:20 a.m. saying the xternal disk (sd2) is flaking out and the
System won't reboot.
Soo - we're still down!
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dpc
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response 10 of 109:
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Oct 31 18:46 UTC 1996 |
At 1:30 this afternoon I dropped off the ailing disk to Jim Knight
at Medstat. He said he would check to see if the disk's power supply
was causing the problem, or if it was the disk itself. Then he put
on his surgical mask and took out a saw...
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maus
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response 11 of 109:
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Oct 31 21:46 UTC 1996 |
<maus cries>
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russ
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response 12 of 109:
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Nov 1 02:20 UTC 1996 |
If wurst comes to wurst, a new 3 GB from Jemmie is only about $450.
(I never sausage a good deal anywhere before.)
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fubar
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response 13 of 109:
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Nov 1 02:36 UTC 1996 |
I'm sick and tired of systems with disk problems!! with
grex and M-Net down for days, I'm repeatedly hoping I can get a
few minutes to fprward my e-mail to my ISP, although it might
shoot up the load. Please keep us updated, dpc.
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woolf
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response 14 of 109:
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Nov 1 11:55 UTC 1996 |
Well...it appears that I must check in here for any news until M-Nut comes
back up...I hope it gets fixed soon..I hate doing nothing but housework when
I get home in the morning....<grumble>...
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goroke
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response 15 of 109:
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Nov 1 19:13 UTC 1996 |
Don't suppose the life of that drive was shortened by all of the paging, was
it?
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dpc
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response 16 of 109:
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Nov 1 20:07 UTC 1996 |
Good news from Jim Knight! It seems that only the disk's power
supply was bad. We are in the process of buying a new case for the
disk drive, which includes a new power supply. It will cost about
$100. If we get the new case in the next couple of hours, and Jim
or Leeron can mount the old disk in it, I can run it back to the
NEW Center, plug in the cables, and reboot the System.
If we can't get the case today, M-Net will probably be down
until Monday.
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steff
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response 17 of 109:
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Nov 1 21:05 UTC 1996 |
Ay! Hurry up...I'm so bored.
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kerouac
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response 18 of 109:
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Nov 1 22:39 UTC 1996 |
maybe mnet should buy abackup disk anyway,just tobe on the safeside.
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fubar
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response 19 of 109:
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Nov 1 22:48 UTC 1996 |
You're joking.. Right?
Are you aware of M-Net's financial state?
Dang, I kinda wish I could help out, because I have all
this free time and know a buncha shit about hardware.
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pfv
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response 20 of 109:
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Nov 1 22:51 UTC 1996 |
Free time and a buncha shit is what we have ;-)
Meanwhile, I presume that the last 2 hours have been unproductive.
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akasha
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response 21 of 109:
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Nov 2 01:41 UTC 1996 |
argh
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darkman
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response 22 of 109:
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Nov 2 04:03 UTC 1996 |
I want my damn M-net
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woolf
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response 23 of 109:
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Nov 2 12:51 UTC 1996 |
Hmmmm...I guess it's still not up..and it's now saturday morning...hopefully
it'll be up sometime later today...well...I guess I'll just have to do some
more housework...<grumble>
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fuubar
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response 24 of 109:
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Nov 2 23:18 UTC 1996 |
Saturday at 6:00pm and the system is still down.
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