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Grex > Helpers > #144: Grex System Problems - Fall 2005 | |
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Grex System Problems - Fall 2005
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Sep 23 02:44 UTC 2005 |
This item is for system problems. If something on Grex isn't working
right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.),
this is the place to announce it. Except for security holes. If you
find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".
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naftee
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response 1 of 276:
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Sep 24 16:55 UTC 2005 |
did GreX have to be shut down just to roll the agora cf ?
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sabre
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response 2 of 276:
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Sep 24 17:41 UTC 2005 |
This item should fill up real fast considering the ways things have
been going here lately
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rcurl
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response 3 of 276:
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Sep 25 07:00 UTC 2005 |
I just read #2 and Grex froze and finally dropped out. I just got back on.
What was the cause and cure of this hiccup?
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johnnie
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response 4 of 276:
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Sep 25 13:42 UTC 2005 |
Via Backtalk, the current agora (autumn) jusst hangs when I try to do
anything. All other confs work fine, as does accessing via telnet.
It was doing this before the Friday/Saturday downtime, if that matters.
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remmers
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response 5 of 276:
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Sep 25 16:36 UTC 2005 |
Re #3: It was one of our daily-or-so kernel panics. :( The system
rebooted itself automatically.
Re #4: That's the "new agora" Backtalk glitch that's been around for a
while. A workaround that usually works is to telnet or ssh to grex and
join agora via picospan (i.e. the "bbs" command) - after that, Backtalk
works with agora too. (I'm entering this response via Backtalk, but did
join agora via bbs yesterday, which is why I don't think I got hit by
the glitch this time.)
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johnnie
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response 6 of 276:
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Sep 25 19:35 UTC 2005 |
Yep, working just dandy now.
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naftee
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response 7 of 276:
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Sep 25 21:34 UTC 2005 |
dandy pandy
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sabre
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response 8 of 276:
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Sep 26 16:06 UTC 2005 |
re#7
The issue isn't confined to agora..of course.
backtalk crashes in coop all the time.
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remmers
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response 9 of 276:
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Sep 26 18:01 UTC 2005 |
Hmm - not for me. Are you getting actual crashing, or is it hanging?
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sabre
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response 10 of 276:
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Sep 26 19:24 UTC 2005 |
re# 9
It brings up about half the items...then it displays the "BACKTALK
HAS CRASHED" error. It hasn't happened to me today.It happened
constantly last week. I worked around the issue by telnetting in.
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jep
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response 11 of 276:
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Sep 30 17:03 UTC 2005 |
I haven't been able to connect to Backtalk for a week, either from home or
from work. I just decided to try telnet and it worked, much to my
surprise. Backtalk seems to time out over about 3 minutes.
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jep
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response 12 of 276:
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Sep 30 21:32 UTC 2005 |
I am now in via Backtalk. Thanks to whoever got it working! Once
you're used to Backtalk, Picospan doesn't cut it any more.
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naftee
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response 13 of 276:
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Sep 30 21:36 UTC 2005 |
unlucky !
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remmers
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response 14 of 276:
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Oct 1 12:06 UTC 2005 |
Re #12: I don't think anybody did anything to get Backtalk working. It
seems to have a bug that causes it to hang, for certain users under
certain circumstances at certain times - and then suddenly start working
again for those users. I don't think the cause has been fully diagnosed.
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nharmon
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response 15 of 276:
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Oct 1 14:03 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk stops working for me if I fiddle with any of its settings. When
it happens, I gotta blow away the config. This always fixes the problem.
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slynne
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response 16 of 276:
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Oct 1 14:18 UTC 2005 |
I have had no problems at all with backtalk
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remmers
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response 17 of 276:
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Oct 2 18:45 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk has several interfaces - pistachio, bubblegum, etc. I use
pistachio and almost never have problems. What interfaces are other
folks using?
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naftee
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response 18 of 276:
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Oct 2 22:20 UTC 2005 |
vanilla.
it's problematic :(
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jep
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response 19 of 276:
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Oct 3 02:41 UTC 2005 |
I use pistachio. I didn't do anything to fix Backtalk for myself,
either. It has resumed working for me both at work and at home, both
at once.
It wasn't responding at all last week. It looked to me like Grex was
down. I thought Grex *was* down.
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davel
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response 20 of 276:
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Oct 8 20:14 UTC 2005 |
Grex appears to have been down for almost 24 hours, though it did respond
to ping during at least some of that time. The Grex Status page said it
was up, but it didn't respond to connections & last shows a crash/reboot.
There's nothing in the motd.
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davel
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response 21 of 276:
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Oct 8 20:15 UTC 2005 |
Er, that's not connected with jep's response. This was yesterday afternoon
through this afternoon.
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tod
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response 22 of 276:
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Oct 10 16:39 UTC 2005 |
24 hours eh
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naftee
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response 23 of 276:
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Oct 10 17:03 UTC 2005 |
hi tod !
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tod
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response 24 of 276:
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Oct 10 17:09 UTC 2005 |
"Yo Jim, those are some BAD threads!" -Pimp in Superman the Movie
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