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Grex > Helpers > #142: Grex System Problems - Summer 2005 | |
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jimj
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response 39 of 281:
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Jun 30 13:27 UTC 2005 |
I've experienced the backtalk problem with agora. Usually I ssh in and
blow away .agora* in ~/.cfdir. Probably that's not a realistic option
for everyone since some people like to keep the status of the threads up
to date where I just mark everything as read after I visit each time anyway.
I've experienced the backtalk problem in a few other obscure conferences
over the past month or so. I think either comics or games was one. I
really don't remember.
It happened to me relatively recently when I was at the agora item
listing and I clicked on the 'mark all as seen', and as I was waiting
for it to refresh I middle-clicked to open in a new tab one of the items
that suddenly jumped out at me. After I closed that item I couldn't get
back into agora until I blew away my agora prefs. Maybe that will help
in tracking this down.
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naftee
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response 40 of 281:
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Jun 30 15:26 UTC 2005 |
i blew your mom away
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drew
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response 41 of 281:
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Jul 2 04:32 UTC 2005 |
While dialed in direct, I still can't enter *anything* in BBS. I get some sort
of core dump error.
Also, while dialed in direct and downloading via Zmodem, I get a Bad CRC error
every 16K or so bytes.
Neither of these problems were present before the move to Colo.\
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drew
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response 42 of 281:
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Jul 2 04:34 UTC 2005 |
On second thought the Core Dump errors *might* have been occurring between
the move to the new system and the move to Colo. Can't remember for sure.
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keesan
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response 43 of 281:
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Jul 3 22:38 UTC 2005 |
It is taking ridiculously long to download a file from the web to grex, and
almost as long from grex to my computer via 14.4K modem.
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krokus
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response 44 of 281:
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Jul 5 03:39 UTC 2005 |
Thank you to whomever changed whatever it was that kept clearing the
screen during login. If I wanted my screen cleared, I'd put it in
my .login. :)
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naftee
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response 45 of 281:
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Jul 5 14:41 UTC 2005 |
thank you, krokus :)
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eprom
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response 46 of 281:
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Jul 5 17:01 UTC 2005 |
/a is almost full......again
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twenex
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response 47 of 281:
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Jul 5 17:02 UTC 2005 |
Good grief.
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sholmes
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response 48 of 281:
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Jul 5 17:31 UTC 2005 |
enough of hearing /a is full again. Rename it to /k or /l or something for
a change.
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tod
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response 49 of 281:
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Jul 5 17:49 UTC 2005 |
re #48
I second the motion
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mcnally
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response 50 of 281:
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Jul 5 17:52 UTC 2005 |
I have temporarily freed space on /a by deleting .pine-debug files again,
but not as much space was freed this time (which of course makes sense.)
I will make a proposal in the staff conference that we act immediately
to move a non-negligible number of user home directories currently on /a
to /c to better balance out the disk usage between the two partitions.
There's no reason that /a should have to fill up again and again and again.
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cross
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response 51 of 281:
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Jul 5 18:25 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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twenex
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response 52 of 281:
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Jul 5 18:27 UTC 2005 |
Don't mince words, Dan. Tell 'em what you REALLY think.
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nharmon
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response 53 of 281:
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Jul 5 18:49 UTC 2005 |
Is there a way we can store the log files off of Grex?
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mcnally
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response 54 of 281:
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Jul 5 18:55 UTC 2005 |
Probably, but why bother? The issue isn't that we're storing log files
on Grex, it's that we're storing home directories in a filesystem which
is mostly full because the size of the disk partition it resides on was
reduced without re-allocating some of the home directories contained on
it to other partitions.
There is currently plenty of disk space, we've just got things laid out
in the wrong places. It can be fixed, and fairly easily, and I will
make sure it gets done reasonably soon. In the meantime there's enough
space free on /a to last another day or two, so there should be no need
to panic..
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cross
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response 55 of 281:
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Jul 5 20:48 UTC 2005 |
This response has been erased.
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slynne
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response 56 of 281:
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Jul 5 21:05 UTC 2005 |
You know, you run the risk of drowning when you panic. ;) Thanks for the
work and for the update, mcnally
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naftee
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response 57 of 281:
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Jul 5 21:52 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, slynne ! If only you had a home directory on /c , like all the
sensible people. Really, people should follow my example.
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mcnally
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response 58 of 281:
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Jul 5 22:02 UTC 2005 |
If there is anyone who wants to volunteer to have their home directory
relocated to /c, you can e-mail me privately and I will move it. There's
no need to create a new account to get a homedir on the other drive.
I hope to balance things out so that there's not much advantage (or more
appropriately, so there's no *dis*advantage) either way.
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naftee
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response 59 of 281:
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Jul 5 22:28 UTC 2005 |
If anyone who gets re-located wants to e-mail me, I'll personally send them
back an e-mail welcoming them to /c and congratulating them on their choice.
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keesan
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response 60 of 281:
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Jul 6 02:25 UTC 2005 |
Perhaps you could award volunteers with an extra 100K disk space if not enough
people volunteer.
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naftee
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response 61 of 281:
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Jul 6 02:32 UTC 2005 |
i'll award them with a personalized e-mail
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nharmon
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response 62 of 281:
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Jul 6 03:24 UTC 2005 |
Thanks naftee!
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keesan
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response 63 of 281:
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Jul 6 03:33 UTC 2005 |
In addition to getting downloads via modem (14.4K) of about 350-450 CPS for
the past few days, 484-0513, I have been getting frequent disconnects (three
in about ten minutes). It is not the phone line or modem, they work fine
elsewhere. I finally gave up and telnetted.
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