Suspended in Gaffa (Jan 24 2011)

The problems last week with bruno (which continue, and I'll address below) completely overshadowed problems with our radar blanking suite which suddenly was unable to convert raw data into clean data which can then be split into workunits. So we ran out of work to send out over the weekend, and I was personally unable to do anything to help the effort in figuring out why. However, immediately this morning I spotted the problem. Long story short, this was one of those cases where the wild error messages with impossible number values were obscuring the less obvious real problem, which was simply a configuration file had gone missing. I replaced this file, and new work should be coming down the pike shortly.

Back to bruno: the woes continue with this system regarding its drives, though I am trying a few more things out before I throw my hands up in complete frustration. It would indeed be a shame to simply abandon this server as it has a lot to offer if it works. We'll have our server meeting later today to discuss where to go next on this front - I just wanted to give y'all an earlier than normal "heads up" today given the loss of work, etc.

- Matt

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Thanks for the news, Matt.

Glad you got the blanking problems sorted.....I am sure many folks will be happy to see new working coming down the pike soon.

And good luck with Bruno, my friend.
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As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

Thank you Matt! These little bits of information are invaluable to us out here in crunch land. We really do enjoy knowing what's happening, and appreciate your taking the time to tell us.

Steve!
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Good news - I was just now able to get an OS on the old bruno and reboot the system and it worked! There must have been some data gunk on the old root drives messing up the FC14 install. The installer kept crashing until I finally shredded these three drives (putting all zeros on them).

Of course, we still have to figure out the RAID situation for the remaining 21 drives. We currently have no working controller in the system, so we need to decide what to do next.

- Matt
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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Wow!!!
2 victories in 1 day....
Well done, Sir.

If a new raid controller is all it will take to fix Bruno, that is good news.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

Awesome new's Matt. Thanks for the quick update!
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Thanks for the updates Matt, glad you're making progress,

Claggy

Two down, one to go. Great work.

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Great news all round. Thanks for all the hard work. On a side note Tech news page hasn't been updated since 13/01/11
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Matt, thanks for the news!

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I hope you do not lose data work?
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Guess it wasn't as simple as Matt made it sound. They must have run into some more problems as there is still no new work. :-( Hope it's not too serious and they are able to get back up soon.