I don't know if you heard but today is Election Day in the U.S.. Luckily I only had to wait in line an hour to cast my vote so the usual weekly maintenance outage wasn't delayed. However, I wanted to reboot jocelyn to pick up a new kernel, and had issues upon shutting down and coming up not unlike those I had with bruno a week or two ago. Namely - the server couldn't find its large storage partition and/or thought it was corrupt. Not sure why but the data storage partition, which is under LVM control, wasn't being activated. I had to go through the rigamarole of booting from CD, commenting out the mount point in /etc/fstab, rebooting, then typing "vgchange -a y" myself to finally see the partition. Then everything was kosher. So far the projects are coming up just fine, though slowed as the restarted database has to flood its memory caches before reaching maximum efficiency - this usually takes around 30-45 minutes, I think.

Next Tuesday is Veteran's Day, so we'll probably have the weekly outage on Wednesday.

- Matt

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Thanks for the Update Matt

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Ditto!

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Thanks for the updates as usual Matt.

The US elections have been one of the top stories on the TV news for about the last week in the UK.

I just tried clicking on the "other international versions" of Google News and it looks like the top story just about everywhere that I looked!

Very top of the news here, and Newsnight has an all night vigil to see the state votes as they are declared

Thanks for the update.
I think it would be hard not to know that the US Presidential election is happening.

From the point of view of TV coverage here, there are Three big races this week, all getting lots of TV time.
(1) The Melbourne Cup yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon.
(2) The Elections in the USA, as I write this the polls are closing in the important eastern swing states in the USA. (early afternoon local time on Wednesday the 5th). The results of the US elections also coincide with Guy Fawkes Night, so there will be lots of fireworks.
(3) And then our own Elections here in NZ on Saturday.

Martin.

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. . . Thanks for the heads-up and the Update Matt

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

... reboot jocelyn to pick up a new kernel...

Matt,

You seen the TCP bug for recent 2.6 kernels?

... a problem with TCP options ordering, which could manifest
as connection problems with many websites (bug #43372), was solved...

That looks to be patched in 2.6.27 for Mandriva at least.

(I don't know if that might be part of your website problem. I'm still seeing page load hangs for only the s@h website. Others such as e@h are fine.)

Good luck with the continued systems juggling!

Regards,
Martin

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I know I must don't send that on "technical news" but I don't know why but last night seti's maintenance was strangly short and ET was running
Erik (france)
sorry for my english
Thanks for the update

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