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Message 942034 - Posted: 22 Oct 2009, 20:52:51 UTC

Eeewww. Last night ptolemy (an internal-use file server) crashed. Eric rebooted it this morning, and I still had a bunch of cleanup to do after that which took me until just about now. Other systems had to be rebooted, nfs/autofs daemons kicked, stale trigger files removed, etc. I also bounced informix as it seems like the science database was locked, but this happened to be two different coincident problems, one affecting the splitters, one affected the assimilators, and making it seem like both were hanging on the science database.

The latter problem was a real nuisance. I had to reboot vader, mess around with iptables/network configs, /etc/exports, etc. all of which seemed to do nothing. The problem was that vader couldn't mount the result storage device (which is exported from bruno) while all other systems had no trouble mounting it. I never figured out the exact problem, but yum'ing in the latest nfs-utils package seemed to massage the right muscle and suddenly it was visible on vader. Fine. Everything is sort of catching up now. Bob also got the mysql replica in working order again, so that's good.

Hopefully this isn't a sign that ptolemy is on its way out... Ugh.

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Message 942055 - Posted: 22 Oct 2009, 23:42:31 UTC - in response to Message 942034.  

Hopefully this isn't a sign that ptolemy is on its way out... Ugh.

Have you tried letting a Voodoo lady with a naked chicken dance around it? :-)


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Message 942076 - Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 0:32:20 UTC - in response to Message 942055.  

Hopefully this isn't a sign that ptolemy is on its way out... Ugh.

Have you tried letting a Voodoo lady with a naked chicken dance around it? :-)


It is usually a dead chicken that is being waved.


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Message 942096 - Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 2:13:48 UTC - in response to Message 942076.  

Hopefully this isn't a sign that ptolemy is on its way out... Ugh.

Have you tried letting a Voodoo lady with a naked chicken dance around it? :-)


It is usually a dead chicken that is being waved.


depends on the culture. LOL!


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Message 942355 - Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 20:30:37 UTC

ref Monty Python

The knight in shining armour would walk in,
and give it a thunk on the head with the chicken,
I don`t know what affect that has on server`s :)
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Message 942406 - Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 22:48:38 UTC

Erm...


...what?
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Message 942429 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 0:29:42 UTC - in response to Message 942406.  

Erm...


...what?

Obviously you have never worked with a really senior SysAdmin that can fix any problem with the correct incantation, occasionally this must also be accompanied by waving a dead chicken.


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Message 942434 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 0:49:00 UTC - in response to Message 942429.  
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Erm...


...what?

Obviously you have never worked with a really senior SysAdmin that can fix any problem with the correct incantation, occasionally this must also be accompanied by waving a dead chicken.


Or by sacrificing an intern. (and people wonder why we go through so many ....)
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Message 942495 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 5:25:29 UTC - in response to Message 942429.  

Erm...


...what?

Obviously you have never worked with a really senior SysAdmin that can fix any problem with the correct incantation, occasionally this must also be accompanied by waving a dead chicken.

You mean the burning sage and chanting is all a front and its really the chicken?

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Message 942506 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 7:48:01 UTC - in response to Message 942495.  

Obviously you have never worked with a really senior SysAdmin that can fix any problem with the correct incantation, occasionally this must also be accompanied by waving a dead chicken.

You mean the burning sage and chanting is all a front and its really the chicken?

Yes, it is.
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Message 942510 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 8:31:32 UTC

Nothing to do with wearing a gigantic purple pineapple on your head whilst singing the Bolivian national anthem backwards then...
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Message 942544 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 14:07:31 UTC

How did you know about my incantation?


Might not work on all systems, but certainly cured a few *b* 36s over the years.....
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Message 942555 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 15:04:16 UTC - in response to Message 942544.  

Someone's membership is going to be revoked for letting the secrets out!!
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Message 942629 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 19:59:50 UTC - in response to Message 942434.  

Erm...


...what?

Obviously you have never worked with a really senior SysAdmin that can fix any problem with the correct incantation, occasionally this must also be accompanied by waving a dead chicken.


Or by sacrificing an intern. (and people wonder why we go through so many ....)


We call them graduate students.

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Message 942639 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 21:32:49 UTC - in response to Message 942555.  

Someone's membership is going to be revoked for letting the secrets out!!

I think there is an incantation to stop that ...

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Message 942662 - Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 23:47:02 UTC

Reminds me of a learned co-worker years ago, who when faced with a large and difficult task, would solemnly say "this will take a while, somebody go get me a few candles and a six pack of chicken blood".

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Message 942799 - Posted: 25 Oct 2009, 20:03:13 UTC

Across ssl and silverlight night,
Thunder cracks an flash from psu
Thyme sage and willow stick.
and burnt essence of diode will do the trick :)

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Message 942864 - Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 4:51:42 UTC

sounds like you had you're hands full. thanks for getting us ship shape matt.
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