[isomerica-user] Unexpected downtime

[Dan Noe]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:05:55AM -0400, Dan Noe wrote:
> Starting around midnight we encountered a bizarre kernel bug which
> resulted in colobus becoming wedged with a large number of processes
> (~95) stuck in the "uninteruptible sleep" state.  This required a reboot
> to clear although the system was minimally usable.  As a precautionary
> measure, I am going to upgrade to the latest version of the Linux kernel
> tomorrow or Tuesday when I have the opportunity to fix things if they
> break.  I am pretty confident there hasn't been any lasting damage to
> the filesystem.

As you may have noticed, the earlier downtime was not the end of the
story and there was some further damage which manifested itself
similarly this morning.  I went to Boston and repaired the filesystem,
then backed it up and recreated the system array from the backup.  This
should permanently fix any problems.

-D

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