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Offline EEVblogTopic starter

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Forum Outage
« on: November 16, 2013, 10:29:46 pm »
The forum went down overnight.
There were some corrupted database tables, not sure of the cause yet. Hopefully nothing lost.
It's back up and running now thanks to gnif  :-+  :clap:
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2013, 10:34:25 pm »
Was just about to post - must have been monumental ! I was in the middle of scouring posts, then the crash.
No pings for an hour or so, then database corruption errors! Phewwww
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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2013, 10:44:41 pm »
The server hard rebooted 9 hours ago and corrupted some database tables in the process. Not sure yet what caused the hard reboot.
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2013, 10:45:32 pm »
Glad to see it is back up...
I come here when things are slow over on QRZ (The Zed).
Sue AF6LJ
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2013, 10:45:45 pm »
go gnif!
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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2013, 10:49:49 pm »
...It's back up and running now thanks to gnif  :-+  :clap:

The Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation helped you with this?  ???
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2013, 11:24:05 pm »
mandatory eye roll 'linux'  tssss...
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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2013, 11:34:31 pm »
Glad its running, i almost thought its some black magic happening.
Corrupted mysql happens all the time when you reboot any machine runing mysql - had it many times on linux servers and once on windoze so OS is not a problem.
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2013, 11:47:07 pm »
os has no problem, application has problem  ;D
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2013, 11:54:39 pm »
mandatory eye roll 'linux'  tssss...
Someone's feeling trollish  >:D
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2013, 12:13:07 am »
mandatory eye roll 'linux'  tssss...

Nice one.

:-+
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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2013, 12:33:25 am »
Glad it is up.
 :-+

Glad to see it is back up...
I come here when things are slow over on QRZ (The Zed).

Hi Sue, good to see you

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2013, 02:48:44 am »
Heh, I thought it seemed a bit quiet when I pulled up the unread posts, having not been around all day...
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2013, 02:58:10 am »
Wondered why I got so much done today...

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2013, 03:28:08 am »
mandatory eye roll 'linux'  tssss...
Unlike the monthly scheduled Windows reboot you mean. Can be mighty inconvenient on that second Tuesday when all the IIS servers do a simultaneous reboot. Linux server that does the real work stays up for months until you turn it off because the fans need cleaning or the hardware fails.
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2013, 03:38:16 am »
mandatory eye roll 'linux'  tssss...
Unlike the monthly scheduled Windows reboot you mean. Can be mighty inconvenient on that second Tuesday when all the IIS servers do a simultaneous reboot. Linux server that does the real work stays up for months until you turn it off because the fans need cleaning or the hardware fails.

I have a Linux cluster that's been up continuously for more than four years.  The one Windows VM running on it can't last a month without a reboot.

Odds are probably very good the outage was caused by something hardware-related causing the reboot and the database being caught by the reboot. 

Linux itself is stable... so stable that NASA relies on it almost exclusively, and the ISS is running nothing but Linux today; before the Shuttles stopped going there, they pulled all of the Windows machines off. 
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2013, 03:41:54 am »
Linux server that does the real work stays up for months.

I've got many Linux servers with uptimes > 4 years.  Hardware rotation is the only thing keeping longer durations.

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2013, 05:57:14 am »
The server hard rebooted 9 hours ago and corrupted some database tables in the process.

Curse of myisam tables (corrupted tables when reboot happens without proper mysql shutdown). Switch to innodb if possible and that problem will be gone.

ps. and buy/setup some nagios monitoring service to notify early about the problems ;-)
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2013, 07:34:36 am »
Curse of myisam tables (corrupted tables when reboot happens without proper mysql shutdown). Switch to innodb if possible and that problem will be gone.


If anyone still uses myisam in this day and age, they deserve what they get.  I am pretty sure Dave must be using innodb, although the corrupted table symptoms sound suspiciously like myisam... 
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2013, 09:06:29 am »
Youtube's revenge for the rant [:conspiracyemoticonhere:]
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2013, 09:11:52 am »
Youtube's revenge for the rant [:conspiracyemoticonhere:]


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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2013, 11:08:38 am »
The server hard rebooted 9 hours ago and corrupted some database tables in the process. Not sure yet what caused the hard reboot.
I used to work with a guy who when called by the operators that a system was down would instantly ask "Is there an engineer loose in the computer room with a screwdriver?" sometimes he'd substitute "two fingers up his nose".  Actually I think it was mostly the other way around.

I worked at a company where our nemesis turned out to be a cleaner with a rotary floor polisher. She was very conscientious and used to run the edges of the machine right under the back of the rack cabinets. Any insecure cables got flicked straight out of the equipment. Of course it was never anything critical with proper cable management, so the outage typically wasn't discovered until she was long gone.

 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2013, 04:40:54 pm »
Glad it is up.
 :-+

Glad to see it is back up...
I come here when things are slow over on QRZ (The Zed).

Hi Sue, good to see you
Good to see Y'all too.... :)
Sue AF6LJ
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2013, 05:24:19 pm »
I worked at a company where our nemesis turned out to be a cleaner with a rotary floor polisher. She was very conscientious and used to run the edges of the machine right under the back of the rack cabinets. Any insecure cables got flicked straight out of the equipment. Of course it was never anything critical with proper cable management, so the outage typically wasn't discovered until she was long gone.

No outages because the cleaners unplugged a server to plug in the vacuum or buffer?  That's another common one.

I was rather obsessive about keeping all the cables in my rack(s) neat and tidy.  Never enjoyed working on a rack that didn't have proper cable management.  In those cases, I used a lot of one-wrap velcro ties to hack my own cable management together.
 

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Re: Forum Outage
« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2013, 05:33:39 pm »
Had the guys who came in to clean a carpet do that, despite the red colour of the socket, the label on it, the fact they had to use a hammer to put the plug into the polarised socket ( breaking it in the process), and the regular AC power socket right next to it. Not good for the UPS to get an extra 20A load from the carpet cleaner, it tripped out and all the computers including the server went dead. The trip probably was the cause for the one power supply in the server dying a week later. At least I am good at cold starting the network...... Good thing as well I use only 5A breakers on all the UPS feeds, as they trip showing where to look for who plugged something in.
 


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