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20040714: bigbird syslog logging and file system repair (cont.)



>From: Gerry Creager n5jxs <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords:  200406220437.i5M4beWb016431 LDM RAID fsck

Gerry,

>I'm in the hotel room in DC, running FSCK again.  I'll keep going for at 
>least another hour, and then restart in the morning.  At some point, 
>this'll get fixed.
>
>I'm upsizing the UPS to an APC2200 series.   That should give us more 
>than enough backup power to do an orderly shutdown next time.  The deal 
>for the UPS was cut at dinner tonight.

Sorry that I wasn't able to run fsck manually til its completion.  I
have been involved in the CALMet workshop here at UCAR all week.

Got to run again...

Tom

>Unidata Support wrote:
>>>From: Gerry Creager n5jxs <address@hidden>
>>>Organization: TAMU
>>>Keywords:  200406220437.i5M4beWb016431 LDM RAID fsck
>> 
>> 
>> Gerry,
>> 
>> 
>>>Don't know about syslogd, as I didn't stop it.
>> 
>> 
>> It was weird.  Also weird was /dev/md0 disappearing unexpectedly.
>> I remounted it and it worked, but I still saw lots of errors in
>> /var/log/messages.
>> 
>> 
>>>I was travelling for
>>>abou 2 hours and had a 4-hr span in Clarksville TN yesterday where fsck
>>>was running repetetively.  It had not completed when I drove out from
>>>coverage w/ wireless.  'fsck -a /dev/md0' would have had to be run at
>>>least 6 times (I sis it once, and was on interation 5 of 'fsck
>>>/dev/mdo'[interactive]) when we lost connectivity.
>>>
>>>I saw the actions you'd taken and appreciate them.
>> 
>> 
>> I tried running 'fsck -p /dev/md0', but it failed in the middle telling
>> me to run fsck by hand.  I have been doing this for the past two
>> hours, and it is still going.  I will most likely have to go to bed before
>> it finishes, so I may have to start over again tomorrow.
>> 
>> 
>>>We're still driving.  Currently, connectivity isn't good, but should
>>>improve when we hit Memphis.
>> 
>> 
>> No worries.
>> 
>> 
>>>The worst way to ruin a vacation... outside of the cold I got while at
>>>the inlaws, whom I really do like... is having to get a proposal in3
>>>days after you're officially on vacation, and no one had responded until
>>>the first driving day.  I got several calls on the cellphone starting
>>>with, "Hey, when are you leaving?  I dodn't want to get this to you too
>>>early..."
>> 
>> 
>> Man...
>> 
>> 
>>>If you'd run fsck -p, that'd help.  It's still spotty.
>> 
>> 
>> It is still running, but it is almost time for bed -- meeting first
>> thing tomorrow morning.
>> 
>> Later...
>> 
>> Tom
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>From address@hidden  Thu Jul 15 19:21:01 2004

Not a problem.  I diddled a little perl script to emulate the 'yes' 
command and left it running all day while I was at my meeting.

It's mounted and ldm is running again.

I'll be checking for errors.  Looks good so far.

From Sodom on the Potomac,
TTFN, gerry