Re: sourceware seems to be down (fwd)

Re: sourceware seems to be down (fwd)

[Matthew Galgoci]

Forwarding here for the benefit of the list.

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Matthew Galgoci
System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants
Red Hat, Inc
919.754.3700 x44155

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:45:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@alum.bu.edu>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, angela@wonderslug.com, fche@redhat.com,
     jason@molenda.com
Subject: Re: sourceware seems to be down


sourceware crashed sometime during the night. It was pinging but that is about
it. I brought it back online around 10am this morning and upgraded it to the
current RHEL3 kernel, which should be more stable than anything we've previously
used.

We're in a wait and see mode now.


On Sat, 8 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:20:05PM -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> >> I can update the kernel to RHEL3.  I should still have some RHN
> >> entitlements to do that and we probably should get the system onto a
> >> path which will allow us to track errata.  I thought you thought it
> >> wasn't a good idea to use the RHEL3 kernel at one point, though.  Are
> >> things improved now?
> >
> >We're venturing into the unknown with the aacraid driver and firmware. But if
> >we are seeing the panics and lockups more frequently then we've got to do 
> >something. With a rhel3 kernel I can pester engineering for a real fix if the
> >problem persists.
> 
> It seems like the system is in a nebulous state right now.  It is responding
> to pings but not much else.
> 
> Is it just me?  I've tried from a couple of different directions but I
> can't get in.
> 
> cgf
> 

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Matthew Galgoci
System Administrator and Sr. Manager of Ruminants
Red Hat, Inc
919.754.3700 x44155