nate_1979 9 #1 January 25, 2006 DAMNIT!!!!!! I come home from work to find my linux box, which had over 1 1/2 YEARS UPTIME WITHOUT A REBOOT rebooted! I look around the house, doesnt even look like the power went out... Seems that my trusty APC UPS just cycled a few times (there are 3 attempted boots before it finally got to complete it in the logs, looks like in boot sequence and then another "scorpion syslogd 1.4.1: restart" entry and it does it all again.. ) ... I feel lucky that all those half assed boots didnt fuck something up (like the software RAID running on it) ... Not even any of the typical log entries saying that UPS is running on battery... edited to add: yes, I'm kinda a geek and this stuff is serious to me! FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #2 January 25, 2006 Quoteyes, I'm kinda a geek and this stuff is serious to me! In the same way that water is kinda wet. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisamariewillbe 1 #3 January 25, 2006 Hi pot Id like to introduce you to kettle....think apperal choice misterSudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #4 January 25, 2006 Glad that you all can laugh and joke over this serious matter... I feel as though, ... hell, I dont know how I feel other than STILL SICK FOR A FUCKING WEEK AND A HALF... This was just like a kick in the nuts on top of that.! FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisamariewillbe 1 #5 January 25, 2006 okay if you are going to whine Ill refer to Walts post Mr Smarty Pants... Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
windcatcher 0 #6 January 25, 2006 Pottymouth!!! Hey, are you feeling better yet? Mother to the cutest little thing in the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #7 January 25, 2006 QuoteHi pot Id like to introduce you to kettle....think apperal choice mister Well at least you didn't say that he's kind of a nerd like I'm kind of old! Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisamariewillbe 1 #8 January 25, 2006 Quotekind of old Whats this "kind of" in which you speak?Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #9 January 25, 2006 QuotePottymouth!!! Hey, are you feeling better yet? DOH! A little better, but still feel like hammered dog shit. FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tdog 0 #10 January 26, 2006 Quote Seems that my trusty APC UPS just cycled a few times (there are 3 attempted boots before it finally got to complete it in the logs, looks like in boot sequence and then another "scorpion syslogd 1.4.1: restart" entry and it does it all again.. ) ... I feel lucky that all those half assed boots didnt fuck something up (like the software RAID running on it) ... I came home one day to my music server (yes I am a geek too) being turned on and off again, every 5 seconds, by the APC UPS... The very battery/power conditioner designed to SAVE the computer - KILLED it... The music was stored redundantly - but the OS was trashed and I opted to replace the hard drives - after they had thousands of power downs in one day... I feel your pain man. Geeks unite. Well, sort of... P.S. If I told you one of my windows servers running our office voicemail has 1.5 years of uptime - you probably would feel even worse, huh - and the music server at my office is going on 2 years running windows... Sorry to rub it in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stoneycase 0 #11 January 26, 2006 APC sucks, always has. Powerware. I run a 9125 at home. Double online conversion :)Does whisky count as beer? - Homer There's no justice like angry mob justice. - Skinner Be careful. There's a limited future in low pulls - JohnMitchell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #12 January 26, 2006 [Nate gives tdog the finger] . . . . [/Nate gives tdog the finger] Yea, well, I took the battery out of the UPS and it was melting It's got new battery now, hopefully it's not the actual UPS.... but seriously, I almost cried. I even moved that server once with the UPS hooked up! FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #13 January 26, 2006 QuoteQuotekind of old Whats this "kind of" in which you speak? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #14 January 26, 2006 Dude - a linux OS reboot after only a year and a half? What are you doing to that thing?? I swear I can throw one of those things out of a second story window and it'll still keep going. I have redhat on one of my laptops now that I use for all my development work. Don't have to worry about the thing shutting down in the middle of important coding. Personally, I think Debian is a bit more stable, but it's easier to get tech info for Redhat.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #15 January 26, 2006 it wasnt the boxes fault!!! I run Slackware, always have, always probably will.. I dont need no stinkin config utilities! That box doesnt even have X on it FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #16 January 26, 2006 I feel your pain, horror and degradation. Still, it wouldn't have happened if you had run Debian HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #17 January 26, 2006 QuoteI feel your pain, horror and degradation. Still, it wouldn't have happened if you had run Debian That's just below the belt man... below the belt... FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #18 January 26, 2006 QuoteQuoteI feel your pain, horror and degradation. Still, it wouldn't have happened if you had run Debian That's just below the belt man... below the belt... Does it help if I say that my laptop runs Mandrake? HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #19 January 26, 2006 I cant believe you would admit that. Dude, seriously. It barely deserves the respect to be called linux. FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #20 January 26, 2006 QuoteI cant believe you would admit that. Dude, seriously. It barely deserves the respect to be called linux. I know, but ACPI works. HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mdrejhon 8 #21 January 26, 2006 QuoteDAMNIT!!!!!!I had a 400+ day uptime on my Linux box without a UPS, and the only reason I didn't exceed that was because I had to move between two apartments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattjw916 2 #22 January 26, 2006 underachievers... We had a VAX-VMS machine at a customer site that had been up for over 10 years. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDaemon 0 #23 January 26, 2006 Nice man :-) That's really cool hear. My record uptimes are in excess of three years (jesus, I'm becoming someone who brags about 'uptime' in terms of how long my computers stay up. You know you need help (and a life) when...) They run FreeBSD in a colocation facility in Portland. And they were backed by APC UPSes... ;-)find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer; Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bert_man 0 #24 January 26, 2006 last year i had my windows box (aka my desktop) running for about 6 months. Then I randomly heard a loud bang (over some really loud music) and after some inspection found that my power supply had essentially exploded. This was, of course, 30 minutes before an important deadline and the client was less than amused... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
btucker 0 #25 January 26, 2006 Days since accident: 1 Cold be worse. Walking to work: I saw _all_ the internet kiosk machines doing windows "scan disk" while a cleaner happly vacumed away. At my last work, I had 999days of uptime on a solaris box at work. I had to reboot it just because I could. Blue Dreams Benno Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
