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P99AS9 I don't get the Obama and Osama connection. What gives?
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One of Obama's friends (William Ayers) has bombed the pentagon, and so has many of Osama Bin Laden's friends (terrorists in Al-Qaeda).
 
Man, I really wish TFL could get fixed for good....I work nights and I'm actually having to do a little work to get myself busy instead of playing around on here. :o
 
The disk/raid driver was getting stuck, and the kernel wasn't rebooting from the subsequent soft lockup like it was supposed to.

After last weekend's fiasco we had a new linux kernel ready, so we're on 2.6.28 now.

I've also converted 2 of the 3 filesystems that were xfs over to ext3 (the database/web/root directories have always been ext3, but a few non-critical directories were xfs to speed things up). There's a recent xfs bug report I'm worried might have been the cause of these lockups.
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Next time just give it a good whack right at the epicenter of the fulcrum, always works for me.:D
 
Xfs apparently wasn't the problem. The remaining suspects include the kernel software raid driver, lvm2, and the kernel's softlockup detection/reboot code itself. If the kernel incorrectly detects a softlockup and tries to reboot and fails (seems unlikely), that could also explain the symptoms.

Second hand reports from the colo staff were that, a week ago Sunday, sysrq+t indicated the system was stuck in software raid code. However, neither Friday nor today have I been able to get sysrq hotkeys to work after the crashes. Just a message about a detected softlockup, and then one saying it's rebooting in 6 seconds... which it obviously didn't.

For now I've disabled the kernel panic and reboot after a softlockup. Since it wasn't successfully rebooting anyway, there's no sense in having that turned on.

The attachment upload issues and usercp problems were due to bad temporary directory permissions after switching those temp directories from xfs to ext3; those permissions are both fixed.

peetzakilla said:
FiringLine needs to move to Mac!
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FreeBSD is a possibility. It's a trade off between the prospect of possible future downtime due to crashes and forced immediate downtime to switch OSes.
 
Cripes,sorry for the new thread Bud.

Thanks for the relink here.

Glad to see the forum is still alive.

These days you never know with other gun forums getting whacked and all.
 
I've also converted 2 of the 3 filesystems that were xfs over to ext3 (the database/web/root directories have always been ext3, but a few non-critical directories were xfs to speed things up). There's a recent xfs bug report I'm worried might have been the cause of these lockups.
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Uhh...who's in the what now??? :confused:
 
To the Staff at TFl. I live in South Carolina and we had our first snow of the year. Everything in town has shut down. So, I am hopeing like heck that TFL doesn't go down today! If we get more than a 1/2 inch of snow around here people go Nucking Futs!!

The staff seems to have worked out the bugs...knock on wood!

Please keep us rolling!!
 
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