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< h1 class = "title" > Server Log: tilde.club< / h1 >
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< h2 > Table of Contents< / h2 >
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< li > < a href = "#sec-1" > 1. Launch < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-01 Wed> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "#sec-2" > 2. Crash < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-04 Sat> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / a >
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< li > < a href = "#sec-2-1" > 2.1. Notes< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "#sec-2-2" > 2.2. < span class = "done DONE" > DONE< / span > Resolution< / a > < / li >
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< li > < a href = "#sec-3" > 3. Backup < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-04 Sat> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "#sec-4" > 4. Server Crash < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-07 Tue> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / a >
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< li > < a href = "#sec-4-2" > 4.2. < span class = "todo TODO" > TODO< / span > Resolution< / a > < / li >
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The org-mode parser on github doesn't understand lists, sadly. So a lot
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also in this directory.
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< li > I think this was the day it launched. I honestly can't remember.
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< li > Informed of problem via Twitter.
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< li > [Redacted] user wrote to say:
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#+BEGIN< sub > BLOCKQUOTE< / sub >
I put "bash" in my .bashrc (like the command, on a line). This seems incredibly stupid in retrospect but I was trying to get my shell to load my aliases and if I ran `bash` they did, so…
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Sorrrryryryhuetnaouemkb
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I'm going to put myself in an infinite loop of timeout
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(IF I'm allowed back on, which would be understood if I weren't)
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< li > Rebooted server
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< li > Renamed bad .bashrc so that it would not execute when user logged in
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< h2 id = "sec-3" > < span class = "section-number-2" > 3< / span > Backup < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-04 Sat> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / h2 >
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< li > Backed up < code > /var< / code > , < code > /etc< / code > , and < code > /home< / code > .
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< li > Saved to Paul Ford's home computer.
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< h2 id = "sec-4" > < span class = "section-number-2" > 4< / span > Server Crash < span class = "timestamp-wrapper" > < span class = "timestamp" > < 2014-10-07 Tue> < / span > < / span >       < span class = "tag" > < span class = "PaulFord" > PaulFord< / span > < / span > < / h2 >
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< h3 id = "sec-4-1" > < span class = "section-number-3" > 4.1< / span > Notes< / h3 >
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< li > System log on AWS was last updated on Saturday, 10/4– at time of last bootup.
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< h3 id = "sec-4-2" > < span class = "section-number-3" > 4.2< / span > < span class = "todo TODO" > TODO< / span > Resolution< / h3 >
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< li > Rebooted the Server
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< li > This did not work and system log did not clear out or update.
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< li > While this was going on I received an email from Amazon letting me
know that the server would be retired on October 21st. This appears
to be unrelated to this current issue but definitely confused me.
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< li > FAILED.
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< li > Made a snapshot of the EBS volume attached to tilde.club
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< li > Launched a new instance based on that EBS
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< li > Kernel panic; see < a href = "./server-logs/2014-10-07.txt" > ./server-logs/2014-10-07.txt< / a >
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< li > I'm not sure if this is me or the disk, though.
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< li > I'm getting
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< li > < code > Using IPI No-Shortcut mode< / code >
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< li > < code > XENBUS: Timeout connecting to devices!< / code >
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< li > < code > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.< / code >
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< li > < code > md: autorun ...< / code >
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< li > < code > md: ... autorun DONE.< / code >
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< li > < code > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)< / code >
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< li > Tried to look at the volume
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< li > Made a new instance
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< li > Made a new volume based on the snapshot
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< li > Tried to mount it
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< li > The volume identifies as GRUB
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< li > It's not a single volume, then, it's a filesystem with multiple volumes
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< li > I'm not sure how to attach whole filesystems as EBS volumes
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< p class = "author" > Author: Paul Ford< / p >
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