Sorry about the downtime today; everything _should_ now be back up and running.
On first look this seems to be similar to the crashes we've gotten on the server all too frequently since we acquired it: one of the disks froze up and wouldn't respond anymore until the machine was rebooted -- which was complicated by the machine not being willing to reboot until it had cleanly unmounted the disks, which it couldn't do because it had to wait until the disk responded...
Anyway, the parts for upgrades should be arriving over the next few days and the machine can be rebuilt early next week. If the problem is related to the motherboard, that should resolve it once and for all.
If it's a problem inherent to the disks, well, that won't help, but it'll reboot faster! ;) And we'll have a better idea where the problem lays.
Since it was the secondary disk that halted this time, not the primary, we did get some info in the logs. If anyone out there is familiar with decoding SCSI failures on Linux, I posted a log extract on wikitech-l: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-October/006314.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:50:01PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Sorry about the downtime today; everything _should_ now be back up and running.
Um, the wikimedia's first press release completely disappeared from the hungarian wikipedia, along with its history. :-@
Hope it's not lost because... uh...
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:10:03AM +0200, Peter Gervai wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:50:01PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Sorry about the downtime today; everything _should_ now be back up and running.
Um, the wikimedia's first press release completely disappeared from the hungarian wikipedia, along with its history. :-@
Oh, I see, the whole Wikipédia: namespace is screwed. Did you upgrade the sw, Brion? ;-)
Peter
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:13, Peter Gervai wrote:
OnUm, the wikimedia's first press release completely disappeared from the
hungarian wikipedia, along with its history. :-@
Oh, I see, the whole Wikipédia: namespace is screwed. Did you upgrade the sw, Brion? ;-)
D'oh! Lemme downgrade that bit again until that's fixed.
-- brion
Umm...it's been giving me an intermittent "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" error.
Vancouverguy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com To: wikipedia-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Server back up after partial crash
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:13, Peter Gervai wrote:
OnUm, the wikimedia's first press release completely disappeared from the
hungarian wikipedia, along with its history. :-@
Oh, I see, the whole Wikipédia: namespace is screwed. Did you upgrade the sw, Brion? ;-)
D'oh! Lemme downgrade that bit again until that's fixed.
-- brion
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On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:22, blairr wrote:
Umm...it's been giving me an intermittent "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" error.
You're using the wiki too much, it's telling you to lay off.
Take your time! _Read_ the pages between clicks.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:21:37PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:13, Peter Gervai wrote:
OnUm, the wikimedia's first press release completely disappeared from the
hungarian wikipedia, along with its history. :-@
Oh, I see, the whole Wikipédia: namespace is screwed. Did you upgrade the sw, Brion? ;-)
D'oh! Lemme downgrade that bit again until that's fixed.
Well if you think every possible thing finished sucking today then it's time to realise that there's plenty further opportunity to find something new that sucks. :-))
Btw I believe it's okay to freeze Wikipédia: and Wikipedia: namespaces on HU for 5 minutes and run a simple conversion on the db to change the namespace numbers. (Less than 200 articles, lightweight.) You're pretty free to make all Wikipedia: (without accent) entries to either disappear or transmutate to, say, Wikimonster:. Probably 2 simple SQL commands would do the job (without checking, so I could be wrong). Then we could forget this messup.
g.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:03, Peter Gervai wrote:
Well if you think every possible thing finished sucking today then it's time to realise that there's plenty further opportunity to find something new that sucks. :-))
Yay! :P
Btw I believe it's okay to freeze Wikipédia: and Wikipedia: namespaces on HU for 5 minutes and run a simple conversion on the db to change the namespace numbers. (Less than 200 articles, lightweight.) You're pretty free to make all Wikipedia: (without accent) entries to either disappear or transmutate to, say, Wikimonster:. Probably 2 simple SQL commands would do the job (without checking, so I could be wrong). Then we could forget this messup.
I think I've got them sorted out now; the ex-Wikipedia: pages have now been either moved into Wikipédia: space or deleted (for mere redirects).
The link tables may be all screwed up, so if you see weird things in whatlinkshere etc, well, that's how things are until we've got a better way to straighten those out.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:27:06PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
I think I've got them sorted out now; the ex-Wikipedia: pages have now been either moved into Wikipédia: space or deleted (for mere redirects).
Neat! Thanks. Seems to work now.
The link tables may be all screwed up, so if you see weird things in whatlinkshere etc, well, that's how things are until we've got a better way to straighten those out.
Okay, I won't remove it from your TODO list then. ;->
thanks, grin
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