gpg: Signature made Sat Mar 8 01:15:55 2008 UTC using DSA key ID BF15490B
gpg: Good signature from "Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>"
gpg: aka "Andrew James Smith <andy@strugglers.net>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (UKUUG) <andy.smith@ukuug.org>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (BitFolk Ltd.) <andy@bitfolk.com>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Linux User Groups UK) <andy@lug.org.uk>"
gpg: aka "Andy Smith (Cernio Technology Cooperative) <andy.smith@cernio.com>"
Hi folks,
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:58:31PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:58:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Therefore there will be a scheduled shutdown at 00:00 GMT Saturday
> > 8th March (i.e. Friday night, UK time) for the switchover to take
> > place. We hope that the switch will be done within half an hour,
> > but the window extends until 2am just in case.
>
> Thinking about it some more, I better actually start at 23:50 to
> ensure that it's shut down before the power goes off at 00:05.
> Suspending all the Xen domains to disk can take a while..
This went pretty much to plan. Almost everyone was back up and
running by 00:22.
One VPS's kernel OOPSed on restore, so had to be rebooted. This is
an Ubuntu Xen kernel though which I have found unstable before, so I
recommend Ubuntu people use the Debian Xen kernel.
Due to a misconfiguration on my part one other VPS ended up running
simultaneously on both corona and kwak, with its IP flip-flopping
between. I noticed and sorted it out by 00:50; I will be contacting
them off list.
Those on corona / kwak will want to check their clocks / ntpds as
suspend/restore tends to make them go a little crazy. Stopping ntpd
(if it didn't die), ntpdate then startig ntpd again will fix it.
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
Andy
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