Re: [bitfolk] Server "elephant" has crashed a few times, on…

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Server "elephant" has crashed a few times, ongoing problems

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:19:21AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:22:32AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > It is now crashing every time while trying to boot VPSes. I
> > suspected bug in last round of XSA patches so reverted to previous
> > hypervisor, but problem persists. We had an issue with "elephant"
> > not so long ago so it might be hardware fault *though no logs to
> > back this up).
> >
> > Still investigating, sorry.
>
> At the moment its kernel is crashing some way towards the end of
> starting up all VMs. I'm trying to isolate the issue to one
> particular VM because if a guest can crash the host then it's a bug
> in the hypervisor and just moving guests around won't solve the
> problem.
>
> It would be helpful if people did not keep logging in and restarting
> their VPSes while I am doing this. It's not going to help you much
> as the host is almost certainly going to crash or be rebooted soon.
> Seems I need to toggle off the ability for people to log in, or at
> least to start their guests, while under maintenance.


I resemble that remark. Sorry.

My mail runs through the machine, though, so I had to boot it to
read this message. :)

Thanks for the info,
Hugo.

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