Admin logs.

log/tilde-club.org

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+#+TITLE: Server Log: tilde.club
+
+* Launch <2014-10-01 Wed>
+- I think this was the day it launched. I honestly can't remember.
+
+* Crash <2014-10-04 Sat>
+** Notes
+- Informed of problem via Twitter.
+- [Redacted] user wrote to say:
+
+#+BEGIN_BLOCKQUOTE
+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...
+
+Sorrrryryryhuetnaouemkb
+
+I'm going to put myself in an infinite loop of timeout
+
+(IF I'm allowed back on, which would be understood if I weren't)
+#+END BLOCKQUOTE
+
+** DONE Resolution
+- Rebooted server
+- Renamed bad .bashrc so that it would not execute when user logged in
+
+
+* Backup <2014-10-04 Sat>
+- Backed up =/var=, =/etc=, and =/home=.
+- Saved to Paul Ford's home computer.
+
+
+* Server Crash <2014-10-07 Tue>
+** Notes
+- System log on AWS was last updated on Saturday, 10/4--at time of last bootup.
+
+
+** TODO Resolution
+
+1) Rebooted the Server
+   - This did not work and system log did not clear out or update.
+   - 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.
+   - FAILED.
+
+2) Made a snapshot of the EBS volume attached to tilde.club
+   - Launched a new instance based on that EBS
+   - Kernel panic; see [[./server-logs/2014-10-07.txt]]
+   - I'm not sure if this is me or the disk, though.
+   - I'm getting
+     - =Using IPI No-Shortcut mode=
+     - =XENBUS: Timeout connecting to devices!=
+     - =md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.=
+     - =md: autorun ...=
+     - =md: ... autorun DONE.=
+     - =Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)=
+
+3) Tried to look at the volume
+   - Made a new instance
+   - Made a new volume based on the snapshot
+   - Tried to mount it
+   - The volume identifies as GRUB
+   - It's not a single volume, then, it's a filesystem with multiple volumes
+   - I'm not sure how to attach whole filesystems as EBS volumes