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current status of town
- To: operations@town.hall.org
- Subject: current status of town
- From: "Brad Burdick [UUcom]" <bburdick@media.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:41:43 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: mgallag@uucom.com
here is the current status of town.hall.org as i know it.
- town's power supply, fan control unit and c0t3 (internal disk) have been replaced by sun tech support.
i have changed the default boot-device in PROM to use disk2 so that i could bring town up without c0t3. we can either leave it this way, or copy the / and /usr filesystems back to the new c0t3 disk and restore the PROM boot-device to disk3.
- town is up in a crippled state at the moment. what is up is working fine, but we have NO ODS volumes available, so /web, /ftp/radio, /in, and /in/congress are off-line.
i have disabled most of the services on the host until we can get the disk problems fixed. once the disk is ok again, the following files will need to be restored/renamed (currently named unused.original_name).
/etc/rc2.d/S95SUNWmd.sync
/etc/rc3.d/S98fair /S98harvest /S98httpd /S98realaudio /S98streamworks /S98cuseeme
i also disabled /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/santa.pl to avoid the mail for santa being broken. i just added an exit 0 at the top of the script that can be removed when town is backup.
- disk /dev/dsk/c1t14d0 is toast and needs to be replaced. i believe this one bad disk is trashing all of the ODS metadevice programs currently as it effectively hangs the scsi bus. this disk is part of submirror 0 for /web.
disk layout should be the same as the other 4G quantums in the rack units.
root-56# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t13d0s2 * /dev/rdsk/c1t13d0s2 partition map * * Dimensions: * 512 bytes/sector * 118 sectors/track * 20 tracks/cylinder * 2360 sectors/cylinder * 3563 cylinders * 3561 accessible cylinders * * Flags: * 1: unmountable * 10: read-only * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 2 5 01 0 8403960 8403959 3 0 00 0 8403960 8403959 root-57#
i tried to recover the disk, but was unsuccessful.
Beginning format. The current time is Wed Nov 13 20:19:08 1996
Formatting... Format failed
Retry of formatting operation without any of the standard mode selects and ignoring disk's Grown Defects list. The disk may be able to be reformatted this way if an earlier formatting operation was interrupted by a power failure or SCSI bus reset. The Grown Defects list will be recreated by format verification and surface analysis.
Retry format without mode selects and Grown Defects list? y Formatting... Hardware error during format ASC: 0x9 ASCQ: 0x98 failed format>
WARNING: /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@3,10000/sd@e,0 (sd73): offline
WARNING: /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@3,10000/sd@e,0 (sd73): offline
WARNING: /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@3,10000/sd@e,0 (sd73): offline
WARNING: /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@3,10000/sd@e,0 (sd73): Error for command 'format' Error Level: Retryable Requested Block 0, Error Block: 0 Sense Key: Hardware Error Vendor 'QUANTUM': ASC = 0x9 (track following error), ASCQ = 0x98, FRU = 0x0
- a number of files in the root filesystem were lost and will need to be restored from the last level 0 backup. david was in DC last week, so we have recent backups at least.
the files of interest are in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo. you'll notice that the current date/time info on town is broken. this is because we lost the timezone info for EST5EDT, and others. just restoring the files in this directroy should be enough.
you should be able to replace the bad disk and bring town up completely after doing the format/partition on the drive.
the console is currently on trystero as i needed to be able to work while town was without power. suggest this be left alone for the time being. i will add a uva acct on trystero for now and give mike the passwd. you can call him to get it as needed at 703.461.1350. there is a console connection available from trystero via 'tip towncons'.
i will be out of town and unreachable from 14nov thru 17nov (evening). mike g. of uucom is available to work on this, so between david and mike town should be back on-line in a day or so. i have burned all of my UVA hours (and then some), so unless carl wants to give up some fair time, i'm done with town.
there should be no need to bring sun back in for this problem as it is not part of their supported equipment, but 800.USA.4SUN will get you to the tech support line. relevant info for town (ser# 417K0101) and mention that this is sun capital property on loan. should get a 4 hr turn-around.
-brad -- Brad Burdick bburdick@media.org Internet Multicasting Service, NPB, Suite 1155, Washington, DC 20045 Under contract from UUcom, Inc.
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