[Rack] so can i work on minotaur

Jake jake at spaz.org
Wed Feb 6 02:44:49 UTC 2013


i put in a USB disk last night and it couldn't even see it, the only way i 
was able to rescue stuff was by catting it to the screen and copy and 
paste.  maybe you know a better way but i wasn't finding anything.

nc ftp scp uuencode nothing worked.

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:

> Sounds like a good plan.
>
> -ben
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Jake wrote:
>
>> i can't even figure out what size the drives are because i can't even look 
>> at the partition table.
>> 
>> I have to wonder if things would be any different if i unplugged the hard 
>> drive right now.
>> 
>> i can't run scp so i'm going to plug in a usb stick and try to back things 
>> up.  they might only exist in RAM for all i know.
>> 
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>> I can wait but i don't know if i'll be here tomorrow.  I guess i 
>>>> shouldn't
>>>> take it down if i dont have a plan to bring it back up.
>>>> 
>>>> will you do it without me or should i just dd the drive to something 
>>>> myself?
>>> 
>>> I don't think there's anything on there that we couldn't afford to
>>> lose (other than the gate codes list!).
>>> 
>>> Maybe grab a copy of /etc (and wherever the codes are being pulled
>>> from), and deploy onto a new disk?
>>> 
>>> dd is crude, and will only work well if the drive or partitions are
>>> the same size.
>>> 
>>> --j
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'd love to give you a hand.  I have some of the tools on me for doing
>>>>> this work, I just didn't have time to goto NB on the weekend.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Want to wait till Tuesday?  I'm also trying to dig up an SSD to replace
>>>>> that drive.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -ben
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Jake wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So it's monday night and i'm at noisebridge.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would like to take down the drive that is failing and try to copy it
>>>>>> onto another drive, so unless anyone objects, i will do this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I know it will fuck up things but i don't see another way, do you?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> maybe someone can help put the pieces back together if it doesn't work
>>>>>> after i'm done with the dd?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -jake
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote: I can try and reboot it, 
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> I don't have faith that it will restart.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Unfortunately, I can't tell what mounts sdb backs:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> root at minotaur:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay
>>>>>> Bus error
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, it hosts /boot, so... that's a no good:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> root at minotaur:/etc/lvm# mount | grep sdb
>>>>>> /dev/sdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyone have some spare SSDs?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --j
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Shit...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [819573.242701] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
>>>>>>> [819573.242716] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET
>>>>>>> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> [819573.242732] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 01 67 f9 80 00 
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 20 00
>>>>>>> [819573.242765] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 23591296
>>>>>>> [819573.246916] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
>>>>>>> [819573.246944] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET
>>>>>>> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> [819573.246966] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 01 67 f9 80 00 
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 08 00
>>>>>>> [819573.247012] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 23591296
>>>>>>> [819573.251895] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
>>>>>>> [819573.251912] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET
>>>>>>> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> [819573.251933] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 01 67 f9 80 00 
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 08 00
>>>>>>> [819573.251984] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 23591296
>>>>>>> [819592.830436] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
>>>>>>> [819592.830450] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET
>>>>>>> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> [819592.830465] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 01 8b ba d0 00 
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 08 00
>>>>>>> [819592.830498] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 25934544
>>>>>>> [819592.835028] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
>>>>>>> [819592.835039] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET
>>>>>>> driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
>>>>>>> [819592.835051] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 01 8b ba d0 00 
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 08 00
>>>>>>> [819592.835078] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 25934544
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And... Minotaur's disk dies.
>>>>>>> I think we're way overloading this box that was intended as an
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> out-of-band
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> access host. :p
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --j
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> *** System restart required ***
>>>>>>>> Last login: Thu Jan 31 22:56:43 2013 from awesome.local
>>>>>>>> jake at minotaur:~$ touch sdfkj
>>>>>>>> touch: cannot touch `sdfkj': Read-only file system
>>>>>>>> jake at minotaur:~$ mount
>>>>>>>> /dev/mapper/minotaur-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
>>>>>>>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>>>>>>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>>>>>>>> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
>>>>>>>> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
>>>>>>>> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
>>>>>>>> udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
>>>>>>>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=**0620)
>>>>>>>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,**mode=0755)
>>>>>>>> none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=**5242880)
>>>>>>>> none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>>>>>>>> /dev/sdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
>>>>>>>> /dev/mapper/minotaur-home on /home type ext4 (rw)
>>>>>>>> rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>>>>>>>> nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> mount: warning: /etc/mtab is not writable (e.g. read-only 
>>>>>>>> filesystem).
>>>>>>>>        It's possible that information reported by mount(8) is not
>>>>>>>>        up to date. For actual information about system mount points
>>>>>>>>        check the /proc/mounts file.
>>>>>>>> 
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