[Rack] so can i work on minotaur

Tue Feb 5 04:43:37 UTC 2013

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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