The Linux server that runs cvs.synchro.net (and other Synchronet-related servers/services) died unexpectedly Thursday night (the 7th). I came home from work and noticed the server was "off" (the power light was off), pressing the system's power button did not power the system on but just caused the power-light blink (like the system was in a sleeping low-power mode). More presses or holds of the power button did nothing. Removing and replacing the power cable did nothing (power light stayed off now). Removing all the I/O cards and detaching the hard disk did nothing. Replacing the power supply did nothing.

So... bad motherboard.

I moved the hard disk and I/O cards to a new system and when it booted (Debian Linux 7.8), the file system check (fsck) failed with hard errors. Drive self-tests failed as well.

So... bad hard disk too.

So new hard disk, imaged with the old data (some lost) and upgraded to the latest Debian (Jessie) on a much faster motherboard/CPU/memory platform, and cvs.synchro.net lives on! vert/www/wiki/ftp etc. are dependant on the files stored on cvs.synchro.net, so everything was offline during this ~40 hour process.

Welcome back!

digital man

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Re: cvs (and vert and wiki and www and ftp) .synchro.net back online
By: Digital Man to All on Sat Jan 09 2016 08:18 pm

So new hard disk, imaged with the old data (some lost) and upgraded to the latest Debian (Jessie) on a much faster motherboard/CPU/memory platform, and cvs.synchro.net lives on! vert/www/wiki/ftp etc. are dependant on the files stored on cvs.synchro.net, so everything was offline during this ~40 hour process.

So I see now that that server (an HP workstation) had been providing these critical Synchronet and Vertrauen services for 6.8 years before replaced with a younger, faster HP workstation.

Here are the relevant details that I posted back in August in the Synchronet Programming echo:
-------------------------------------8<--------------------------------------- The server currently-known-as 'cvs.synchro.net' is an aging quad-core AMD (A10 PRO-7800B) based HP workstation with 16GB of DDR3 RAM running Debian Linux 10.9 on a SATA SSD.
[...]
I'm in the process of upgrading this system to an new Intel i7-17200 based HP workstation with 32GB of DDR4 RAM running Debian Linux 11.4 on an NVMe SSD (bought it on sale for $800 from costco.com). This should speed-up a lot of Git-related things quite a bit (e.g. CI pipeline/builds) when the upgrade is complete. -------------------------------------8<--------------------------------------- And it *did* speed up everything, not surprisingly! Enjoy...
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digital man (rob)

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