2012/2/1 César Gómez Martín <[email protected]>: > 2012/2/1 Christian PERRIER <[email protected]>: >> Quoting Christian PERRIER ([email protected]): >>> Quoting César Gómez Martín ([email protected]): >>> >>> > Bad news! >>> > >>> > The system administrator has not been able to fix Churro. "Some of the >>> > services are not working anymore", that's what he told me. :(( >>> > >>> > He tried to reboot it several times with no luck. What should I do?. >>> >>> Well, with only this information I have no idea. >>> >>> What services? What is displayed on screen? I actually feel like I'm >>> talking to one of my Windows users, sorry to say this..:-( >>> >> >> >> >> Sorry, César, that may have sounded a bit harsh, but it was late >> yesterday...:-) >> >> I thought about all this all night long and Im in trouble coming with >> a good answer. >> >> As long as we can't ssh into the machine, we're in much trouble. >> >> What would be nice is to know whether someone can login locally and >> check why incoming ssh isn't working (maybe failure in DNS >> resolution?). >> >> What would be nice also is to know whether the machine at least >> bootscompletely up to a "login:" prompt. I can hand out my own >> account/password if needed, so that someone you trust can sudo on the >> machine (I don't have anythign sensitive on it). >> >> The alternative might be bringing back the machine at a place where >> *you* could help out debugging things and put the machine back online >> (even with a reduced bandwidth) and try restoring an incoming SSH >> access. >> >> That would allowconsidering an emergency transfer to the virtual >> machine that is ready to become i18n.debian.org >> >> It would also help if Felipe could tell us whether he feels like >> i18n.debian.org is ready enough to temporarily host i18n.debian.net >> (which means not beign under DSA control yet). >> >> In short, it would help if I wasn't feeling alone trying to restore >> things back, with only your help, César (thanks again for it) while >> you're 150kmaway from the machine. >> >> /me, slightly depressed by the situation. > > Don't worry, I understand your concerns. I am also frustrated because > of not being able to help more from here... :(
Churro is working again, the guy opened the box and apparently one of the HD cables was not properly plugged. Let's see if it works for at least 6 years more... :)) He told me that, despite he is busy he is happy to help Debian. Best regards, César. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGUmGN6HgF-6Seo7nDAhfcs=0qosrbh+bb3x5qtzkry6_uk...@mail.gmail.com

