On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:39, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: > On 02/14/2011 10:09 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 07:13, Stefan Kaltenbrunner >> <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: >>> On 02/14/2011 01:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>>> >>>> Magnus Hagander<mag...@hagander.net> writes: >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, one of the worst-case scenarios appears to have >>>>> happened - a machine did not come back up after a reboot. >>>>> ... >>>>> We'll get back to you with more information as soon as we have it. >>>> >>>> I didn't see any followup to this? >>> >>> yeah - the hosting company managed to reboot the box for us which brought it >>> back to life in the middle of the night (with both magnus and me asleep). >> >> Indeed. But the good news is that once it came back up, the VM with >> the git server started ok :-) >> >> >>>> gitmaster seems to be responding as of now, is it safe to push? >>> >>> yes it is - however we will need to schedule another maintenance window soon >>> to finish the stuff we actually wanted to do. >> >> So, after some discussion with Stefan, we (well, I guess I) decided we >> should just go ahead and declare the maintenance window not closed >> yet, and finish off the upgrade right now :-) Given that the majority >> of our commits don't happen now, we'll hopefully have it done by the >> time the US folks wake up again. >> >> So, maintenance window again, starting now, and we'll let you know as >> soon as we're done. And we're definitely hoping for the machine to >> come back up properly this time :-) > > and it did not... We are trying to figure out what the actual problem > here really is because it seems to boot just fine when powercycled just > not with a software initiated reboot. > We will notify once we have more information...
Status update on this - Stefan is currently working with the datacenter people on getting this fixed (they are now available on-site), since we are now having an actual issue with the machine (GRUB failure on boot) rather than just a failure to shut down. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
