Hi,

combinat.math.washington.edu is now fixed.  For some mysterious
reasons the ufw firewall was active, with evidently *no* rules, and it
was blocking most everything.   I don't know 100% for certain why this
happened; however, I've just done:

  apt-get remove unattended-upgrades ufw

so it is unlikely to happen again.

Note that there was no downtime or interruption of anybody's jobs, and
this was not caused by over-use. (This is the only problem we have
ever had so far with combinat, by the way!)

root@combinat:/home/wstein# uptime
 08:55:45 up 18 days, 12:58,  4 users,  load average: 37.00, 37.01, 37.07

I will be scheduling some (about 2 minutes -- just the time to reboot
once) of downtime for combinat, since I have to reset the UPS it is
connected to, in order to debug a UPS battery issue.   That will
probably be in about a week, and there will be an announcement.

William

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:52 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> see
>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sagemath-users/9gOocpRm4KE/discussion
>
> My current hypothesis is that Ubuntu automatic security updates (or
> something else stupid) somehow activated some sort of overly aggressive
> firewall rules, since I ran into the same problem on four other servers I
> have running ubuntu with automatic security updates (I ink).  Anyway, the
> machines are now way too secure!    I'll find out soon enough though (I
> should have this fixed in about two hours).
>
> If you are good at using Dell iDrac remote management with Linux, please
> email me...
>
>
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:15:47 UTC+8, fhivert wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi there,
>>>
>>> The combinat machine seems to ping but doesn't answer neither to the web,
>>> nor
>>> to ssh. Can a local guy investigate and maybe relaunch it ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Florent
>>
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