[tech] Power failure aftermath

[David Adam]

So.

At about 10:15 this morning, the power to the primary machine room circuit
failed, and every machine on it dropped off.

After some stellar work by Matt Johnston, David Basden and James French,
as well as guest appearances by Graheme Bowland and me, most things
are now working again (whoever wired Piggery's power lines to the reset
switch deserves a good kicking).

The following things still do not work:

- Dispense (won't run from Mussel, and is kinda screwy on Morwong). Coke
members, expect to do a LOT of refunding: at this stage, there is only
stuff left in slots 5 and 6, but the dispense client isn't reflecting this
on Morwong.

- Music/Webcam on Maroon: This machine won't start up. I'm looking at it
now but I don't think it will be up until tomorrow, unless someone else
comes in and has a look (if you do, can you let me know)

- Mussel is a bit funky - it will randomly lock up for a brief period of
time on my SSH sessions. Unreproducible, but it's happened three times
while I've written this e-mail.

- Snack machine is dead, but that's been the case for about a week now. I
suspect the DEC server is having issues.

If you find anything else that is broken, please reply on-list so one of
our Wheel members who isn't schmoozing it up in Canberra (sorry guys, but
I'm pretty sure that's what Canberra was -designed- for) can have a look.

Cheers,

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
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