[tech] Power failure aftermath

[David Adam]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:48:44PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> > - 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.
>
> Should be fixed. Involves killing dispense on mermaid, running minicom,
> typing some random commands, and restarting dispense.

Are these documented anywhere? Just for eventualities like this?

> > - 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)
>
> Not sure about this.

Fixed. Network cable not plugged in, and there was a disk in it labelled
"Macintosh System 7 Disk Tools", which confused me no end. After several
iatrogenic (i.e. MY BAD) issues involved in moving it from a low altitude
to its usual high one, it now works all OK.

> > - Snack machine is dead, but that's been the case for about a week now. I
> > suspect the DEC server is having issues.
>
> Should also be fixed. It no longer goes via the DEC, now plugs into the
> back of mermaid (perhaps via a patch lead to the patch panel IIRC).

I cannot find this cable. I've tried, but Mermaid is in the cabinet, it's
got another machine sitting on top of it, and nothing is labelled. And -
CRAP - I think I screwed up the Coke machine again while I was fiddling.
Will check now before I go home.

Also: Trent, Seven is up, but it appears unhappy. Check dmesg - a lot of
services apparently didn't start. It also doesn't boot without a keyboard,
and I managed to screw up the KVM connection so there's now another
keyboard in that cabinet. Didn't want to screw anything around, but you
might want to look at setting the BIOS to boot without a keyboard.

Thanks to Bernard, Shig and Frenchie for their assistance in getting the
rest of the clubroom on-line.

Trying to decide whether I've acheived more good than bad today. Possibly.

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member