[tech] Motsugo is dead (long live mantis)

[David Adam]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Sam Moore wrote:
> Whilst attempting to add the second disk to raid1, [BOB] and I managed to
> resize /dev/md1 to 12.5% of what we thought we were resizing it to, which
> caused large parts of motsugo's filesystem to start disappearing. /home (and
> hence user data) is OK, except you can't get to it because motsugo is down.
> Which means you can't login to any other servers either.
> 
> So that's why everything is FITH at the moment. Motsugo is probably going to
> need a reinstall. The latest update was that it can't even get past grub.

[BOB] has reinstalled Motsugo with Debian Wheezy, the array is now the 
right size for its contents, and most services are back.

I reinstalled all the packages that were previously installed, with a few 
exceptions for things that are not directly avaiable in the Wheezy archive 
(clojure, fsharp, doc-linux-text, gcj, gitosis, oprofile and twidge, plus 
a bunch of oldish libraries).

[BOB] has been carefully restoring all the configuration in /etc and /var,
[MSH] has been working on Dovecot, and I'm about to poke the LDAP 
secondary.

Any problems please let us know on IRC or here on tech at .

Cheers

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au