[tech] Motsugo is dead (long live mantis)

Anil Sharma anil at propriocept.com
Sat Feb 22 12:02:42 WST 2014


Thanks guys

On 22 February 2014 03:20, David Adam <zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> 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
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