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William Stein

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Mar 13, 2012, 10:26:31 PM3/13/12
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From: Chris Swierczewski
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Subject: University of Washington servers down?
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Hello,
The university power plant had a major malfunction. Steam was shooting everywhere. A good portion of the campus is on emergency power right now. 

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Chris Swierczewski
University of Washington
Department of Applied Mathematics
www.cswiercz.info
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:37 PM, David Loeffler <dave.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just noticed that I can't get through to Sage's trac server, or to the patchbot. But it seems that this isn't just a Sage problem: I'm getting timeouts from the University of Washington math and engineering departments' web pages as well. Any ideas what's going on there?

David

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William Stein

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Mar 13, 2012, 11:19:28 PM3/13/12
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Hi,

We have power, and I've remounted all the disks, RAID arrays, etc.,
and restarted all services that I know how to start. This excludes:

* http://aleph.sagemath.org -- the sage cell server; I know
nothing about how this is configured.

* the lmfdb database server -- Jon Bober is working on that now.

Also, the computer sage.math.washington.edu did not come back up after
the power failure. The computer redhawk.math.washington.edu booted
up but the ssh server isn't responding. redhawk has no remote
management interface, and sage.math isn't coming up probably because
of some disks being plugged in via the eSATA port confusing linux. So
neither sage.math or redhawk.math will be available until somebody
gets physical access and fixes them. This could be me on *Thursday*
morning, but not me right now, since I'm in Arizona.

Fortunately, sage.math and redhawk.math are exactly the computers on
the sage cluster that don't serve any webpages or any other essential
services anymore.

-- William

Jason Grout

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Mar 13, 2012, 11:22:54 PM3/13/12
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On 3/13/12 10:19 PM, William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have power, and I've remounted all the disks, RAID arrays, etc.,
> and restarted all services that I know how to start. This excludes:
>
> * http://aleph.sagemath.org -- the sage cell server; I know
> nothing about how this is configured.


aleph is up now.

Thanks,

Jason

William Stein

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Mar 13, 2012, 11:37:27 PM3/13/12
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Quick update:

* http://aleph.sagemath.org is up now, as Jason mentioned.

* Absolutely *none* of the external disks attached to any of the
machines have appeared, so I can only guess something weird happened
with a power strip or something. The impact of this is that the
virtual machine that serves http://planet.sagemath.org temporarily
doesn't exist. So that service is down.
Also, the Bill Page virtual machine can't be booted up, which serves
an axiom wiki.

I hope this gets fixed on Thursday when I'm back.

-- William

David Loeffler

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Mar 14, 2012, 4:38:57 AM3/14/12
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On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:37:27 UTC, William stein wrote:
Quick update:

   * http://aleph.sagemath.org is up now, as Jason mentioned.

   * Absolutely *none* of the external disks attached to any of the
machines have appeared, so I can only guess something weird happened
with a power strip or something.  The impact of this is that the
virtual machine that serves http://planet.sagemath.org temporarily
doesn't exist.  So that service is down.
Also, the Bill Page virtual machine can't be booted up, which serves
an axiom wiki.

I hope this gets fixed on Thursday when I'm back.

 -- William


It looks like the patchbot server, at patchbot.sagemath.org, is still down.

David

David Loeffler

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Mar 14, 2012, 5:06:14 AM3/14/12
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On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 08:38:57 UTC, David Loeffler wrote:
It looks like the patchbot server, at patchbot.sagemath.org, is still down.

David

... and now it's back up again. Thanks!

Simon King

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Mar 14, 2012, 6:05:53 AM3/14/12
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Hi!

On 14 Mrz., 10:06, David Loeffler <dave.loeff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... and now it's back up again. Thanks!

I can still not connect with sage.math.washington.edu. scp tells me
that the connection timed out.

Cheers,
Simon

William Stein

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Mar 14, 2012, 11:36:43 AM3/14/12
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To quote from my previous email: "Also, the computer


sage.math.washington.edu did not come back up after the power failure.
The computer redhawk.math.washington.edu booted up but the ssh
server isn't responding."

This will be resolved 24 hours from right now, when I get back to Seattle.

In the meantime, please use geom, mod, or boxen, which should provide
equivalent functionality, except for /scratch partitions.

-- William

>
> Cheers,
> Simon
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David Loeffler

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Mar 14, 2012, 1:31:08 PM3/14/12
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The trac server, which has been up all day, now seems to have gone back down again.

David
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