[Debian-l10n-devel] Churro down....

César Gómez Martín cesar.gomez at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 08:41:04 UTC 2012


2012/2/1 Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>:
> Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
>> Quoting César Gómez Martín (cesar.gomez at gmail.com):
>>
>> > Bad news!
>> >
>> > The system administrator has not been able to fix Churro. "Some of the
>> > services are not working anymore", that's what he told me. :((
>> >
>> > He tried to reboot it several times with no luck. What should I do?.
>>
>> Well, with only this information I have no idea.
>>
>> What services? What is displayed on screen? I actually feel like I'm
>> talking to one of my Windows users, sorry to say this..:-(
>>
>
>
>
> Sorry, César, that may have sounded a bit harsh, but it was late
> yesterday...:-)
>
> I thought about all this all night long and Im in trouble coming with
> a good answer.
>
> As long as we can't ssh into the machine, we're in much trouble.
>
> What would be nice is to know whether someone can login locally and
> check why incoming ssh isn't working (maybe failure in DNS
> resolution?).
>
> What would be nice also is to know whether the machine at least
> bootscompletely up to a "login:" prompt. I can hand out my own
> account/password if needed, so that someone you trust can sudo on the
> machine (I don't have anythign sensitive on it).
>
> The alternative might be bringing back the machine at a place where
> *you* could help out debugging things and put the machine back online
> (even with a reduced bandwidth) and try restoring an incoming SSH
> access.
>
> That would allowconsidering an emergency transfer to the virtual
> machine that is ready to become i18n.debian.org
>
> It would also help if Felipe could tell us whether he feels like
> i18n.debian.org is ready enough to temporarily host i18n.debian.net
> (which means not beign under DSA control yet).
>
> In short, it would help if I wasn't feeling alone trying to restore
> things back, with only your help, César (thanks again for it) while
> you're 150kmaway from the machine.
>
> /me, slightly depressed by the situation.

Don't worry, I understand your concerns. I am also frustrated because
of not being able to help more from here... :(

I will ping again now!.

Regards,
César.



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