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>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Washington >Keywords: 200606212344.k5LNioSZ029196 IDD unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu Hi Harry, re: >It is now dead again. This has been going on for two days now. You >really need to take a serious look at this machine - it is sick. SSEC has report problems with unidata2 after your first note. Just in case they were not letting you know the machine's status, I am including their messages below. From address@hidden Wed Jun 21 20:35:40 2006 Hi Unidata2 has crashed twice tonight. The first time was around 6:30 PM. When it came up it httpd wouldn't start. I tried starting httpd manually and when nothing happened I issued a reboot and watched the log as it came up and saw the message that httpd was starting but when the machine finally came up httpd still wasn't running. I called Jerry Robaidek and he got httpd going again. But then between 9:00 PM and 9:25 PM, Unidata2 crashed again. This time it came up to the "enter root password or control-d to continue" I called Jerry again and while I was talking to him hit the control-d combo and unidata2 came back up for now but Jerry is trying to get a hold of the machine's sysadmin. Be well. Douglas Ratcliff -- SSEC Data Center Email: address@hidden UW Madison Web: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/datacenter 1225 W. Dayton Phone: (608) 262-0502 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Fax: (608) 263-6738 From address@hidden Wed Jun 21 21:08:55 2006 Unidata2 crashed for a third time around 10:00 PM After the second crash, the raid failed to mount and ldm failed to start. Jerry's going to send email to the ldm list. :end Douglas Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. >From address@hidden Wed Jun 21 21:27:00 2006 >Unidata2 crashed a fourth time. This made Jerry suspect the UPS unit in >the corner. I checked and it said the battery pack needed to be >replaced. I was able to figure out how to set it to bypass. >From address@hidden Wed Jun 21 21:35:56 2006 >Hi, >Harry is correct ... unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu crashed this evening. >Haven't determined what the problem is yet. I have had it up, but it >has been rebooted 4 times this evening. I recommend switching your >NOAAport feeds to a back up. I have disabled non essential services >on unidata2 in an effort to keep it up. >Jerry