[McIDAS #FQS-529833]: Hang on...another ride coming.

Hi Gilbert,

re: toasted disks
> Well, two were because of lightning. The last two, who knows.

Hopefully your machines are on high quality UPSes...

> The boxes
> are cool, the core temps are fine...the manufacturer said he thinks they
> got a batch of bad drives. Bingo!

OK.

> The eth0 card inexplicably died at 7:02 CT this morning. It's in the
> kernel log; oit doesn't say why. My mouse and keyboard aren't working
> either. AFter doing some research, I discovered that keeping "Legacy USB
> support" on in the BIOS is a bad thing. I turned it off and rebooted the
> machine and also tweaked a few more settings. We'll see if this works.

I get highly suspicious when there are multiple failures on a machine.

re: hang in there
> Thanks. I checked both files; I don't see anything wrong explicitly in
> them. Try logging in now.

I just logged in to weather and made the following change to /etc/hosts:

#127.0.0.1      weather.admin.niu.edu   weather localhost.localdomain   
localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
#::1    localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

After making the change, the errors you reported in /var/log/messages went
away:

131.156.8.47 != weather.admin.niu.edu
Oct  6 13:20:02 weather xinetd[2559]: EXIT: mcidas status=0 pid=16381 
duration=0(sec)
Oct  6 13:20:02 weather xinetd[2559]: START: mcidas pid=16385 
from=::ffff:131.156.8.47
Oct  6 13:20:02 weather xinetd[16385]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host 
name/address mismatch: 
131.156.8.47 != weather.admin.niu.edu
Oct  6 13:20:02 weather xinetd[2559]: EXIT: mcidas status=0 pid=16385 
duration=0(sec)
Oct  6 13:21:01 weather xinetd[2559]: START: mcidas pid=16751 
from=::ffff:131.156.8.47
Oct  6 13:21:01 weather xinetd[2559]: EXIT: mcidas status=0 pid=16751 
duration=0(sec)
Oct  6 13:21:01 weather xinetd[2559]: START: mcidas pid=16755 
from=::ffff:131.156.8.47
Oct  6 13:21:01 weather xinetd[2559]: EXIT: mcidas status=0 pid=16755 
duration=0(sec)
 ...

I contend that you _never_ should add the machine name to the 127.0.0.1 
definition.
I commented out the last line since you are (likely) not using IPv6.

I'll take a closer look at the McIDAS/ADDE/LDM setup later today or tonight.  I
have an architect coming over in a half hour...


Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FQS-529833
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open