[Clusterusers] fly's hardware problem

[Lee Spector]

Thanks Josiah!!!

 -Lee


> On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
> One of the power supplies was probably bad (dim/flickering lights, and
> Google searches had other people experiencing this problem with a bad
> power supply). I replaced it with a spare I had sitting around (thanks
> Mt. Holyoke)! and hopefully that will be the end of that. Of course, it
> could be something else too :)
> For now, fly's back up. Hopefully for good, but no guarantees.
>    -Josiah
> 
> 
> On 12/21/15 10:35 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>> Well, it just kernel panicked. Neat. That's new. So it's down now until
>> I get it back up :) I'll keep you updated...
>>    -Josiah
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/21/15 10:08 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>    I rebooted fly again - it is not fixed yet, though it is up and
>>> running currently. I will probably take it down later today to try
>>> removing one of the CPU's to see if it is the problem. This should
>>> result in less than 10 minutes of downtime, and jobs should resume where
>>> they left off, so no need to hold off launching renders or whatever. My
>>> current theory is that CPU #2 is faulty. It could also be a bad power
>>> supply. I'll keep you updated.
>>> 
> 
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> Wm. Josiah Erikson
> Assistant Director of IT, Infrastructure Group
> System Administrator, School of CS
> Hampshire College
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Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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