[Clusterusers] fly's hardware problem

Bassam Kurdali bassam at urchn.org
Mon Dec 21 12:22:22 EST 2015


thanks! I guess this is a good time to do some renders :)
On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 11:36 -0500, Lee Spector wrote:
> Thanks Josiah!!!
> 
>  -Lee
> 
> 
> > On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshi
> > re.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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