[Clusterusers] fly's hardware problem

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

...or not. It appears to be happening again. I'm out tomorrow, but I
should be in briefly on Wednesday and will make another attempt.
    -Josiah


On 12/21/15, 11:04 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson 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
Head, Systems and Networking
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002