| tammyt | linux idiot here, I have a server overseas that I can't seem to boot normally anymore. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit. I was working on it last july 7th. went to check in on it yesturday and no relys to ICMP or SSH. I used the web portal to boot to a recovery kernel (other partition) and it looks like it died later that night I was working on it (july 8th). Last time stamps in /var/log are from that night, | 02:19 |
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| tammyt | even auth.log's last input was an hourly cron job. the directory /mnt/sda2/boot is empty... That's not normal... right?? Can anyone point me to a how to for re-creating the latest LTS kernel/grub/whatevers that need to be back in that directory? | 02:19 |
| infinity | tammyt: Given that your root partition is sda2, are you sure you didn't have a boot partition at sda1? | 02:26 |
| tammyt | making a pastebin | 02:29 |
| tammyt | http://pastebin.com/mKBWTwVC | 02:33 |
| tammyt | so if my boot partition is sda1, why would it suddenly stop working mid running? I litterally had this server spawned for me, logged in, made a new user, scoped out auth.log and saw all sorts of bots attempting connections, so I changed sshd to listen on a different port, took backup copies of some files (passwd, shadow, group), installed a few minor prgrams through apt-get (htop, tmux, iptraf, a few other small | 02:39 |
| tammyt | infinity: ^^ | 03:01 |
| tammyt | I'm just slowly getting angry over here, and it must be clouding my thinking | 03:02 |
| tammyt | or I'm an idiot. | 03:02 |
| * tammyt starts to turn green | 03:19 | |
| tammyt | I'm going to take a bath, if anyone is willing to commit some time to this charity case, that would be amazeballs. | 03:20 |
| infinity | tammyt: Without a console log, "why it stopped working" may not be something you're going to get to the bottom of. | 04:18 |
| infinity | tammyt: I was just responding to your "where did the contents of /boot go?" which, as you found, is on /dev/sda1 (and I assume it's mounted from /etc/fstab). | 04:19 |
| tammyt | infinity: you are totaly right. fstab points to the uuid of sda1. would the next logical step be to troubleshoot grub? | 04:34 |
| infinity | tammyt: Well, I don't even know what your issue is, so I don't know what you should troubleshoot. You said it died. You never said you tried to reboot it. | 04:35 |
| infinity | tammyt: "It stopped working, so I booted to a recovery partition". | 04:35 |
| tammyt | infinity: I did reboot (through the webadmin console (it's a button...)) but no response from the box in any fashion. when I set the boot mode to the recovery console, and then rebooted, that's when I was finally able to get in. | 04:36 |
| tammyt | I rebooted a few times today even (normal boot) and there is still not a trace of anything logged in /var/liog | 04:37 |
| infinity | tammyt: So, you have no console while it's trying to boot? | 04:37 |
| tammyt | correct. | 04:37 |
| infinity | tammyt: It might be fscking / and you're being impatient and rebooting in the middle of it. :P | 04:37 |
| tammyt | it's a 1TB disk, and I let it go overnight... | 04:38 |
| tammyt | my service provider doesn't support any sort of ILO or IPMI connections to old boxes like mine either.... | 04:39 |
| tammyt | mega bummer | 04:39 |
| infinity | tammyt: That's going to make it rather difficult to know what's wrong. :/ | 04:53 |
| tammyt | Where do you think I should look next? | 04:59 |
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| thresh | hello, I think I've found an issue with the kernels shipped with Ubuntu 15.04 - I see data corruption under my qemu VM when doing http file transfers (hg clone). | 21:00 |
| thresh | I've bisected the linus git to this commit: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e5a4b0bb803b39a36478451eae53a880d2663d5b | 21:01 |
| thresh | Is there such a thing as a "minimal" ubuntu kernel configuration, suitable for running 15.04 stock install under KVM w/virtio? | 21:02 |
| thresh | It would have been much faster for me to bisect it this way :) | 21:05 |
| infinity | thresh: The "minimal" install is linux-virtual instead of linux-generic (doesn't install the massive -extra package with all the modules you don't need). | 21:22 |
| infinity | thresh: But it's all from the same source, so that doesn't help bisection. :P | 21:22 |
| infinity | thresh: Anyhow, can you please file a bug with "ubuntu-bug linux"? | 21:25 |
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