[02:19] <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] <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?
[02:26] <infinity> tammyt: Given that your root partition is sda2, are you sure you didn't have a boot partition at sda1?
[02:29] <tammyt> making a pastebin
[02:33] <tammyt> http://pastebin.com/mKBWTwVC
[02:39] <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 
[03:01] <tammyt> infinity: ^^
[03:02] <tammyt> I'm just slowly getting angry over here, and it must be clouding my thinking
[03:02] <tammyt> or I'm an idiot.
[03:19]  * tammyt starts to turn green
[03:20] <tammyt> I'm going to take a bath, if anyone is willing to commit some time to this charity case, that would be amazeballs.
[04:18] <infinity> tammyt: Without a console log, "why it stopped working" may not be something you're going to get to the bottom of.
[04:19] <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).
[04:34] <tammyt> infinity: you are totaly right. fstab points to the uuid of sda1. would the next logical step be to troubleshoot grub?
[04:35] <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".
[04:36] <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.
[04:37] <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
[04:38] <tammyt> it's a 1TB disk, and I let it go overnight...
[04:39] <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
[04:53] <infinity> tammyt: That's going to make it rather difficult to know what's wrong. :/
[04:59] <tammyt> Where do you think I should look next?
[21:00] <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).
[21:01] <thresh> I've bisected the linus git to this commit: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e5a4b0bb803b39a36478451eae53a880d2663d5b
[21:02] <thresh> Is there such a thing as a "minimal" ubuntu kernel configuration, suitable for running 15.04 stock install under KVM w/virtio?
[21:05] <thresh> It would have been much faster for me to bisect it this way :)
[21:22] <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
[21:25] <infinity> thresh: Anyhow, can you please file a bug with "ubuntu-bug linux"?