[SAC] VM crash

[Alex Mandel]

On 05/25/2011 08:56 AM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Earlier today, strk reported that the trac/svn instance appeared to be offline.
> I hopped into #osuosl, and they reported they had gotten a page about the machine
> going down, and were working on restarting it. They reported that the machine
> kernel paniced for no obvious reason, which took down the host machine.
> 
> They were able to restart and everything seems to have come back up cleanly.
> 
> However, Ramereth, who was working on the problem, mentioned the following:
> 
> 11:54:09 <@Ramereth> we probably should schedule an outage soon to upgrade the bios to ensure that's not the problem
> 11:54:35 <@Ramereth> we've had some issues in the past with the similar dell series and bios upgrades usually fix stuff random like this
> 11:54:57 < crschmidt> Ramereth: Okay; I'll send a note to our SAC list and we can pick a time sometime in the next couple weeks to do that, if that sounds okay?
> 11:55:28 <@Ramereth> worksforme
> 11:55:40 <@Ramereth> just send an email to support when you figure out a date
> 
> So we should schedule this at some point soon so that we can rule this out as a
> source of potential problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Chris_______________________________________________

BIOS updates are now done on both osgeo3 and osgeo4. Hopefully that will
resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Alex