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Wi-Fi switchover sucks beyond imagination [closed]
I'm having AP1 in our home. I've recently bought AP2 to expand our Wi-Fi coverage. Now AP1 and AP2 is about 13 metres (43 feet) and 4 walls away from each other.
Let's say I connect to AP1 then ...
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Linux closing connection after successful login
I am working on a server with Debian 5.2.2. Barely having any administrative knowledge with Linux, I think I screwed something up. I used apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to get everything up to ...
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sda1 (?) raid failed on debian - what to do now?
ispconfig says that my server has raid problems. The server is not mine, it is rented from a hosting company. The OS installation was not my business: the hosting firm did it.
cat /proc/mdstat
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Changing MySQL startup timeout ([fail] reported although mysql properly started)
I've created a script to cleanup InnoDB storage engine. Everything works fine except that creating the ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 files when innodb_log_file_size is set to 1GB takes a while which ...
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Cannot login at hvc0
Our LDAP server recently crashed and now we are facing problems reaching some of our servers.
We have a Xen guest for which the login does no longer work. In the logs, the following error appears.
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Event ID 534 logon Failure
Cannot understand why the iuser_{machinename} is logged as in the event as logon failure: The user had not been granted the requested logon type at this machine. Thank you
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Single point of failure: File and Print Server
We have a Documentum farm where we have Content servers, application servers and web servers. We have been able to eliminate single point of failure from these components by using clustering and load ...
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Twitter Error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” [closed]
I'm thinking that this question might be inappropriate here, so please forgive me for asking, but after making some changes to my Twitter account settings, everything I do -- log in, recover password, ...
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Lync Server 2010 CMS Replication Error: Access denied to RtcReplicaRoot folder
I am unable to replicate Lync Server 2010 CMS and the log files show that "Access denied to RtcReplicaRoot folder"
I have re-installed lync server and also tried doing this
However, none of the ...
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GET method (failed) sometimes on a link
We just moved to a new server, and our page sometimes doesn't load.
When I check Inspect elements, and look at the network tab, some element gets cancelled and sometimes the entire pages fails to ...
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Disks online through power pull, replace? [closed]
Suppose you had a server cabinet and the power was pulled on the whole thing (this just happened to us).
Now suppose you had a hard drive (3.5" SATA WD Enterprise) that was not previously in use. It ...
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Apache server cannot restart
I've been trying to get my server up and running for a while now. I recently set up a centOS 6 server and I'm having issues with the Apache server. I had a domain up and running, everything worked ...
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Is my ASA 5505 almost dead?
I just got a refurbished ASA 5505.
It works fine until un need to reload it or unplug it from power and replug it, when I do this and it's warm (even after some minutes of uses, so still physicaly ...
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Cron job failing on Ubuntu VPS
I have a newly setup Ubuntu VPS that has logcheck installed.
Every hour I am getting a email with the following entries:
Feb 15 19:09:01 zeus CRON[4626]: (CRON) error (grandchild #4627 failed with ...
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rpmbuild failed on dependency gnutls-devel even when pkg-config identifies the installed library
I'm trying to install the latest version of csync2, file synchronization tool, from LINBIT on CENT OS 5.4. Some recent changes made to this software have mandated that gnutls>=2.6 is installed on the ...
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Exchange reporting about any delivery failure
We have a new exchange server in our organization, and sometimes users report an email that failed to deliver. Typically, I believe that it is related to size or content restrictions from either the ...
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Is this a memory failure being logged (CentOS web server)
$ sudo tail /var/log/messages
Jan 30 13:47:58 www kernel: EDAC MC0: CE row 3, channel 0, label "": Corrected error (Socket=0 channel=1 dimm=1)
Jan 30 13:47:58 www kernel: EDAC MC0: CE row 3, channel ...
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SQL Server 2005 SP3 Failover Cluster Node Replacement Service Pack
2-node SQL Server 2005 SP3 (9.0.4226) Failover Cluster running on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 SP2. My passive node suffered a RAID failure on the OS partition. I evicted the failed node, rebuilt it, ...
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HP UX 11.00 Post installation error - FAILURE
I just installed HP-UX 11.00 on a HP-RP2470 Server.
The installation in general went OK, however near the end I've seen the folowing output on the console:
Has anybody seen this before? What ...
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Hard disk read error
I have some old (8 years) hdd, Maxtor 40Gb (i think that full model number is not important here). Suddenly, i can't read some files from it. Using chkdsk, after LONG scan i realised i have some 380 ...
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HP SmartArray P400: How to repair failed logical drive?
I have a HP Server with SmartArray P400 controller (incl. 256 MB Cache/Battery Backup) with a logicaldrive with replaced failed physicaldrive that does not rebuild.
This is how it looked when I ...
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Recover RAID 5 data after created new array instead of re-using
Folks please help - I am a newb with a major headache at hand (perfect storm situation).
I have a 3 1tb hdd on my ubuntu 11.04 configured as software raid 5. The data had been copied weekly onto ...
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RAID 1 mirror disk failure detection
In the BIOS of an ASUS motherboard I've set up a RAID 1 mirror out of two hard drives. All is working fine at present. I have two OS installed on the machine: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
My ...
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Predictive failure on hot swappable drive
on a HP PROLIANT ML350 G5 server, one of 3 physical hot swappable drives in a Smart Array has a status of Predictive Failure and the amber light is flashing. Each drive is 146GB. In HP System ...
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MySql fails to update
In the past two years we use MySql for keeping data for nightly builds of our C++ projects. DB is fairly small, and has a few triggers on it.
Recently it began failing on updates rather frequently. We ...
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Will a failed WD external hard drive deteriorate further by sitting around? [closed]
Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this - if anyone knows a better place kindly direct me.
My external hard drive is already failed: it spins up, my machine tries for 20-30 seconds to ...
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USB Legacy support burning PSU, is it possible? [closed]
So one day, the PSU in the machine I was working with decided to blow up. Yes, I heard a pop, and a strong burnt smell.
So what happened? What caused it? How can I prevent it?
The situation:
The ...
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SBS 2008 SP2 Backup - Volume Shadow Copy Operation Failed
Server Setup
Exchange 2007 Version: 08.03.0192.001 (Rollup 4)
Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2 (Rollup 5)
Exchange set up on D: drive (449 GB / 698 GB Free)
80 GB / 148 GB Free on OS drive.
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Monitoring Sudden Raid Drive Failure
One the drives in a 2-disk software RAID-1 array on a dedicated server running CentOS failed suddenly this weekend and took the entire server down. While I haven't had time to review the logs and ...
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RAID 5 - How do I detect if a disk has failed, and which one?
I bought an IBM eSeries with 5 disks of 36GB each.
I would like to make a RAID5 out of it.
I want to know how can I detect if a disk has failed or needs to be changed. If one fails, does the system ...
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Rack mounted UPS failure
During a recent power fialure our rack mounted UPS failed after 17 minutes( design time 30 minutes). How often should a rack mounted UPS be tested?
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What does a temperature failure look like in the syslog?
I have a ubuntu server that I suspect failed due to overheating. I'm doing a post-mortem and I'm not exactly sure what to look for to confirm my hunch.
Any thoughts on what logged information would ...
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mysql InnoDB: Assertion failure ibuf0ibuf.c line 4185 unrecoverable data crash
I get this assertion failure on mysql 5.5.15 version.
-here is the mysql server errors-
110927 21:56:51 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 1126107456 in file ibuf0ibuf.c line
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InnoDB: Failing ...
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CentOS/Xen Hypervisor Completely Locked-Up, Where To Look For Answers
Our hypervisor server running CentOS and Xen completely locked-up just right now. The screen was completely blank. I had to hard reboot, and everything came back up normally. No indication of a ...
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Intel Xeon MTBF/Lifetime
I'm looking for hard numbers involving the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) or lifetime that can be expected of the Intel Xeon 5000-series of processors. I'm just looking for stock data (no ...
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Dell R900 memory bank mismatch
We've got two Dell R900 servers deployed in a well known managed hosting provider in the US. One of the Dell R900 servers has had its 128 GB memory (32x 4 GB) swapped out 6 times now. Every time the ...
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Does this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive?
I'm wondering if the results of this SMART selftest indicate a failing drive, this is the only drive that comes up with 'completed: read failure' in the results.
# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sde
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Multiple Enterprise-level Western Digital hard drives failing
In 2007, I built a 2.5TB server with 5 500GB WDC RE2 hard drives in a RAID5 configuration. Since these are Western Digital's Enterprise-level drives, they come with a 5 year warranty, but I have been ...
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Fedora 14 storage server intermittently unresponsive
I have a storage server which intermittently freezes, becomes non-responsive.
Components:
norco 4224
14 x 2TB Western Digital Green
Asus p5q-e sli
intel core 2 duo e6700
2 x Crucial Ballistix ...
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HP ProLiant Smart Array “lock up” code 0x11
I've a ProLiant DL580 G7 server that experienced a storage subsystem failure during production. The system appeared available and responded to pings, but all I/O access stalled (the system load must ...
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Ubuntu 9.10 Network Bonding — randomly dies
I've run out of ideas with this problem, so thought a SF question may help.
We've a number of Ubuntu 9.10 servers which we've recently switch from single NICs to bonded NICs using standard kernel ...
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MySQL Auto Increment failing
I am having a table with one column of primary key and auto increment of int(11) data type.
When I am trying to insert into that table, I am getting following error.
Failed to read auto-increment ...
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Dell PERC5 raid; firmware
I have been having problems with disks on my Dell PERC5/i Raid controller, and was instructed to update the controller's Bios (by Dell and by OpenManage).
One of these problems is disks getting a ...
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Failure Audit on SQL Server
It may be a classic but yes I am newbie and I need your help with stg.
Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 runs on the same server. A process (.exe) has to be running all the time. However, sometimes I ...
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What's a good data center failure “back up plan”?
With Amazon EC2 down right now, I figured this is a good time to ask the question.
We've got all of our services hosted on EC2 at the moment and as a result, nothing is responding at all. Ideally, ...
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How to tell a disk failure in RAID1
I have an old Dell poweredge R200 in collocation which has 2 hard disks in RAID 1. I am wondering how should I know if one one the disks is failed?
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Should servers be turned off at night?
There is a server that is used from 4:30 am in the morning until ~ 22:00.
Should it be turned off? I think that it is a server and that it won't have a problem to stay on, but serious professors are ...
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Diagnostics of website failure for only some users
I run a regular Apache + mod_wsgi + nginx website on a VDS and encountered a strange problem. The website works fine from my computer and also from our managers' one (who use a different Internet ...
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How to automatically restart a service on failure in Linux
On Windows, you can set what should happen if/when a service fails. Is there a standard way of achieving the same thing on Linux (CentOS in particular)?
A bigger part of my question is: how do you ...
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HDD-Errors while building Software-RAID5
I want to build up my new NAS with CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6, but I am not able to build the RAID5. I created a new RAID-device using mdadm, but after some hours of work, mdadm marked one or two ...
