[GRLUG] Self introduction and plea

[George (Skip) VerDuin]

Greetings from Grand Haven on a really-cold evening...

I have been stumped by FC-8 and its dependency on the motherboard.
The previous board was by Digiboard, the new one is by Tyan.
The short version of my past week(+) is that I am in the last stages of
replacing motherboard, power supply, and memory, after (I believe) an
electrolytic capacitor faulted and took those components with it.  The
good news is that the 3 hard drives, DVD R/W, and AMD processor, got
thru the event without damage that has shown up [yet].  Oh yes -- for
completeness the former single AMD MP 2000+ worked OK on the new MB for
the initial boots, but now has been replaced by a pair of MP 2600+ that
report no errors working in SMP.

I am operating on a "workstation" build of FC-8 [1/5/08 upgrade] based
on FC-7 [upgrade] from FC-6 [fresh start a year ago].  Many things work
just as before the event (for example: firefox, evolution, SMB,
boinc, ...), but Apache, moin-moin, CUPS, bind(?), fail.  The services
are active but not able to service requests.

Now I've reached "brain dead" after the nth time thru /var/log/... and
all my configuration notes from the past years...  I hope a little rest
and some conversation with this group might get rid of the blockage over
the next few days.

Here is my request: if moving a running system hardware-to-hardware has
revealed any subtle secrets to anyone in this list, I'd like to chat.
If I find nothing new in the next few days, my next approach is to
rebuild the system from scratch...

My history?  The first computer I touched was in 1963 at school.  Just
for grins before I began this mail I googled "bendix G-15".  The first
hit was from a museum and there was a picture of the relic -- that
triggered a few memories as "lab tech" and "maintenance man" in the math
department lab.  I have used computer applications of many types on many
hardware platforms ever since, and now in retirement I am my own IT
dept.  I'm a registered PE [electrical] and my history is largely as
user, a few years application developer [department manager], trainer
for other users, and IT specialist for an SCO UNIX platform.  Now Linux
platforms do everything I need except for Quicken and a few Media Player
things.  That keeps windoz in my coop.  My Linux intro was Red Hat 6 in
2000(+/-) and it has been a terrific hit.

I've looked thru the GRLUG archives a bit and I find this group peeks my
interest.  You guys [not demeaning gals] seem to be having a good time
pushing Linux to solve problems for users.  I hope you will have a chair
for me later this month at your meeting?

If you have read this far, thanks for your attention!  If you don't have
the answer I am looking for in hand, no problem  -- as you probably can
guess I'm simply trying to avoid going thru a fresh build and hooking up
the existing stuff all over again.  I don't find rebuild a trivial task,
but I've done it a few times.

Thanks for being there...

Warmest regards from here,
Skip