[GRLUG] Self introduction and plea

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On Sunday 10 February 2008 20:39:41 pm George (Skip) VerDuin wrote:
> 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 the initial boots, but now has been replaced by a pair of MP 2600+ that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
>
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Welcome to the group! I can't help with your problem, but I bet someone else 
here can. 

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