[GRLUG] Rebooting linux server

[Joseph McLaughlin]

Could the mother board have bad caps?

 
There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!


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 From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Rebooting linux server
 
What kind of UPSs are these? Are they always-operational, or do they
have a switch-in time? Do the UPSs have an event log? (i.e. I've got a
UPS at home which logs power events) What does the log indicate?

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> The UPS guess turned out to be wrong as well. I had a spare UPS (a small
> one) sitting around and moved the server to be on that UPS by itself. It
> still reboots with power faults even though I know this UPS is good. Nothing
> else surrounding it reboots either (even other stuff connected to the old
> UPS) so I guess that was a bad guess.
>
> I have now replaced both power supplies in the server. It's still faulting,
> claiming that the power died. So, I can confirm that the power is good, the
> UPS isn't bad, and the power supplies have been replaced. The machine gives
> no indication that there is a problem except for claiming that the power
> died. This is unfortunately starting to sound like the motherboard is cooked
> or something.
>
>
> On 7/10/2012 7:13 PM, Joseph McLaughlin wrote:
>
> No the ups is testing itself!!
> You can replace its batteries.
> There is a store at Leonard and Monroe that probably sells them!
>
> Joe
>
> There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!
> ________________________________
> From: Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com>
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Rebooting linux server
>
> On 7/7/2012 7:27 PM, Christopher House wrote:
>>
>>
>> Does it have an iLO? Is it configured and on the network? Have you logged
>> in to its webserver and checked the IML - Integrated Management Log, or the
>> iLO log? They usually indicate hardware errors.
>>
>
> Ding, ding, ding! You win the prize! (Or you would have had there been a
> prize.) I forgot that iLO would do so much logging. I just logged in and
> found that the server reports losing power at every point where I see a
> mysterious reboot happen. It is on an (ancient) battery backup so this leads
> me to believe that the UPS is junk. I suppose that's a strong possibility
> since it is so very old.
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