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LiveJournal Blackout Analysis Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-it-all-hits-the-fan dept.

Hakubi_Washu writes "LiveJournal has posted their official analysis of what happened last Friday. Apparently someone "accidentally" pushed the emergency power off (which should keep all power off, even UPS), reset it and ran off. They had problems to come back up fast, because of "9 machines with faulty motherboards with embedded NICs that don't do auto-negotiation properly", Machines not fully rebooting for analysis reasons and few others. "

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  1. Woot f4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    iirecoverablge The Cathedral

  2. Re:Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a nasty bug in Linux that makes the computer reboot every 49.7 days. The worst part is that this bug has been around for almost 10 years...

    What good is a million eyes looking at the code if they are attached to half a million idiots?

    I guess most people don't realize this because they need to recompile their kernel every other week, or they use Linux only to boot into illegal copies of Windows.

    Well, you get what you pay for. Is this SCO Linux that you talk about any better for $699?

  3. Re:machine failure by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ahh...no. You should NEVER have to reboot a server. Repeat after me...NEVER reboot a server. The GOOD SYSADMIN part would be making sure your firmware is updated and any driver patches have been installed to make sure this does not happen.

    --

    Gorkman