Pardon me.
We're getting the same error as yesterday, but on the other drive.
This sucks.
Note: Trackbacks are turned off, because every little bit helps, and they're 98% spam anyway.
I'm just re-updating the backups, and then I'm going to reboot. We'll be down for about five minutes, and we'll see if that helps at all.
Update: Rebooting didn't do anything useful. I've logged a support ticket. We should be getting the drive replaced on Sunday morning, unless the problem gets worse, in which case we'll just shut down and do it right away.
It's a really strange problem. The server is using the same brand of RAID controller - 3Ware - that I use in all the servers at work, and in four years I've never seen anything like this. On the other hand, the disk performance of this system has always been a bit sluggish, so maybe there was something wrong all along.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 02:41 PM | TrackBackIs this due to the blog spammers? Munuviana Expeditionary Unit, line up!
Where to General?
Posted by Nick Queen at August 25, 2005 02:45 PMNot spammers, it's a hardware problem. Though it's a very strange one.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 02:47 PMStrangely suspicious. I wonder if the problem is contagious? I've never heard of such a thing, but a-holes are inventing new ways to intentionally screw up computers all the time.
Hopefully it's just an odd coincidence, as so often seems to happen with hardware.
Posted by Ogre at August 25, 2005 03:21 PMI can't see my templates anymore. Is this related?
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 04:14 PMDarn. Really wanted to drive spammers before us amongst the lamentations of their women. Now I'm bored.
Posted by Nick Queen at August 25, 2005 04:47 PMAngry in T.O. - Your templates are gone. Crap. Do you have a backup of them, or should I restore them from the database backup?
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 04:51 PMWell my site still seems to be up today, but I'm having trouble getting into my email (Neomail)...but that could be because of the work computer I'm using too, so not sure if it's related.
Once is a pain in the arse. Twice is highly suspect.
Posted by Simon at August 25, 2005 05:00 PMI only finished them yesterday at 1am. I have a backup of the old ones. And I've got the new ones, but not in their final form (about 80% done).
I can go ahead and probably restore them myself (or get defaults from the MT website) unless you can restore them lickedy-split.
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 05:00 PMAngry in T.O. - Your templates are back! There were database corruptions in the template table, possibly because you were changing your templates while the system was playing up. It seems to be fixed now.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 05:01 PMOh. Not all of them made it. 
Sorry about that, I don't know if I can retrieve them.
Simon - not sure about email; it should be working, and I'm getting my email (via POP3, not webmail).
Give it another try and see how you go.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 05:07 PMWow! They're back. Except for ComponentQuotes...but I can recreate that one myself.
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 05:09 PM90% are there. I'll take it the rest of the way.
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 05:09 PMEverything's fine except for the same bugs I had yesterday, which I'm certain have nothing to do with you. For instance, when I press the "Search" button, my paypal tip window comes up. What the hell?
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 05:20 PMUh...
I've disabled search and trackbacks for now. Trackbacks because they're mostly spam anyway, and search because I was seeing multiple searches running at once, each using about 160MB of memory. Not good.
I'll turn them back on in the morning when I'll be around to keep an eye on things.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 05:26 PMOh, that would explain it. I'll yank that component from my sidebar (as you've seen, I've modularized my blog template).
Posted by Angry in T.O. at August 25, 2005 05:30 PMPixy - I tried again via a different computer but still cannot get into webmail...it says it cannot find the server. I'm using http://simonworld.mu.nu:2095 as the URL, which has always worked before....any ideas?
Posted by Simon at August 27, 2005 08:04 AMI tried it, and it worked first time. Maybe your firewall people have done something bad? I'll poke around a bit more and see if I can find anything.
Posted by Pixy Misa at August 27, 2005 01:55 PM
