I could not sleep at all last night. I have no idea what the problem was, but
I could not sleep. At around 3 o’clock in the morning I got up and went upstairs
and did some changes to my fileserver. Currently all my computers and cables are
a big mess because we moved on Saturday to our temporary location until we can move
into our house in (hopefully) December. For the time being we have to rely on a wireless
network and this sucks. Everything is still 802.11b and until now I was used to have
100/1000 Mbit/s and as I use most of my data over NFS this makes a big difference.
As I was already up I updated libcdio in Fedora Extras to 0.76 and included
more documentation into the -devel package. The changes are now in CVS and after a
successful build in the development repository I will copy the changes to FC-4 and FC-3,
because after doing changes at 4 o’clock in the night it is probably better to verify my
changes before immediately requesting a build for all branches.
Published on
September 12, 2005 in
adrian.
So I just arrived in Minneapolis and now I am really exhausted. After searching a bit around I even found a good spot where I can get a good enough signal from the wireless network. I am now waiting two hours for my connecting flight to Rochester.
There were three movies shown during the flight and two of these movies tried to win the Worst Movie Ever award and I am thankful that I cannot remember much of the stories. I now also highly doubt that there was a story at all. Nevertheless I watched all of them and was happy to be at least a bit distracted during the nine hour flight.
Today I was informed that I have to go to Rochester, Mn. Tomorrow I will book my
flight and on Sunday I have to go. I will probably stay there until Friday if all
goes well. This happened all on pretty short notice and it has only been the fourth
day since I have returned from my vacation.
Books
I have finished reading The Amber Spyglass from Philip Pullmann
and will now start reading the new Harry Potter book.
Thinkpad
I have now a second hard drive for my T30. I can now exchange my DVD drive
with a hard drive which helps me a lot because I had already trouble with the
space left on my first hard drive.
ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
On our mirror server we now have a new mirror of
CentOS
and we still have lot of space available:
/dev/sda1 3.6T 1.8T 1.9T 49% /ftp/pub/.3
NP: Live – Lightning Crashes
Published on
September 3, 2005 in
adrian.
One of the hard drives (Maxtor 4G160J8) in my file server started producing error messages like these:
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=263867247, high=15, low=12209007, sector=263867239
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 263867239
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=263867247, high=15, low=12209007, sector=263867247
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 263867247
The disk has been replaced with a new disk and as it was part of a RAID5 there was no data lost. The best thing about the broken disk is what is written on the disk:
Mfg.Date:19APR2002
War.End:JUL05
It seems like Maxtor knows pretty good how long their disks last.
$ swapo
swapoff swapon swapout
$ man swapout
No manual entry for swapout
$ swapout --help
swapout (ftape-tools) 1.07
Usage: swapout [-V] [--version] [megabytes]
The optional parameter "megabytes" defaults to 5
$ swapout -V
swapout (ftape-tools) 1.07
$ which swapout
/usr/bin/swapout
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/swapout
file /usr/bin/swapout is not owned by any package
$ ls -la /usr/bin/swapout
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36122 Mar 28 1999 /usr/bin/swapout
$ rm -rf /usr/bin/swapout
If a file is this old and not owned by any package I probably do not need it.
NP: Beastie Boys – An Open Letter To Nyc