diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'issues')
| -rw-r--r-- | issues/systems/tux04-disk-issues.gmi | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/issues/systems/tux04-disk-issues.gmi b/issues/systems/tux04-disk-issues.gmi index e5872ad..d9a0fc0 100644 --- a/issues/systems/tux04-disk-issues.gmi +++ b/issues/systems/tux04-disk-issues.gmi @@ -309,3 +309,36 @@ dd if=./test of=/dev/zero bs=512k count=2048 smartctl -a /dev/sdd -d megaraid,0 RAID Controller in SL 3: Dell PERC H755N Front + +# The story continues + +I don't know what happened but the server gave a hard +error in the logs: + +``` +racadm getsel # get system log +Record: 340 +Date/Time: 05/31/2025 09:25:17 +Source: system +Severity: Critical +Description: A high-severity issue has occurred at the Power-On +Self-Test (POST) phase which has resulted in the system BIOS to +abruptly stop functioning. +``` + +Woops! I fixed it by resetting idrac and rebooting remotely. Nasty. + +Looking around I found this link + +=> +https://tomaskalabis.com/wordpress/a-high-severity-issue-has-occurred-at-the-power-on-self-te +st-post-phase-which-has-resulted-in-the-system-bios-to-abruptly-stop-functioning/ + +suggesting we should upgrade idrac firmware. I am not going to do that +without backups and a fully up-to-date fallback online. It may fix the +other hardware issues we have been seeing (who knows?). + +Fred, the boot sequence is not perfect yet. Turned out the network +interfaces do not come up in the right order and nginx failed because +of a missing /var/run/nginx. The container would not restart because - +missing above - it could not check the certificates. |