Re: Scheduled maintenance affecting gitmaster

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <Stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Scheduled maintenance affecting gitmaster
Date: 2011-02-14 09:39:29
Message-ID: 4D58F851.6020306@kaltenbrunner.cc
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On 02/14/2011 10:09 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 07:13, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> On 02/14/2011 01:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> Magnus Hagander<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, one of the worst-case scenarios appears to have
>>>> happened - a machine did not come back up after a reboot.
>>>> ...
>>>> We'll get back to you with more information as soon as we have it.
>>>
>>> I didn't see any followup to this?
>>
>> yeah - the hosting company managed to reboot the box for us which brought it
>> back to life in the middle of the night (with both magnus and me asleep).
>
> Indeed. But the good news is that once it came back up, the VM with
> the git server started ok :-)
>
>
>>> gitmaster seems to be responding as of now, is it safe to push?
>>
>> yes it is - however we will need to schedule another maintenance window soon
>> to finish the stuff we actually wanted to do.
>
> So, after some discussion with Stefan, we (well, I guess I) decided we
> should just go ahead and declare the maintenance window not closed
> yet, and finish off the upgrade right now :-) Given that the majority
> of our commits don't happen now, we'll hopefully have it done by the
> time the US folks wake up again.
>
> So, maintenance window again, starting now, and we'll let you know as
> soon as we're done. And we're definitely hoping for the machine to
> come back up properly this time :-)

and it did not... We are trying to figure out what the actual problem
here really is because it seems to boot just fine when powercycled just
not with a software initiated reboot.
We will notify once we have more information...

Stefan

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