Podcast interview

2019-05-04 Thread Patrick Diehl
Hi, I am to co-host of the FLOSS for Science podcast [0], the podcast about Free and Libre Open Source Software for Science. We heard that scientific linux will be replaced by cent os. Would anyone of you be interested to talk with us about the scientific linux project and why you made this decis

RE: Can't reboot after latest updates (maybe solved)

2019-05-04 Thread Bill Maidment
Well the hard reboot has got the server running OK. The logs show that a backup drive was at 100% full halfway through a backup in April. This went unnoticed until the reboot. Somehow the drive seemed to remain in an unstable state, which the hard reboot cleared. Cheers Bill -Original mess

Re: Can't reboot after latest updates

2019-05-04 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, I don't know this one, but my first inclination would be to modify your grub boot. Remove the bits that you don't absolutely need (eg: quiet) and add rd.break to get in as root. If that works, maybe you can explore the issue a bit more. If not, maybe something in the messages on the scr

RE: Can't reboot after latest updates

2019-05-04 Thread Bill Maidment
Correction. Every 2 minutes, not every 2 seconds. I've advised my colleague to try a hard reboot to see if that gets us out of trouble. -Original message- > From:Bill Maidment > Sent: Saturday 4th May 2019 18:16 > To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV > Subject: Can't reboot after latest

Can't reboot after latest updates

2019-05-04 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi Today, a colleague ran yum update on our SL7.6 server and after reboot the server refuses to start with the following message every 2 seconds: System Journal ID 20156 – failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message. Transport endpoint is not connected. Any ideas how to fix this. Google sho