Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 13:55 +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > There weren't many choices in 2001 or 2002 when I was > looking into it. Do you have any suggestions on one > that might be particularly useful? It doesn't have to > be terribly fancy, just enough so you can get a shell > and 'fix things'. I us

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-08 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:03:48PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: > > > Sent from my Motorola Xoom > On Apr 7, 2012 5:44 AM, "Dale Amon" wrote: > > At one point I tried to build a 'special' statically > > linked ssh... an effort that didn't work out... with > > the idea of havi

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Loftis
Sent from my Motorola Xoom On Apr 7, 2012 5:44 AM, "Dale Amon" wrote: > At one point I tried to build a 'special' statically > linked ssh... an effort that didn't work out... with > the idea of having it available on some port as an > emergency backdoor for sysadmins that cam

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 05:44:53PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/975985 > since I also would find it welcome. Thank you! Your name will be blessed by many high wizards from their fortress sysadmin keeps! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mail

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:53:05AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > > 1 A pet peeve of mine: a long time ago when I > > hand rolled critical systems out of linux, I had ssh come > > up almost before anything else. I consider it a bug that

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:04:41PM -0700, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On 04/06/2012 06:53 PM, Dale Amon wrote: > >Did a whole bunch of 'Precise' updates that showed up today > >and on reboot the server is continuously printing: > > > >Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 > >end_request I/O

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > sshd is started as soon as all filesystems are mounted, which I can tell > you is considerably earlier than it used to be started! I'm not going > to change it for precise now, but it'd probably be possible to start it > as soon as al

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:53:05AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > 1 A pet peeve of mine: a long time ago when I > hand rolled critical systems out of linux, I had ssh come > up almost before anything else. I consider it a bug that > it is delayed so long in the boot process, as do some > other h

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-06 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On 04/06/2012 06:53 PM, Dale Amon wrote: Did a whole bunch of 'Precise' updates that showed up today and on reboot the server is continuously printing: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 It comes up to where I can get an ssh session after ab