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Title: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Failure on September 17, 2004, 08:18:01 PM
Ivan (what was left of it) rolled on through my area last night, knocking out power for about three hours from 10:00 to 1:00am.  I was working on the 3000UX at the time (stupid!) and compilation was ongoing when everything cut off.  I turned off the switch before going to sleep, and this morning turned it on....and fsck failed, manual intervention required :-(

I guess when I get back I will do the ol "fsck -y and cross fingers" thing.  Failing that -- reinstall!!

Unfortunately the gcc 2.7.2.3, apache, and a couple others have not been moved off the machine yet.  That is a couple days of compiling lost if I can't recover it.

Bummer :-(
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Targhan on September 17, 2004, 08:36:13 PM
We made it through Ivan here as well.  Went a couple of days without power, and had to leave home for a while too.

Redrumloa/Wayne:

did you guys pull through?
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Ivan on September 17, 2004, 08:41:52 PM
MUAHAHAH! I'm not through with any of you yet!


What the heck, everyone curses me for what the storm does anyway, i may as well play it out. :)
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: redrumloa on September 17, 2004, 09:05:52 PM
@Targhan

Yeah Ivan hit the pan handle of FL, didn't touch us down here.

How did you fare?
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: HopperJF on September 17, 2004, 11:06:26 PM
Using a computer when there is a storm - stupid

I hope you learned your lesson! :-P
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: KennyR on September 17, 2004, 11:13:49 PM
One of the biggest storms to hit inland SE USA this decade is on its way, what do you do? Do you:

a) Drive away and sweat it out somewhere safely out of reach?

b) Hide in a shelter and panic?

c) Pray to the Almighty?

d) Build Unix?
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: seer on September 17, 2004, 11:16:09 PM
@KennyR

You forgot

e) Stay and try to see and film the biggest storm for whatever reason you can think of.
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: seer on September 17, 2004, 11:17:13 PM
@Red,

Glad you're ok. Seems you got luckky then again right ? Wasn't there another comming your way again ?

(Edit; just to note, I'm glad Targhan is ok as well.. No news from Wayne yet ?)
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: KennyR on September 17, 2004, 11:20:34 PM
I just mean it was truly insane to try to build Unix with the hurricane roaring outside.

















(A sane man would have built BSD instead.)
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: seer on September 17, 2004, 11:45:25 PM
@KennyR

:lol:

Ok, I see.  :-)
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Failure on September 18, 2004, 12:11:43 AM
It's AALLIIIIIVEEE!  It just needed a good fscking.

What me, learn a lesson?  Heck no!  It just shows how hardcore I am!!

But I did hook it to the rackmount UPS I have in there.  Don't know why I didn't do that before.  I don't reckon power outages will be an issue now.
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Targhan on September 18, 2004, 04:12:28 PM
We managed to pull through okay, just lost power for a day and a half or so.  (Didn't use the computer during the hurricane, :lol:).
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: on September 18, 2004, 04:18:40 PM
Essentially the worst we got was all three local TV stations pre-empting everything all day long to tell us;

1) It's raining outside
2) You should stay inside
3) You should keep watching our reporting of the rain
4) If you don't, you'll probably die.

You just gotta love local news channels.  Glad to hear Targhan's OK.

Wayne
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: X-ray on September 18, 2004, 04:25:31 PM
Did AO go down again today? I couldn't access it at 12.30 GMT today.
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Karlos on September 18, 2004, 04:26:42 PM
@Kenny

:roflmao:

Well put :-D
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: dammy on September 18, 2004, 04:29:47 PM
I'll trade!  I went without power for 10 days from Frances.

Dammy
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Targhan on September 19, 2004, 05:52:49 AM
Thanks Wayne & Red.  Maybe if we're lucky Jeane will turn back out towards the Atlantic...

Oh yeah, great wind by AU against LSU today! :-D
Title: Re: Fsck Ivan!
Post by: Targhan on September 19, 2004, 05:53:22 AM
@dammy OUCH!