Server locked up

[exxos]

At least your server booted after this. My one has GRUB deciding that it can't read XFS filesystems any more and hence can't load Stage 2. *sigh*

Painful

The main stuff here is backed up every hour. So if the server died, stuff could be rescued. Though it's why I am making a disk backup later. If the system drive died, it can be restored and then SQL database etc dumped on afterwards. I still need to find a way to backup the full disk backup yet though

[stephen_usher]

I rsync all my disks overnight, so again the data's not a problem. Just booting the system is!

[exxos]

As a reminder the forum will be going down about 8pm UK time .

The forum will be totally off-line for a hour at least. I suspect an hour and a half or thereabouts. This is while I just make a clone of the system disk.

[PhilC]

[exxos]

We done it seems now. Thought it took longer last time

[exxos]

Having some problems with the server this morning

All I did was export the SQL database, it got part way through Export, then MSQL totally locks up was churning out GB's of data in the error log.

I had a right old time to reboot the server just. But it seems to be running again fine. I'm not sure why its acting up.

It's possible we could be up and down while I try and figure out what is going on.

[exxos]

I figured it out sort of. It seems older versions of phpmyadmin no longer work right I really hate the later ones but looks like I'm forced to use them now

[exxos]

Apologies for the unexpected downtime. It seems a kernel update had gone bad and the server could not even boot up any more

Thankfully Ramnode's support is as always outstanding, they did some sort of recovery on my disc and got it working again! it was down for the past hour because I was doing a full disk backup.

Thanks for playing Ubuntu servers

The only odd thing is I get this on the server console..

Failed to connect to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts. Check your Internet connection or proxy settings

Not sure if anyone has any ideas why that is happening ?

The backup stopped working yesterday morning which was why I rebooted the server in the first place. Backups are working now but that was some sort of connection problem as well

Doing "sudo apt update" works, so no idea what that one thing seems to be broken still.

[derkom]

Failed to connect to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts. Check your Internet connection or proxy settings

This is just Ubuntu trying to fetch update info to stuff into the motd. There could be any number of reasons that the network wasn't up/reachable when it tried to do that on boot. As long as you do have a network connection later (which clearly you do), you can safely ignore this.

[exxos]

This is just Ubuntu trying to fetch update info to stuff into the motd. There could be any number of reasons that the network wasn't up/reachable when it tried to do that on boot. As long as you do have a network connection later (which clearly you do), you can safely ignore this.

Cool thanks. There's 14 more updates to apply had enough drama for one week. I think even Ubuntu server is going downhill these days . Stuff just seems to be randomly breaking or not working right

All seems to stem from exporting the database in phpmyadmin, something's changed on the server and it locks up creating a GB every couple of seconds in SQL errors. Bonkers.

BTW does anyone know if there is something like FileZilla which can run on a server but control rsync easier ? It be far easier if there was some basic gui for rsync , kinda like how FileZilla works with local and remote folders easy selectable for backup or restore. Would have to be work from the commandline though..