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mdlbear...that's a hardware problem.
CPU fans are another matter. So after a delightful lunch yesterday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flower_cat* (see footnote), I set out to do the long-delayed upgrade of my fileserver from RedHat 6.2 to 7.3.
I had prepared in advance by doing much of the installation and configuration on another machine, and
A quick poke at the CPU fan showed that it was, in fact, a dead fan. I turned the machine off, burned my finger on the heat sink trying to remove it, and headed off to Central Computers for a new fan. They close at 6:00pm on Saturday. It was now 6:20. So it's off to Fry's. It's getting a little hard to find fans for Socket 7.
When I got home, the computer was still on. Could have sworn I'd turned it off, but... It took about an hour to cool down. Luckily the CPU hadn't yet cooked itself; it rebooted just fine with the new fan. But not into RedHat 7.3.
A couple more reconfigure/reboot attempts later, I decided that I wasn't going to get anywhere, and just did a clean re-install after saving a copy of
By that time it was getting close to midnight, so I rebooted back into 6.2 and restarted the dialup machine so that there would be mail and news in the morning. I now have most of the reconfiguration done, but there are people running Linux at the moment so I can't reboot and finish the job. (The whole idea of this exercise is to upgrade the server without inconveniencing the users: they're my family, after all, so they know where I sleep.)
So now I'm approximately where I was 28 hours ago, except that now I have a CPU fan that won't die on me, and an install of RedHat 7.3 that I know will work.
* We ate at the Left Bank in Santana Row. The entire meal consisted of deserts, appetizers and side dishes: she had a double espresso, french onion soup (they do it right, of course) and a cheese fondue that included Roquefort in its ingredients; I had double capuccino, grilled sardines with tapenade (served on toast and a bed of raw spinach) and spinach sauteed with butter and roasted garlic. For dessert we split a lemon torte, which came with a crème brulée crust. Very tasty. We ate in the sidewalk café section, so the people-watching was good, too.
CPU fans are another matter. So after a delightful lunch yesterday with
flower_cat* (see footnote), I set out to do the long-delayed upgrade of my fileserver from RedHat 6.2 to 7.3. I had prepared in advance by doing much of the installation and configuration on another machine, and
tar'ing the code over to an empty partition on nova, the fileserver. Unfortunately, the first machine had IDE drives but nova has SCSI. I was never able to get lilo to boot it properly, despite several attempts at rebuilding the initial RAMdisk with mkinitrd. Shortly after yet another unsuccessful reboot the MB started crying plaintively, and the error message at boot time indicated that the CPU was too hot.A quick poke at the CPU fan showed that it was, in fact, a dead fan. I turned the machine off, burned my finger on the heat sink trying to remove it, and headed off to Central Computers for a new fan. They close at 6:00pm on Saturday. It was now 6:20. So it's off to Fry's. It's getting a little hard to find fans for Socket 7.
When I got home, the computer was still on. Could have sworn I'd turned it off, but... It took about an hour to cool down. Luckily the CPU hadn't yet cooked itself; it rebooted just fine with the new fan. But not into RedHat 7.3.
A couple more reconfigure/reboot attempts later, I decided that I wasn't going to get anywhere, and just did a clean re-install after saving a copy of
/etc to a partition I wasn't planning to zap.By that time it was getting close to midnight, so I rebooted back into 6.2 and restarted the dialup machine so that there would be mail and news in the morning. I now have most of the reconfiguration done, but there are people running Linux at the moment so I can't reboot and finish the job. (The whole idea of this exercise is to upgrade the server without inconveniencing the users: they're my family, after all, so they know where I sleep.)
So now I'm approximately where I was 28 hours ago, except that now I have a CPU fan that won't die on me, and an install of RedHat 7.3 that I know will work.
* We ate at the Left Bank in Santana Row. The entire meal consisted of deserts, appetizers and side dishes: she had a double espresso, french onion soup (they do it right, of course) and a cheese fondue that included Roquefort in its ingredients; I had double capuccino, grilled sardines with tapenade (served on toast and a bed of raw spinach) and spinach sauteed with butter and roasted garlic. For dessert we split a lemon torte, which came with a crème brulée crust. Very tasty. We ate in the sidewalk café section, so the people-watching was good, too.
