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December 21, 2011

Server Reboot Today at 3:45 pm

I'm going to be rebooting the main server (ms.mcmaster.ca) today at 3:45 pm; sorry for the short notice.  Things will be down for five minutes or so.

February 23, 2011

Web Site Interruptions

The web sites hosted on ms.mcmaster.ca (most notably www.math.mcmaster.ca) will be down for up to a few minutes at a time Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I will be experimenting with some configuration changes which will make it easier for us to keep the web sites up during maintenance and after system problems.

February 1, 2010

Computing News - Server Problems; Printing; Server Upgrade

The following was sent to all department members on February 1st.



We had a server failure early this morning and are running with only one server instead of the usual two. Updates and more information are available on the Computing News blog:
http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/blogs/computing_news/

In particular, see:

Other items of general interest follow.

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February 20, 2009

Workstation Access Restored

Workstation access is restored. That's the end of today's power-related problems.

Unexpected Server Reboot Friday Morning

The primary servers and several group/compute servers rebooted unexpectedly at 9:10 this morning. The only commonality is that they are all on the same battery backup unit. We are investigating.

July 5, 2005

New FAQ Entry: Resetting KDE and Gnome Settings

Gnome and KDE settings can get screwed up enough that you can't run these desktops usefully. The recent power failure seems to have triggered a few configuration mess ups. Instructions for returning to the default KDE and Gnome settings are posted on the FAQ page.

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