Tonight, I was using my server for a lot of various tasks when… suddenly it left the network. I did all I could to restart the networking system to no avail. I ended up having to reboot the server (safely, not forcibly). There is no reason anything that you see should be affected… but certainly let me know if there are any problems.
To my defense, I was using the machine very heavily at the time… but that is still no excuse. Plus, it’s never happened before, so needless to say, I will be investigating. Perhaps I will add a second NIC to help prevent problems like this in the future because… this server is headless (no graphics card even– I basically hooked up a keyboard and blindly typed commands). Maybe even setting up a serial console could be nice to help me to fix these issues without a reboot.
On my end… no hard drive corruption occurred– all data is fine. The only real issue I’m going to be having is figuring out everything that was running and not anticipating a reboot. This is the first major reboot since the server has been set up, so there are most likely some things I’ve forgotten to have happen on a reboot. I just have to find those things.
And for the record… the uptime was somewhere around 47 days, 5 hours.
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