Odd failure last night, anyone else?

[teddy mills]

Hi Madi,

I help run a DC with about 300 linux servers. We had nada.




Madison Kelly wrote:
> This is a long shot, but last night, within the span of about four or 
> five hours, I had four independent systems fail in one form or another. 
> Did anyone else have any failures last night?
> 
> On the first, the keyboard totally freaked out and wasn't fixed by a 
> reboot. It's still messed
> 
> On the second, the wireless dropped and wouldn't come back on until the 
> machine was powered off.
> 
> On the third, the network switch locked up and four of the eight 
> machines on the network went down. One was frozen so hard it needed a 
> cold boot. The other three's interfaces wouldn't get an IP. Even 
> manually assigning IPs didn't help and all needed to be power cycled 
> before they'd pick up IPs again.
> 
> In the forth case, a Xen server kernel panic'ed and rebooted.
> 
> This all happened between about midnight and 4am. Anyone else have any 
> problems around that time? These four machines are all independent and 
> half were in Oakville and half were in Toronto.
> 
> Solar flare? Gremlins? Dumb luck?
> 
> Madi
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