Odd failure last night, anyone else?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:24:00PM -0500, 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?

My wife's ipod shuffle died (it went pop and was dead).  Fortunately she
has a small pile of spares to move onto.

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Len Sorensen
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