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Hi Kurt, |
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The machines were working fine before they were shipped. It's possible that |
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they could have become damaged during shipment due to some rough handling. |
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It is not normal for the Itanium to be unstable -- I never had any such |
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problems. Make sure he is not trying to run X or do anything weird, because |
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the NVIDIA drivers and/or AGP on the Itanium definitely *are* unstable under |
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Linux. But the machine should be stable without X running. |
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It would also be a good idea to open it up and make sure that everything |
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(fans, RAM, etc.) is seated and functioning properly as things could have |
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gotten loosened up during transit. The Sparc never had problems, so I |
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imagine the hard drive died during shipping? |
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The AMD64 box should boot fine as well. If it stalls during start-up, just |
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boot in runlevel 1 and remove the nfs mounts from /etc/fstab. |
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It's hard to imagine that all three machines got injured during shipment. |
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They were always stable over here. |
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I have the receipts from UPS, and I believe I had a total of $14,000 of |
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insurance on the boxes ($10K for the Itanium 2 and $4K or so for the |
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Sparc64/AMD64 box.) If UPS needs to be contacted, I can do that. |
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Daniel |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:klieber@g.o] |
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> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:40 PM |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Cc: polvi@g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-trustees] releng machines |
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> Update on the releng machines. Apparently, they are being |
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> very flakey. |
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> The itanium boots ~50% of the time and is very unstable. The |
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> Sparc64 seems to be having issues seeing its IDE drive. The |
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> AMD wasn't booting for some reason as well, though Alex seems |
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> to have some hope for that. |
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> Anyway, whomever is taking over these boxes can contact Alex Polvi |
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> (polvi@g.o) regarding getting them operational. |
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> --kurt |
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