technical diff
I went in to work today, sunday, in order to migrate a database server to newer hardware. It took less time than I expected, and I only had one small problem to fix afterwards. I was happy, so when I got home earlier than expected I decided to continue sysadmin duties on my home systems. Nothing I attempted at home worked.
Item #1: create a new virtual machine in vmware server. Midway thru creating a virtual disk the red fault lights appear on my mirrored raid disks where the vms are located. The ‘create disk’ task fails. A system reboot displays the scary “the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem’ error and drops the console into recovery mode. Yikes! But I’ve seen this before, and a hard power-down and restart brings the system back (apparently vmware’s ‘create virtual disk’ routine breaks the raid mirror set). I need to check if there are firmware or driver updates for my raid controller, I suppose. Maybe later.
Item #2: tried to install the newly released version 3-3.5 of cvc_linux vpn client on my fc5 laptop. The .tar.gz file isn’t a valid gzip file, and rpm barfs on the .rpm file. Both downloaded from the vendor’s website twice to make sure the download wasn’t bad. Sheesh.
‘Nuf work for the day; Suzan and I are going out to see the SuperSones (with Justin, vocals & percussion) at the Triple Door shortly and forget about stupid computers for a while.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
re #2: turns out firefox secretly unzipped the .tar.gz file without any kind of notification or removing the .gz extension. So I just renamed the file and untarred it and it built and installed successfully. Yay!