Frustration is spelled …
Thursday, October 26th, 2006… H A R D D R I V E F A I L U R E
3 days ago, the linux box that has served me so well for years decided that it needed a lot of attention. So it stopped working. Then while trying to figure out what it was doing one of my two old hard drives (8 Gigs, really big when I bought it) started going ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk. Those are not good sounds coming from a hard drive. This was amplified by the sounds of my power supply fan screeching from time to time.
The good news is that it did not hold any of my personal files. The bad news is that it did hold most of the /usr directory tree for linux. For those of you who don’t know, that is basically all of the functioning files.
I’ve ordered a new hard drive and a new power supply. I do not want to wait until the other more important drive starts going ka-thunk, ka-thunk. And I’ve been trying to get a basic linux server back up and running until that arrives when I will do a good clean install.
It took a full day to realize that the kernel that Ubuntu was wanting to install did not like my older CPU. That came this morning when I finally asked for help. Email is working, the web server is working. My wordpress is working. But my mailing lists are not working. I have already started to get emails from family members who are wondering what is happening.
I don’t know. Somehow I can’t get exim4 to talk with mailman even though I have read through every possible help message or FAQ I could find on the subject. Right now I will sleep. I won’t have a chance to get back to messing with it until later tomorrow.
Sometimes that is how it goes.
Good thing the first thing I am doing tomorrow is talking with my counselor.
