| date | problem | duration | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Aug 12 | Hardware failure | 1h | The system disk was not detected anymore, due to a SATA cable failure. |
| 2021 May 06 | ADSL Modem upgrade | 1h | Upgraded the Freebox v6 Revolution to a Delta S, fro a slight gain in performance |
| 2021 Mar 07 | Major OS upgrade | 4h |
After nearly 20 years running with incrementally upgraded Debian 32 bit
versions, now is the time for a big step: Switching to Debian (v10.8) 64 bits!
I installed a new version from scratch and rebuild by hand all the services,
to clean all the cruft that has been accumulated along the years, only
re-installing the packages I actually use. As I now use an externally hosted
VM for my public sites ( e.g:
colas.nahaboo.net), a lot of things
are now unused on this server that is now used mostly for internal uses.
And I upgraded the RAM from 8G to 32G. |
| 2020 Nov 25 | Hardware upgrade | 5mn | Replaced a pre-failing HD with a SSD |
| 2020 Mar 29 | OS upgrade | 30mn | Upgrade from Debian 9 Squeeze to Debian 10 Buster |
| 2019 Jan 14 | Hardware failure | 2h | Built-in ethernet card failed, replaced by a PCI one |
| 2016 Aug 25 | Hardware upgrade | 5mn | Built-in ethernet card seemed flaky, replaced by a PCIe one |
| 2015 Dec 13 | Hardware failure | 10mn | System disk not responding. Was a bad contact in the cable |
| 2015 Nov 19 | Power down | 6h | Electricity was down a short time, but the server network failed on unattended restart due to some DHCP issue with the ADSL box. |
| 2014 Jul 16 | Phone line failure | 10h | Wall phone socket died... |
| 2014 Mar 11 | Hardware upgrade | 3h | CPU, RAM, Disk massive upgrade |
| 2013 Aug 12 | OS upgrade | 10mn | To Debian v7.0 Wheezy |
| 2012 Jan 26 | ADSL Upgrade | 1h | From the Freebox v5 to the Freebox v6 |
| 2011 May 24 | ADSL Down | 17h | Phone line was down 2011-05-24 13h30 to 2011-05-25 06h00 |
| 2011 Fev 19 | Kernel upgrade | 2h | As part of upgrade to Debian 6.0 "squeeze" |
| 2010 Jun 06 | Kernel upgrade | 5mn | |
| 2009 Dec 29 | ADSL Down | 13h | ISP(Free) major routing problems, 21h50 to 10h50 |
| 2009 Oct 03 | Kernel upgrade | 5mn | |
| 2009 Aug 17 | ADSL Down | 3h | ISP(Free) server problems, 18h to 21h |
| 2009 Feb 15 | OS Upgrade | 1mn | Upgraded to the new Debian 5.0, "Lenny". |
| 2008 Dec 06 | Hardware upgrade | 30mn | Memory bars came back from warranty, installed back. Upgraded to 4GB RAM. |
| 2008 Oct 01 | Hardware failure | 8 hours | A Memory bar failed (OCZ) and froze the server. removed at 8h00 on Oct 02. |
| 2008 Sep 28 | Hardware upgrade | 2h | Upgraded to an Intel Core 2 duo E8400 (3G), 2G ram, Gigabyte EG43m-SH2 motherboard, AHCI activated. |
| 2008 Sep 09 | Hardware failure | 3 days | Power supply failed as I was away from home. It was my mistake: I mistakenly left a mediocre power supply brand (Silverstone) in the server, thinking I had upgraded it with the fabulous Seasonic ones, like all my other machines ;-( Down from 2008-09-08.10:23 to 2008-09-12.13:45 |
| 2008 Sep 04 | ADSL Down | 2h23 | My France Telecom phone line went down, cutting my ADSL access... From 08h51 to 11h14 |
| 2008 Aug 27 | ADSL Down | 22h | My France Telecom phone line went down, cutting my ADSL access... From 2008-08-27.15:11 to 2008-08-28.12:53 |
| 2008 Jul 12 | Hardware upgrade | 20h | Upgraded to 4x 640G SATAII Samsung disks (2 platters each to reduce vibrations), and had to change the Motherboard to an Asrock 939N68PV-GLAN to be able to use them. Had to use a development debian kernel (2.6.25) to handle the chipset, though, as the standard 2.6.18 saw only the first disk. |
| 2008 May 18 | Hardware upgrade | 6h | Upgraded to an AMD64 3500 CPU, 2G Ram, gigabit ethernet, with tthe samw 4x 400G Hitacgi IDE disks. Upgrade went bad, took me time to detect the cause (a bad IDE disk cable). Then had some isssues on how to configure the gigabit network card. |
| 2007 Nov 01 | Kernel upgrade | 2h | Upgraded to debian Etch with standard kernel. Had to battle as my motherboard was too old to support grub, reverted to lilo. |
| 2007 Oct 09 | Hardware failure | 10mn | Spare network card failed (D-Link DFE-530TX). replaced with another spare. |
| 2007 Oct 05 | Modem upgrade | 10mn | Migration from Freebox v3 to freebox v5 HD. |
| 2007 Sep 13 | ADSL down | 10mn | No more ADSL. Had to hard reboot the modem. Outage from 09h08 to 09h18 |
| 2007 Sep 12 | ADSL down | 20mn | No more ADSL. Had to hard reboot the modem. Outage from 09h18 to 09h40 |
| 2007 Jul 09 | ADSL down | 2h | No more ADSL. Had to hard reboot the modem. Outage from 05h48 to 08h00 |
| 2007 Apr 23 | ADSL down | 36h | Hardware problem at my Free DSLAM, ADSL down from 2007-04-23 15h45 to 2007-04-25 09h00 |
| 2007 Apr 03 | UPS died | 2h30 | Power outage due to the ... UPS that died (after 5 1/2 years of use). Down from 17h00 to 19h40 |
| 2007 Jan 08 | Hardware crash | 6h30 | Machine crashed at 02h30. Restarted at 09h00. Unknown cause (bad RAM? bad block in swap?) |
| 2006 Dec 31 | DSN server problems | 3h | dnsmasq was down this morning. I set up a cron job to restart it everyday to prevent this to happen again |
| 2006 Dec 17 | Hardware upgrade | 15mn | Power supply (LC Power with 14cm fan) was noisy. Changed to a Seasonic S12 500W |
| 2006 Dec 11 | DSN server problems | 1h | The dnsmasq I was using as LAN DNS server misbehaved suddenly. Turned out the Debian stable (sarge) version, 2.22 has some bugs, especially with Windows clients, had to switch to 2.35 |
| 2006 Dec 08 | Power failure | 3h | Due to big storms, lots of electric failures, total downtime: 3 hours. |
| 2006 Dec 05 | ADSL modem reboot | 5mn | ADSL was super slow, and tracroute showed that it was close to the modem. Rebooted the freebox and everything was back to normal |
| 2005 Jan 18 | ADSL disconnection | 15mn | paquets werent routed. a freebox reboot fixed it (or it was repaired at the same time) |
| 2005 Jan 06 | ADSL disconnection | 36h | ADSL was cut Friday 14:00 and came back in a crippled way (slower) Saturday 7th, 20:00. Full speed was resumed on Tue 10th morning. I now use Free's "freebox" V4 model |
| 2005 Nov 29 | ADSL disconnection | 10 days | On Wed Nov 29th, no more ADSL! It was a strange problem, that puzzled the ISP. Fortunately (but perhaps the bug was due to some preparation of this move), On Dec 6th I was notified by Free that I was being "Degrouped", and miracle! on Fri Dec 9th I was back with adsl access with a better connection (no more France Telecom messing with my packets), at 4000/1000 bps in dl/ul with Free. My IP address changed also in the process. |
| 2005 Sep 07 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | to 2.4.31 |
| 2005 Aug 29 | Debian upgrade | 1h | To the new "stable" debian, aka "sarge" instead of "woody" |
| 2005 Mar 22 | Hardware Maintainance | 10mn | CPU was a bit hot (48C), I removed the old pad and put thermal compound to gain nearly 10C |
| 2005 Mar 17 | Hardware + kernel upgrade | 2h | Upgraded to an used Motherboard (ASUS TUSL2-C) + CPU (celeron 1.3Ghz), still the same 512M ram (the max of what is supported by the MB). Kernel upgraded to 2.4.29. |
| 2004 Nov 21 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | to 2.4.28 |
| 2004 Oct 19 | Disk upgrade | 1/2h | added one Hitachi 160g IDE (gained by reorganizing backups). |
| 2004 Oct 17 | Disk upgrade | 4h | upgrade: 4 Seagate 160g -> 3 Hitachi 400g IDE. I recommend using the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To. |
| 2004 Oct 16 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | To 2.4.27. Uses now ext3 journal on disks. |
| 2004 Sep 15 | Disk failure | 3h | A disk failed (non-recoverable bad block) on a 160G seagate 7002.7, freezing the machine. Disk (hdb, /temp3) replaced by a 160G hitachi. Down 6h45 -> 9h45. Actually I could recover the disk thanks to smartmontools, a mandatory read! |
| 2004 Jul 14 | Crash | 1h | Secondary IDE controler was in error, why? (I guess it was the bad blocks in an inode table on a disk, see above) Down 6h30->7h30. |
| 2004 May 01 | Kernel upgrade | 1h | to install lm-sensors-2.8.6 & i2c-2.8.4 for temperature monitoring |
| 2004 Apr 25 | Kernel upgrade | 1h | to 2.4.26, (from 2.2.20) but still in debian stable (to try to get rid of hardware crahses) - it worked! The previous "Hardware Crash" were thus software crashes due to the 2.2 kernel on large partitions. |
| 2004 Apr 13 | Hardware Crash | 1h | Kernel panic. |
| 2004 Apr 10 | Hardware Crash | 30mn | Kernel panic. |
| 2004 Mar 28 | Hardware Crash | 1h | Unexplained linux kernel crash (18h->19h)... either the motherboard is growing old, or the overclock is troublesome with 4 disks, or the power supply is flaky. I supressed the overclock, we'll see. |
| 2004 Mar 26 | Hardware Crash | 1h | Disk#4 failed. Some rest brought it back up again |
| 2004 Mar 15 | Hardware Crash | 4h | Unexplained linux kernel crash :-( |
| 2004 Mar 09 | ADSL upgrade | 3mn | Free upgraded my line to 1024/128 |
| 2004 Feb 25 | Crash | 20mn | Experimenting with samba to read windows disks failed |
| 2004 Feb 23 | Disk upgrade | 3h | upgrade: 2 -> 4 Seagate barracuda 7200.7 160g, and new case: antec sonata + antec power supply |
| 2003 Sep 14 | Reboot | 15mn | Malfunctioning printer made the server freeze. |
| 2003 Jun 21 | Disk upgrade | 4h | 2 x Seagate barracuda IV 80g -> 2 x Seagate barracuda 7200.7 160g |
| 2003 May 15 | ADSL down | 9h | France Telecom messed with their DSLAM: down from 03h36 to 14h47 |
| 2003 Apr 19 | ISP Switch | 1s | I now use Free.fr for my ADSL access, with a fixed IP. |
| 2003 Mar 27 | Hardware problem | 9h | The power supply died in the night (01h30). Replaced (by a full-scale model, not the puny barebones model used before). Back up at 10h30. |
| 2003 Mar 6 | Move | 2h | I moved home in a new house, but downtime was minimal. |
| 2002 Jul 24 | ADSL problem | 4h | Regional ADSL down from 10h to 12h. |
| 2002 Jul 21 | Reboot | 2mn | Failed attempt at hacking USB on my 2.2 for a device supported in 2.4 froze the kernel. |
| 2002 Feb 24 | DNS problem | 10h | Wanadoo DNS servers down (again) from 4h00 to 16h00 |
| 2002 Feb 22 | TC setup | 1mn |
Setting up IP traffic control via TBF to avoid choking the
ADSL modem with outbound traffic. Used info from
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO.
Reboot just to be sure to have a clean IP stack after a lot of tweaking.
For those interested, the magic command for sustaining full simultaneous
upload and download on netissimo 1 is: tc qdisc add dev ppp0 root tbf rate 15kbps latency 30ms burst 1504 See also: lartc.org |
| 2002 Feb 09 | Disk firmware upgrade | 25mn | Reboot (in DOS) to fix the noise that plagued my Seagate Barracuda ATA IV disks with the smscan utility. From 16h16 to 16h41. |
| 2002 Feb 08 | ADSL problem | 1h15 | Regional ATM backbone down, from 12h45 to 15h03 |
| 2001 Dec 16 | Kernel upgrade | 2h |
Hardware maintainance: Harddisks put into a grounded custom-built
aluminium rack
with ventilation tubes, rolled into automobile phonic foam, with a fan at
the end: no more vibrations (not fixed to case), 5 degrees colder, and
absolutely no noise (case was transmitting vibrations before).
Flex factor case was ripped of the (now useless) floppy drive and the
disk racks.
Downtime: 13h30 to 15h30.
Added an InfraRed receiver (ASUS) + kernel support (hence recompilation) |
| 2001 Dec 04 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | Kernel upgrade (add scsi subsystem for tests of usb disk) |
| 2001 Dec 02 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | Kernel upgrade to 2.2.20 |
| 2001 Nov 30 | Disk upgrade | 5mn | IBM 60g -> 2 x Seagate barracuda IV 80g |
| 2001 Nov 29 | ADSL problem | 4h30 | Wanadoo disconnection, from Nov 28 20:35 to Nov 29 01:01 |
| 2001 Nov 3 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | recompilation to add QoS modules for traffic control (23h50) |
| 2001 Sep 12 | ADSL problem | 4h | Modem was disconnected and could not reconnect to ISP (Wanadoo), although line sync was Ok. A manual reboot of the modem fixed it. Script checking connection enhanced to force reboot in this case. |
| 2001 Sep 1 | UPS install | 1h | Installation of a MGE UPS ellipse (Onduleur). Downtime: 10h25 to 11h25. |
| 2001 Aug 22 | Kernel upgrade | 2mn | reconfiguration of the kernel to get sound (08h30) |
| 2001 Aug 21 | DNS problem | 4h | IP changed, but a bug in my dynamic DNS updater to hn.org failed to update the DNS of nahaboo.org from 05h00 to 09h00 |
| 2001 Aug 10 | Memory upgrade | 32mn | 256 M => 512 M (in 2 dimms) |
| 2001 Aug 01 | Reboot | 17mn | unrelated electrical work in the house (new fridge :-) |
| 2001 Jul 30 | Web Server starts | - | as nahaboo.org |
| 2001 Jul 26 | Disk upgrade | 21h | IBM 40g -> IBM 60g (60GXP) |
| 2001 May 31 | Server online | - | on ADSL, only client at first, no inbound connections allowed. Server is a Celeron 800 (overclocked by 12%), with an ATX Flex form factor motherboard (ASUS CUSI-FX), and a small Flex case. OS is a stable (2.2 potato) Debian Linux system. |