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The server was continuing to do weird things so I did some more research. The mysqld service was randomly crashing because of an out of memory error, even though the damned server has 2GB of RAM and plenty to spare when the crash occurred. Hunted around a bit and found that some other people (like 2) were having a similar issue, and it was seemingly related to a failed swap partition. Looked at my config and sure enough: swap was not loading. Something to do with the GUID of the partition changing and fstab not changing to match it. That’s been fixed and swap is loading now.

After all that, I found out that mysqld was not initializing properly on boot. I have no idea why, because the fu–ing syslog says it’s starting and there are no errors anywhere, but mysql status says its not running. Created a startup script and popped it where it’s supposed to go and now it loads. Again, still nothing in the log to show my new script is running. This page was a great deal of help in creating the startup script.

Lets see what else this stupid server has in store for me.

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Sorry about the server problems folks. Either someone is playing a game of “Denial Of Service” on me, or the Inanis.net webserver has hardware issues.

The hardware will be replaced shortly.

UPDATE:

#define EPIPE           32 /* Broken pipe */

A process gets EPIPE when it tries to write to a pipe (or socket) when the process at the other end has closed the connection.

Bad network card? Bad network equipment between the server and the Internet? More things to look into.

UPDATE 2: Server hardware replaced. Seems much faster and more stable now, but I think there is a firewall and/or switch issue causing dropped connections to the server. This is somewhat out of my control but I will stay on top of it…

Voyager 2 has to be one of the most amazing pieces of technology ever built. Launched over 30 years ago, the thing is still operational, responsive, and sending back data about the farthest outer reaches of our solar system.

It brings a warm feeling to my heart; technology that was created in a time when engineering was more about getting it right and less about doing it in a monetarily efficient way.

Float on, little Voyager.

Read about it.

I told you about it before, but I am too excited for words. Here’s something better than human speech…

More pictures and a Museum entry as time allows…