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More server news.

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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.

Ubuntu is my new love

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I decided to install Ubutnu 8.04 on The-Beast as a test.

The video card was an issue (as always in Ubuntu for some reason), but I got that fixed. Everything else works perfectly fine. Audio and everything. SMB shares. It’s neato.

My favorite feature: the compositing engine. Vista style features with better responsiveness. Doesn’t play SimCity 4 . .maybe . . dunno.

Let’s play with this and see where it goes.

Inanis.net Server Upgrade

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Had some extra hardware come into my possession, so I upgraded the Inanis.net server today. Upgraded the Athlon XP 1700+ to a 2800+, bumped it up to 1GB RAM, doubled the Hard Drive to 80GB and replaced the motherboard (or mobo, to the geeks). I had planned on putting the new CPU and RAM in the original mobo, but I found out the old mobo had a couple of capacitors that were starting to puff up, so I went full tilt. This upgrade was much easier than the last one I did. I used CloneZilla to copy the Hard Drive, and brought the new machine up beside the old one, to reduce downtime. I got the X Server configured correctly and made sure the network card worked properly (which, this time, was not an issue, not like last time), then switched the box over. Total downtime: about 10 minutes.

Life goes on.

Setting Up Pretty Permalinks In WordPress 2.5.1 and Ubuntu 7

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Cause I’ll forget later

  • Install WordPress
  • Get Shell Access
  • in the blog’s root
    • touch .htaccess
    • sudo chmod 666 .htaccess
    • Edit said .htaccess fle and add the following
      • Options +FollowSymLinks
  • in /etc/apache2/sites-available
    • edit the file called default
    • Line 12 should read AllowOverride All
  • do sudo apache2 -k restart
  • Log into the blog, and set up your Pretty Permalinks desires.

Note To Self: This procedure may be incorrect. You modified so much crap trying to figure it out that you probably Christmas-Tree’d the server…