[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: savannah pingable, but not responding to ssh

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:40:19AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hi Sylvain,
>>
>> Do I (as one with root access) have console access to savannah?
>>
>>   $ ssh -l root sv.gnu.org
>>   ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>>   [Exit 255 (0)]
>>
>> If not, what's the procedure to reboot it?
>>
>> As I'm sure you know, it's been very unreliable over the last day or so.
>> This is not good at all...
>>
>> I suppose I should be subscribed to some mailing list
>> where this is being discussed.  Which one is it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jim
>
> Hi,
>
> There was first a kernel crash, followed by a RAID5 crash. Nice day...
>
> A couple of us has access to a console (some kind of serial
> access). We can see with sysadmin@ for granting you access.

It could be useful, but let's hope not for a long time to come.

> This wasn't discussed on a mailing list afaics - there was some chat
> at #savannah but I wasn't here. savannah-hackers-private also got some
> mails about just now.
>
> Why do you say SV was unreliable?

I'd noticed the coreutils buildbot failing to cvs update
something like 12-24 hrs before.  Hadn't investigated.
Just assumed you knew about that.