[cobalt-developers] Re: RaQ XTR Woes

[Cobalt <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Dan writes... ]

> We have had our XTR for a month or so now. It was working fine until
> this week when it decided to reboot itself two days in a row. After the
> reboot it had to rebuild the RAID 5 database but the rebuild was
> successful both times. The first time this happened I left the box
> running after the rebuild and it was OK for a day or so. The second time
> I rebooted the box after the RAID rebuild was complete and it has been
> fine since.

We noticed (and Cobalt has confirmed) that there are
issues with loose connections on some models with hard
drives, which may or may not be related.

Someone also indicated to me (off-list) that there is
a 2.6.17 firmware update that supposedly fixes the
RAID issues.

> Another odd thing is that the XTR lost the quota configuration for all
> of the virtual hosts after the first reboot.

Yes, although on average (for us anyway) it only seems
to affect about 2 dozen sites at a time. You may need
to run the meta-verify script to rebuild postgres:

/usr/local/sbin/
./meta-verify -sa

This will verify each site and prompt you to repair each.
You'll have to go in and change the quotas for each site
that is fixed, as the script resets it to 500/25.
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Jay Tingley, BlackSun
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