Between 4 PM CDT and 6:30 PM CDT today the web server mercy was upgraded in a number of packages performing various services. Testing indicates that no errors were introduced, but users are encouraged to report any anomalies. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Facility Events
From sometime after 4 PM CDT today to 12:30 AM CDT, our old web server – mercy – hung, apparently due to a longstanding OS bug in the PowerPC version of its OS. About 12:30 AM on Sept 28th, mercy was rebooted. We are … Continue reading
From 6:59 PM CDT today to 7:11 PM CDT, our upstream connection was down for unknown reasons. We are sorry for the interruption of service. … Continue reading
At 7:54 PM CDT this evening, our web server smile was briefly suspended to install security updates. The server smile was restored to service at 8:06 PM CDT. … Continue reading
From 9:53 AM CDT today to 11:02 AM CDT, our upstream connection was down for unknown reasons. We are sorry for the interruption of service. … Continue reading
System maintenance this morning was successful. The server smile was down from 6:30 AM CDT to 7:05 AM CDT, and again from 8:06 AM to 8:17 AM. Other services were unaffected. … Continue reading
May 24th, 2015 The system maintenance time has been postponed to 5/25/2015 – 6:00 AM to7:00 AM CDT to ensure a smooth upgrde. … Continue reading
The system maintenance time has been postponed to 5/24/2015 – 6:00 AM to7:00 AM CDT to ensure a smooth upgrde. The system time on the 24th will be s describe below. … Continue reading
on 5/17/2015 – 6:00 AM to7:00 AM CDT – System time is being planned to upgrade software, and take other maintenance actions to improve security, upgrade software, and otherwise do things that might be disruptive to customers. We do not expect significant … Continue reading
Over the last several days, the web servers mercy and smile have been unstable due to a kernel panic caused by a bug in the OS kernel, triggered by some heavy usage. A workaround has been identified – using a different OS for the … Continue reading
At 11:48 AM CST today our web server smile was rebooted to fix a problem with its system clock. Some time-based tasks, such as cron jobs had not been running as expected since Feb 20th at about 8:30 PM CST. … Continue reading
From 2:31 AM CST today to 5:36 AM CST, our upstream connection was down for unknown reasons. This was during off hours, and likely was caused by maintenance by our upstream provider. … Continue reading