Friday, July 27. 2007
First off, I'd like to extend my deepest apologies for this evening's extended downtime. It was a combination of poor planning and execution that led to the downtime, and it shouldn't happen again.
It started out with a RAM upgrade from 512MB to 1GB today. My kernel happened to be old and not support 1GB of RAM, and so I needed to upgrade. I found the proper kernel in the apt-get repositories and installed it, all smoothly. After I had installed the new kernel I typed 'telinit 0' (shutdown)instead of 'telinit 6' (restart). Normally this wouldn't be too big of a problem: it would shut down and then I would go to the Remote Reboot panel, type in my password and reboot the machine. Unfortunately I couldn't remember my password for the remote reboot panel, so I requested a new password. This, of course, was tied to my email account hosted on the machine that was, of course, not running at the moment. At that point I emailed tech-support to have the machine booted up from their end of the connection. That worked, and now everything is working as expected.
My deepest apologies,
Graham Christensen
