[BlueOnyx:10310] Re: 5106R/5107R/5108R YUM updates - more fixes published

[Chuck Tetlow]

Yep,

That sounds like a box that had the BlueOnyx install CD left in it when it was rebooted. 

A few years back, one of my customers left a BX CD in his big virtual host after loading a new VM with BX.  When his NOC went down to a power distribution fault, the big virtual host reloaded and wiped 20+ VMs turning it into a big BX server.

Shortly after learning of that, Michael put in the requirement to hit enter before a default install will start - to prevent such accidents.  But if your Colo guys hit enter at the opening screen - you've got a newly installed BX server and all the old stuff is gone.

Hope you had backups....

Chuck

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "DD" <bqlist at distortal.com> 
To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:21 +0100 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:10232] Re: 5106R/5107R/5108R YUM updates - more fixes     published

> >Not really, sorry. None of the updates had anything in it which would cause 
> a 
> >reboot - or would prevent it from starting up again. 
> >The lockup will most likely clear itself when the box gets a hard reboot. 
> >Unless some other unrelated defect would prevent it from doing so. 
> 
> Oh it's not my day today. 
> 
> The colo has put a KVM on it as it had gone into setup mode. I logged in and 
> it was asking for IP info (subnet mask, gateway etc) which I've entered, but 
> now it's prompting me to log in and not accepting the master password I 
> usually use on this box. 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> DD 
> 
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