[tech] Cabellera

[Sam Moore]

Hi all,

Cabellera was suffering an exitential crisis.

[TPG], [SLX] and I have reinstalled debian squeeze 6.0.0

I believe that a bug introduced at some time between 6.0.0 and 6.0.4 may 
have been causing the issue. I haven't had time to investigate.

Description of stuff

1. Cabellera was working fine after the last email
2. Bob realised it was using the uwa mirror, which is horribly out of 
date. He then changed the mirror to aarnet (I think) and updated 
everything from 6.0.0 to 6.0.4
3. Cabellera crashed on reboot and every subsequent boot. It managed to 
get partway through the boot, the last message before it crashed was 
something about "exim"
4. [SLX] and I tried reinstalling debian using the aarnet mirror
  - The installer failed to detect the hard disk
  - We then tried the official ftp.au.debian.org mirror, same error
5. We changed the mirror back to uwa, the hard disk was detected, things 
worked.

[TPG] has installed the SOE and graphics drivers.
Things appear to be working well.

Obviously we shouldn't rely on the horribly out of date uwa mirror, but at 
the moment things are working. Unless you need to update something in 
particular and are aware that things will probably end up in flames, 
please don't update cabellera.

We might be able to look at this on Saturday?

[SZM]