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The plot sickens
I fear a grand conspiracy is being unveiled. The are no Subaru mechanics in town, and the import shop that has done work on my car for me is closed until August 4. Dennis is on vacation. Maybe it’s time to call Click and Clack.
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The game begins
There five days to go until my wedding day. I will be doing several hundred miles of driving, including playing chauffeur for my guests. Late Saturday night, very visibly, and somehow ominously, the “check engine” light began to glow in my Subaru. So the planned things are starting to happen, and also the unplanned. I…
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buffer_jdirty (bh)
Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: “buffer_jdirty (bh)” Came in to find this message on our trusty dual-processor database server this morning. It’s on RedHat’s errata page, the first fix for 7.3, a problem with the Symmetric Multiprocessor Kernel. The annoying thing is that the kernel with just that fix is no longer available, they…
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Operation Failed
Outlook is saying this to me this morning when I hit the Send button. Almost funny in it’s uselessness.
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Great Falls Basin
On a whim, Ann and I took off late Saturday night for Great Falls Basin, where we slept under an amazing sky and woke up early to get a climb in. This route is one of my favorites, Frosted Flakes (5.9). It requires some uncertain smearing, a little edging, and has an easy dihedral at…
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31 years old
After making Ann put together a shrimp fajita and marguerita dinner that could be prepared and served in the mountains, I ended up choosing to have it in the back yard. I swung in the hammock, sipped my drink, and read Don Quixote while she cooked me the tastiest meal to come out of my…
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Williamson Rock
I made my first trip to Williamson Rock in the San Gabriel mountains north of LA on Friday with Roy Boswell. It’s a pretty nice crag – I took the picture from the parking area across the valley. There are climbers on the first route we did, Being There (5.7), just left of the big…
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NFS task x can’t get request slot
This one reared it’s ugly head yesterday, and has plagued me for some time. I have a farm of 9 computers that all use a single disk via a Network File System (NFS). During heavier use and testing I would start getting these errors from one of them, and then they would all go belly…
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inconsequential errors
I see that there will have to be some criteria for my error collection so it doesn’t get clogged up with little, inconsequential errors. For instance, I got two in a row yesterday: % IDL –feed-ir IDL: Command not found % idl –feed-ir error: need file name for –feed-ir The first was caused by the…
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incorrect data check
pg_restore: [cusom archiver] unable to uncompress data: incorrect data check Once again my attempt to back up a huge database failed after 20 hours or so. This message is specific, but meaningless to me. I have to guess. Probably the archive file is not correct. Could be a bad disk, a bug in the archiver,…