On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Tom Browder wrote:
I've had this problem a long time ago, and don't remember how I recovered,
but it was with help here.
I suspect a failing disk, and I wonder if there is a hail Mary command I
can do to force a reboot to see if it can recover on its own. I would
almost welcome starting over with a new server.
I can login and su to root. I have not been able to inspect logs yet due to
time.
I see a 2023 Debian thread getting into lots of low-level fsck and other
things, but can my old brain and trembly fingers hack it without
compounding the problem?
Opinions requested, please.
-Tom
Oh, I do have backups of my important stuff.
if you can su to root, and provided that inittab hasn't been corrupted,
then
reboot
will force a reboot. But without ipmi or equivalent, if it doesn't come
up then you're completely stuffed without physical access.
My provider has a shareable kvm that you can 'book'. I have the ibm
equivalent (IMM) so never needed to try it.
Even my home machines have ipmi, it is so useful to have bios access
without needing to attach a screen.
Tim.
