Re: X config damaged by power failure

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:17 -0800, dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 09:16:33 am g wrote:
also, you never know where disk heads are when something goes
wrong.

you should give some serious thought to putting an ups in line
with mains.

This is good advice. I forgot to add one thing in my previous reply,
so let me do so now.

One might also want to look at using the stateless Linux hooks to set
up a read-only root filesystem. It requires a bit more thinking, but
I can say that for my own needs it works quite well. In this case,
it could've saved poc from a bit of trouble.

I've had a UPS for at least the last 5 years (not the same one) since
power here is iffy even at the best of times. At the moment I use an APC
1KVA unit. Unfortunately for reasons I can't quite fathom my machine
still doesn't survive power outages even though the other stuff on the
UPS (monitor, DSL modem, router, printer) all do. I've checked the earth
(ground) connection and it looks OK, and the UPS light shows green, i.e.
all OK. The UPS is only a year old so it can't be the battery.

poc

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