On 28 May 2026 at 13:41, Tim wrote: Subject: Re: Had a major issue with machine not booting fully. From: Tim <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Date sent: Thu, 28 May 2026 13:41:48 +0930 Organization: Me, organised? Are you kidding?!
> Michael D. Setzer II: > > > Machines all have UPS units, but typhoon had power or for 6 days. > > Is there a communication link between UPS and PCs? You do want a > UPS to send a shutdown message *before* its battery goes flat. > Unfortunately, Guam has poor power. Even with UPS units sometimes get dips and spikes that will reboot or lock machines. Tried different UPS units, but doesn't seem to matter. And sometimes it is some are fine and other go off or lock, and then it changes. On UPS shows incoming voltage, and it would dip to 85v and then go back to 120v. First time I had it damage system in a way that wouldn't boot. Usually, the worst case was having to boot to my g4l kernel, and then run fsck on the partitions, and some would require fixes, but then they would boot fine. This did fry the Power Supply, so that had to be replace. But, reimages the working machine 80 to the broken machine 103 using bit level copy. Just mounted the /etc/hostname and change that. Everything else same. Now it books fine. Thanks. chk ports on machines. 21/tcp open ftp 79 80/tcp open http 79 443/tcp open https 79 5902/tcp open vnc 103 5905/tcp open vnc windows 11 mini 5922/tcp open vnc acer notebook 5977/tcp open vnc windows 11 HP 5978/tcp open vnc 78 5979/tcp open vnc 79 5980/tcp open vnc 80 Couple other machines and phones at house, but monitor these. Have a monitor script on machine 79, that checks up status every 10 minutes, and sends emails if changes. Thanks again. > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 > (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
