Power Failure holds up Cobalt Stage 3
Saturday, October 8th, 2005Well, ain’t it lovely… I’m busy fixing a few things up in a local CVS repository…. I hit cvs commit, as you do… then all a sudden the lights go out, my screen goes blank, and I’m left in the dark — totally silent except two computer UPS’s screaming about the loss of power. As for my stage 3 tarball compilation on my Qube2 … up in smoke.
So I get up, and crash around in the dark looking for my torch so I can check the meter box (it hasn’t been unusual for the earth leakage to trip out without reason). No sooner do I get just 3 meters, the lights come back on. Okay, fine, it was late, so I just switched the rest of my computer off (namely the monitor, desklamp and tuner) and headded for bed. Then the power fails again. Lovely.
I found a torch and went looking at the meter box… Hrmm, not our end, and looking around, I see other people looking around in the darkness. Unfortunately in this case, the outage lasts longer than my UPS’s can supply power — so we go offline.
The power was restored at around 1:00AM, but unfortunately this means my compile for the Cobalt stages is now put back a whole couple of days, as the build must now start again. I’ve now pieced my network back together (namely a couple of IRC bots were offline, and my IPv6 tunnel was nonfunctional) and so I’m back online again.
Hopefully there won’t be any further interruptions, and this build can progress right to the end. 