Computers hate me

[dmaze]

watertown's syslogs think we lost power last night, with it being on at 1 AM, off at 1:20, and back on for sure at 1:28. The fan in the bedroom woke me up both when it went out and when it came back. Couldn't fall back asleep, finished reading fantasy trilogy I was working on, made it back to bed.

So this morning the network was down. donut was doing the thing recently it's been doing, which is being stuck on

GRUB Loading stage1.5...

GRUB Loading.....

(So, it found the boot sector, loaded GRUB's stage1, which loaded stage1.5, which got stuck loading stage2?) I kind of suspect this is the hard drive being picky, but then why would it find the boot block? At this point the system is old enough that I'd either want to consolidate it on to sol-draconi or go with the new-donut project ("build the house router into a Linux-based wireless AP").

watertown's subsequent reboot (to get ntp and zhm) wasn't entirely happy either. It booted fine, but the second monitor came up in 640x480 and off by a bit. So my background on the second screen was a nice picture of the lavender line, at a blue-over-purple signal. (The good news is, when I popped up an xterm, it was still the right physical size, so that bit of infrastructure definitely works.) Yay kicking the X server.