[okfn-help] AWS issues

Mon Mar 14 16:10:18 GMT 2011

On 12 March 2011 17:44, Martin Keegan <martin at no.ucant.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
>> AWS EC2 had issues today in EU-West region [1] and it seems to have
>> affected several of our machines including those running okfn.org
>> (eu2) and eu8 (dev instance). Most services have been restored but it
>> seems that eu8 remains unresponsive.
>
> Is eu8 supposed to be on instance i-b32e55c4? That instance appears to be
> having trouble booting, as /var/{run,lock} don't exist (I think /var is
> really on the volume we attach as /mnt/root). Are filesystems getting
> mounted in the wrong order?

Possibly so. We move /var and /home to /mnt/root on most small
installs to do. If this was not done right there may be issues ...

Rufus