[okfn-help] AWS issues

Mon Mar 21 17:20:48 GMT 2011

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> > 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 ...

I've tried getting a replacement disk in there, but without EBS-backed
storage for the root filesystem, there's not a lot we can do that isn't
guesswork, so I think we'll have to write eu8 off.

Mk