Sometimes it takes a lot of knowledge/wisdom/experience to figure out odd/stupid crap like this. Other times.. It should have just been solved by replacing the damn part that was broken. Still, interesting read. I have ran into my fair share of "wtf" situations that I fixed in strange ways (guess ill write some up one day) but this is a fun one.
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>I think I never told this story here... how I fixed a server with a very precisely placed piece of tape.
So at Euskal Encounter we got shiny new servers a few years back, and they worked great except one of them developed a peculiar problem. It would not shut down.
Sometimes it takes a lot of knowledge/wisdom/experience to figure out odd/stupid crap like this. Other times.. It should have just been solved by replacing the damn part that was broken. Still, interesting read. I have ran into my fair share of "wtf" situations that I fixed in strange ways (guess ill write some up one day) but this is a fun one.
Archive: https://archive.today/zemHI
From the post:
>>I think I never told this story here... how I fixed a server with a very precisely placed piece of tape.
So at Euskal Encounter we got shiny new servers a few years back, and they worked great except one of them developed a peculiar problem. It would not shut down.