C&CZ Problem Card

Saturday July 22 at 11:37, there was a power outage in the Huygens building, also for all equipment connected to emergency power. The power outage lasted long enough to leave even devices and rooms with a UPS battery backup without power. This included all network equipment (routers, switches, wireless access points) and all servers in the C&CZ large server room. When power returned from 14:08, several devices were defective: - Half of the fully redundant FNWI router was defective. External companies in the UBC are not doubly connected to their provider, so they had no connectivity until Monday, when their connectivity was switched. Since Monday afternoon, the FNWI router has been repaired, so is redundant again. ...

Because of a planned upgrade, gitlab.science.ru.nl and gitlab.pep.cs.ru.nl will not be available.

LibreOffice and other software suites using Java (jvm) internally are affected by the Ubuntu 14.04 kernel update patching the Stack Clash. It seems that Linux kernel developers, Ubuntu developers and JVM developers are working hard world-wide in finding a proper solution. Work-around ‘JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Xss1280k libreoffice’. Ubunti released a fix.

Apologies. Affected disks: acfiles beevee bioniccell bio-orgchem celbio1 celbio2 chemprac csgi-archief csg-projecten csg-staf desda ds ehef1 ehef2 ehef3 femtospin geminstr2 giphouse gissig gmi hfml-backup hfml-backup2 hfml-backup-inst highres impuls introcie isis janvanhest kaartenbak kangoeroe mathsolcie microbiology microbiology2 milkun2 milkun2RenD milkun3 milkun5 milkun6 milkun7 milkun7rw mwstudiereis neuroinf neuroinf2 olympus puc randomwalkmodel secres2 sigma sigmacies spectra spectra-rw spm spmdata3 spmdata4 spmdata5 spmdata6 spmdata7 spmstaff ssi staff-hfml stroom thalia ucm vsc vsc1 vsc10 vsc11 vsc12 vsc13 vsc14 vsc15 vsc2 vsc3 vsc4 vsc5 vsc6 vsc7 vsc8 vsc9 vscadmin wiskalg wiskunde wkru ...

Sunday evening, one of the archive disks failed. The data on it was lost, as it wasn’t in a redundant setup. After the weekly reboot, the server hung on this disk being broken. It took us a while to get the server up again.

Due to maintenance the wifi network on campus (Eduroam) will not be available for twenty minutes on Monday night between 10 pm and 8 pm. During those twenty minutes your mobile device appears to be connected with the wifi network but you will notice there is no internet connection. After this interruption the connection will be established automatically. During the maintenance period additional short interruptions may occur. Monday evening the wifinetwork will be placed behind the new firewalls of the Radboud University. When this is done, users of Eduroam on our campus are no longer directly reachable from the Internet. We are doing this to protect wifi users against viruses like the Wannacry virus that was used for the worldwide ransomware attack last week. ...

Switch es7-huyg-04-070 of a server rack became powerless after maintenance in the computer room of C&CZ. Restoring power and powering up the switch resolved all problems.

Between 23:30 and 00:30 the fixed phones will be out of service for about half an hour. Between 00.30 and 02.00 hours, a few minutes of internet interruption will take place. At those moments, RU services can not be accessed from outside the campus.

The central network switch in the serverroom at the Faculty of Science will be restarted in connection with some software maintenance. Many servers and services are not available for approx 20 minutes.

The RU wifi network (eduroam) will be unavailable on Monday evening April 24 between 23:00 and midnight for half an hour due to maintenance work.