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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I'm grateful for your responses.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I do not think the software broke. Our problem is the result of repeated power and UPS failures. I'm desperate for help in bringing the server back to life.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Yes, this is an aged system that has had minimal maintenance for a few years. It runs a dedicated-purpose application and we're careful to operate with in its limits. I do not have the resources or the technical skills for upgrading or re-hosting this.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Does anyone make house calls?</FONT></div>
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From: Scott McBrien <smcbrien@gmail.com><br>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 8:14 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [ale] Can't Boot! Need Super Block Wizard<br>
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<div>As an aside, there is no such thing as Red Hat Fedora Core 6. It's either Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a pay for product complete with support (to help with these types of issues), or Fedora Core 6, a community based distro that has about a 1 year life cycle. If you're using Fedora Core 6 on production boxes (1) you're horribly out of date as they're now at Fedora 17 and (2) you shouldn't use community based distros for production systems. Sure they're free, but you're on your own when stuff breaks. If you *must* use a community based distro you want something like CentOS, which has a 7 or 10 year lifespan or Ubuntu LTS which has a 5 year lifespan. If for no other reason than you can get updates (like to glibc which on your machine has several local user can take root exploits on it.)</div>
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<div>Perhaps we need a presentation on why one should choose an enterprise distro, as this is the second of these types of issues I've seen this week! [the first was not an ALE reported issue :-) ]</div>
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On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:52 PM, <A __removedLink__1957678124__href="mailto:mdkliman@aol.com">mdkliman@aol.com</A> wrote:<br>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I have a small business in Norcross, with 3 Linux servers running Red Hat Fedora Core 6.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">One of these is a database server running Oracle 11i.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">We lost power and now the DB server won't boot. It displays a message about not finding a "Super Block" and - I think - awaits entry of a utility name. Our programmer is conversant with Linux, but told me I need help from an experienced Linux Admin.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">"I've fallen and I can't get up." I sure could use some help before I lose any more customers.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thank you, in advance,</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">Marvin Kliman</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">cell: (404) 433-0900 any time</FONT></div>
<div><FONT face="Times New Roman">work: (770) 441-3636 Ext 11 8am-6pm</FONT></div>
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