Mon, Mar 28, 2011
Late last week, apps1.cs suffered an unidentified failure in some system-wide component of the Gnome desktop, causing LTSP logins (and anyone else trying to run a Gnome session from apps1.cs) to stall and malfunction. Since we don't know what internal Gnome component failed or how to restart it, we had no choice but to reboot apps1.cs in order to get it back to normal.
This has now been done, and apps1.cs is back in service.
(Because we have several apps machines and apps1.cs was still working for some people, especially people logged in remotely, we did not want to reboot it abruptly. Instead we blocked further access to it and got people to end their logins in an orderly way.)