Subj : Odd days at the Lab
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Aug 25 2025 12:14:10

I woke up to find my Proxmox server unresponsive. Saw a series of read
errors on /dev/sda. I power-cycled the box, and the web interface came
up - but there was no information for the VMs.

I saw this message in the error window:

TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed:   Check of pool pve/data
failed (status:64). Manual repair required!

I looked at the LVM, everything looked OK. Googled a bit, ran
lvconvert --repair pve/data

And my VMs appeared normally in the GUI.

SMART stats look OK, no reallocated sectors. It's getting a little long
in the tooth, I may use Clonezilla to clone it to another like drive
this week.

My router (a Synology RT2600AC, nice piece of kit) has been dropping my
internet with the message "limited connection" recently, usually at the
most inopportune times. I was going to swap it out for a newer one, but
decided to wipe it and restore the config. So far, so good.

Not sure if I want to stick with Synology, seeing as they want to lock
in newer models with Synology-branded drives, but my older models have
run with whatever crappy drives I had laying around just fine.

I have a couple of Linksys WRT1900ACS routers running OpenWRT that I
like to play with, but the Synology, when it's stable, is a lot more
polished. It's got a nice DNS server built-in with views for
split-horizon DNS, a VPN server and a "threat prevention" firewall that
inspects packet headers for possible attacks.



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