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We have finished our examination and remote analysis of the main
SciLINC server. This lead us to believe that it was the victim of
electrical problems. It was later confirmed that there were some
transient electrical issues on Saturday in the building where the
machine is housed.

Binary junk was found written across a number of log files on this
server. Those files belong to various SciLINC processes, MySQL, Apache
and the Linux Kernel itself all around 7:02 PM local time Saturday the
16th. That's UTC 00:02 Sunday the 17th. This coincides with a
"disturbance in the force" that knocked a number of other machines
offline over the weekend as well.

These things should not happen, but they do. There are plans to
move the machine to a better location in the next couple of weeks.

At this point we are filing bug reports, as requested in the log
files, since MySQL is unable to recover from the transaction logs that
are present. As soon as this is done we will be attempting recovery
of the database and then work on getting the project back on-line.

We will keep you posted and thank you for your continued support.

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Source: SciLINC
BOINC project SciLINC: Main page News
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KWSN DC News reporter reporting from inside the server.