Computer Woes
Oct. 27th, 2013 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenJust spent all morning and half the afternoon moving my mail-serving to my desktop, as the server has... not died exactly, but... become not worth wrestling with any longer.
It was easier to move it than to fix it. But, hey, I have mail!
It was easier to move it than to fix it. But, hey, I have mail!
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Date: 2013-10-30 09:22 am (UTC)1) Overheating when the CPU usage went too high (though I discovered later that was probably due to too much dust where the box was). So I had already moved the webserving to the desktop.
2) Too long between updates. I'd been meaning to change over from Arch Linux to Sabayon Linux on the server, as I'd already done so on my other boxes, but I kept on putting it off. For a distro like Arch, that can be disastrous, and it was; I broke the system on the upgrade. So I decided to install Sabayon after all, which brought us to...
3) Unsupported Hardware. It seems more recent versions of Xorg don't support the SIS chipset... or at least, I'd noticed that the xorg-driver-sis package had been removed from Sabayon recently. And it so happens that the server has an SIS graphics card. Which means, while I managed to install Sabayon, X-Windows doesn't run. Which means a bunch of things wouldn't run and it's just annoying.
Maybe I'll try installing another distro, like Ubuntu, on the server.