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Ayer mi servidor de paket radio comenzó a exhibir un comportamiento extraño. Primero se colgó. Luego se apagó. Hoy en la mañana estaba colgado de nuevo y luego se volvió a apagar. Cuando le puse atención al booteo me dió unos mensajes raros que no habia visto antes. A final ni quiso cargar el sistema operativo. Probé con un LiveCD y funcionó, lo cual realmente me dejó perplejo puesto que pense que era un problema de hardware, y ahora esta dudando.

A final probé otras cosas y ya se resuó a encender. Y ahora si estaba convencido de que era un problema de hardware. Pero de pronto se encendió sola, asi que pense que podia estar poseida.

Finalmente luego de tantos ciclos de encender y apagar, lo ideal era sacarla e inspeccionar la maquina. El cable de poder no queria salir… y ahi entendí porque hace unos dias habia un pequeño aroma a quemado que no podia detectar su origen… se estaba cocinando a fuego lento!

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Yesterday mi paket radio server started to exhibit a estrange behavior. First, It hanged. Then, it shut down itself.  This morning it was hanged again and later it was off again. When I payed attention to the booting sequence, I noticed some weird messages that I haven’t seen before. In the end the OS was not loaded. I tried with a LiveCD and it worked. I was perplex as I was thinking in hardware problems, and now I was doubting.

In the end I tried other things and refused to turn on. Now I was convinced that it was hardware. But suddenly it turned on by itself, so I started to think it was possessed.

Finally, after so many cycles of ON and OFF, the ideal was to take out for close examination. The power cable refused to get out… right there I understood why there was a small smell like burned since some days ago… it was been slowed cooked.