Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I think my UPS just turned into an "Oops". :-( This morning I was woken by the blaring of the clock-radio in my bedroom that resets itself to "the alarm is going off NOW" when the power comes on. The glitch was short enough for the VCRs to ride through with their programming intact, so it could not have been more than a few seconds, but it was more than enough to take down every computer in the house. Since my arm hurt too much to let me get back to sleep, I figured I might as well head downstairs to make sure the servers came back up correctly. (The big fsck just finished during this paragraph.) But one machine won't come up at all: the only machine in the house on an UPS.

There are no lights on the UPS. "Surge on", "power on", "on battery", and "check battery" (the only four lights it has) are all dark. The machine plugged into the outlets that get surge-suppression only had completly rebooted by the time I got downstairs, and just needed the date tweaked. The one plugged into the battery-protected side of the UPS is still dark. If I move the plug for the monitor over to the surge-only side, it gets juice. So clearly the UPS itself is hosed.

There's a little black button next to the power cord that I figure is a circuit breaker. Poking at it has no effect. And I know the UPS wasn't overloaded, 'cause I've been using it on this machine for a few years, and it normally gives me about ten minutes of power, not ten seconds.

Obviously, the irony of the one machine properly protected being the only one that didn't come up is annoying me. Now to find other outlets to plug it into and try to get file service re-started so I can tend to the Windows machines and the Mac. Feh.