I sat down to get some serious work done this evening, but the Linux box hosting the application I want to work on died for no reason. One minute it booted fine, the next it wouldn’t respond to SSH. I rebooted a few times but nothing came back. I plugged it into a monitor and it seems to have decided that it doesn’t want to mount it’s /proc. A sure sign of total fucking disaster. The partition is XFS, but xfs_repair produced only a screenful of text and certainly no results.

This is all very fucking irritating. My client will be most pissed off at this and I will have to go over to them to get a new box or to get this one fixed. I’ll lose at least a day and a half over this shite when I’ve got a million better things to be doing. I really wanted to get stuff moving today and I’ve been totally frustrated in the desire to get some ticks next to things on my todo list.

I reckon it’s a disk problem. I suspect the box has been thrown around by a courier a bit too much, so my vitriol is reserved for him I think. Utter utter bastard that he is. Probably.