After a complete hardware replacement last evening the system is again showing signs of instability, without kernel panics or any error messages we will plan to move customer nodes off of this server today to a newer CentOS 5 system.  Customers will be notified in advance of their data transfers.

We’re scheduling an emergency maintenance window from 7PM-10PM PST.  Services should only be impacted for 30-60 minutes during this hardware maintenance window.

We thank everyone for their patience while we isolate the problem with this server.

Brandywine has experienced another sudden restart, we will be coordinating a maintenance window this evening to take the system offline and run a full set of diagnostics on all hardware components.  This will ensure accurate results as this is the fourth sudden restart this week and we can understand the frustration of VPS users on this piece of hardware.

Additional information on maintenance window timings to come shortly.

We are issuing an immediate reboot to update both the kernel and xen versions on this chassis.  The reboot will take approximately 5-10 minutes.

he server has issued a reboot and we are currently looking into whether this is kernel or hardware related. Nodes are now booting back up and we will update this list once we have confirmed the cause of the reboot.

Kernel updates provided from Red Hat for RHEL ES 4, Update 5 are now available which will resolve kernel bugs several of our servers have experienced with regards to editing packages in cpanel.

One of the bug reports:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209639

Comments from bugzilla including errata notice:

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html

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We will be rebooting the following servers this evening at 10PM CDT:

Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Delaware

Thank you.