So I just ran “reboot now” as root on an Ubuntu 12 VM (I’d installed/updated some packages and it said reboot required). I waited a while but the machine was dead to the outside world. Not contactable via SSH or HTTP (80). I logged in via the console and:
ps aux | grep nginx Yep. It’s running
ps aux | ssh Yep. All ok.
curl -i http://www.google.com/ Nothing! Hmmm…
ifconfig The interface appears to be up.
/etc/init.d/networking restart Ok, but still no connectivity.
Power cycled via the Droplet admin thing and everything’s back to normal. Any idea what’s going on there? This is a new VM with only a handful of packages installed - nothing outlandish and no config changes to do with networking at all. Any idea what’s going on?
Cheers, Kane
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Oops, never mind, found another hint about a bug in “reboot now” vs. just “reboot” on the command line. <br> <br>Also didn’t realize my username was going to be derived from my email address like that. I’m in no way officially representing digitalocean. <br> <br>Delete this at will!
I’m seeing similar behavior on a similar system; want a support ticket from me too?
Weird. Can you please open up a support ticket if this ever happens again? Thanks!