What happened to linuxpackages.net?

flamesrock · 02-21-2005, 12:25 AM

After trying out a few other distro's, and (inevitably) coming back to slackware, first place I go is linuxpackages.net to get my favourite programs. But now, I can't access it from home or school?

Is it working for anyone else?

sh1ft · 02-21-2005, 12:38 AM

It's down for me too... odd

CartersAdvocate · 02-21-2005, 02:53 AM

Me three...was working fine a few days ago when I was on

nosaku · 02-21-2005, 06:37 AM

Hmm...me too...I am not able to log in to the site. What could have happened?

Alex_jacobson · 02-21-2005, 07:48 AM

Maintenance ?

satinet · 02-21-2005, 08:03 AM

maybe they run off an IIS box??

just joking........

The site pings, so I maybe their server(s) has a problem.

reddazz · 02-21-2005, 08:21 AM

Probably got some sort of technical problem and will be back later.

ixus_123 · 02-21-2005, 12:56 PM

Same here. I ventured off to Ubuntu land, liked it, realised I prefer Slackware but no Linuxpackages ;(

Last time i got on it said database error & now I can't get on at all

gbonvehi · 02-21-2005, 02:06 PM

From Linuxpackages.net:

Quote:

Standby
Doing a system upgrade will be back soon!

davidsrsb · 02-21-2005, 08:29 PM

They are back, but seem to have restored from an old image as there are no v10.1 packages showing

dustin_wielenga · 02-21-2005, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Jim Simmons 2005-02-21 20:08:36
Well we are so sorry for the outage. But we lost two drives on the system. This resulted in complete data loss. We have restored what we can at this time and will keep working on trying to get the rest restored. No fear though the packages even the 10.1 are still on the archive just missing site entires. Again we will keep working on it and should have more information later about the 10.1 packages that are missing. You can always browse the packages on one of the mirror servers. I just don't have enough money to put a raid setup in the system yet which is what we need. We did have a backup db running but around the begining of the month we had started having server issues and had turned off the sync to attempt to trouble shoot the issue. I had forgotten to turn the backup db on again. Again sorry about the outage and we hope to get things back to normal soon. Packages please standby and drop me and email for more info on the situation. On the plus side though we did get to bring everything up to 10.1 a little earlier than I had planned though. Any keep the faith and keep on slackin.

I found this on the Linux Packages website.

cereal83 · 02-22-2005, 01:44 AM

They have no 10.1 software anymore. Guess it got wiped out

Sucks