by VanessaE » Sun Mar 10, 2013 09:49
Sorry for the continued downtime this morning, all. That bad RAM stick left some dirty footprints on the rest of my OS while it was still installed. Between that and my DVD burner having evidently also gone bad, I couldn't be sure what parts of my OS or its install media were damaged, so I grabbed a spare DVD drive, trashed the bad one, and re-installed the OS from scratch using a freshly-downloaded-and-burned install DVD image.
The server has been re-compiled and re-installed as well, for safety, and is up and running normally. No user data was lost.