What to do when your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance gets instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently right after doing a regular Using the web GUI to restart didn’t work, and the result was the same through the command line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a few hours, the machine did change to “starting” but it also got stuck there till the next morning. Web GUI and command line tool did not help again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I started searching… I even created an account on Oracle Communities (which is horribly organize, really hard to get to what you need; plus when I clicked on the right resource (I think), it told me I don’t have permission to access it…. wth?, it’s supposed to be community support)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways… after trying to add a payment method to my account, and being blocked by their anti-fraud system telling me “We’re unable to process your transaction. If you continue to encounter the error, you may contact Oracle Customer Service.<\/a>.”; I tried chatting with Customer Service, which just told me they couldn’t do anything….<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I decided to see what else I could do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being on the free tier, and using all my 4 Ampere instances, I decided to terminate the stuck one *without* terminating the boot volume, and provision another one, without a boot volume….<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course that doesn’t seem to be a use case Oracle thought of, so I had to provision a new instance with its own boot volume, which automatically terminates the new instance as it puts me over the free tier limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So my solution was to attach the boot volume from the now terminated instance (ex-stuck) to a running one, run their “iscsi” commands to let Linux know about the volume (Thanks God they don’t differenciate between attaching a boot volume and a regular volume); mount the volume, and then rsync to my laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next step is to simply terminate the boot volume, that I now have copied all the files I wanted from; Create a new instance and restore the data back to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hope this helps someone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What to do when your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance gets instance Recently right after doing a regular apt-get dist-upgrade my OCI instance got stuck for a few hours in the “reboot” state. Using the web GUI to restart didn’t work, and the result was the same through the command line…. Continue reading apt-get dist-upgrade<\/code> my OCI instance got stuck for a few hours in the “reboot” state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n