https://mrcupp.com/tags/homelab/Recent content in Homelab on IamMrCuppHugoenmrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:19:30 -0700https://mrcupp.com/post/2026-08-17-the-node-that-wasnt-dead/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:00 -0700mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)https://mrcupp.com/post/2026-08-17-the-node-that-wasnt-dead/<h1 id="symptom-the-irc-bouncer-wont-come-up">Symptom: the IRC bouncer won&rsquo;t come up</h1> <p>Two separate multi-day outages, same shape. A node on the Raspberry Pi cluster goes NotReady. The Pi is up — SSH works, load is nothing, the kubelet is running. Reboot it and it comes back. A couple of weeks later a <em>different</em> node does the same thing. The thing I actually noticed each time was ZNC, the IRC bouncer, crashlooping on a lock.</p>