[erik_seaberg]

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.”

My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

[spondyl]

I was going to link a related comment but you're actually the author of it!

Here it is anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316230

[reaperducer]

Coincidentally, I'm in the same predicament with Facebook, itself.

I can't log in to Facebook because Facebook wants approval from the Duo Mobile 2FA app. The 2FA app won't approve the login because it wants a code that can only be obtained by logging in to Facebook.

Solution: Deleted both Duo Mobile and Facebook apps. Moved on with my life.

[dylan604]

isn't that like throwin the baby out with the bath water? i've never had problems with duo mobile, but then i don't use FB so i've never seen how it behaves with FB. so dump FB, but why dump duo mobile?

[reaperducer]

Because the only thing I used it for was to login to Facebook. All of my other 2FA is through other methods.

[lovedswain]

In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart

[erik_seaberg]

I heard a story that Google SRE had to up a sacrificial Bigtable in any new zone before they could up enough services to finally up a real Bigtable for the zone.

[neura]

Please, please tell me this is a true story. It's amazing.

[erik_seaberg]

I can only verify being unable to get the wi-fi password. Otherwise it’s all secondhand, I wasn’t on call.