"What are you going to do if nothing on the list works, and you don't actually understand the system? I'll bet you're going to try to restart the system, or reinstall it, or rebuild it, or some other blunt action that equates to a last, desperate attempt to get the thing working."<p>I've done this so many times. My own trivial projects, but still. I always took it as another sign of "jesus, there's so much more to learn".<p>Speaking of learning: any devops resources anyone would point out to people? Even if they are just to know what you don't know you don't know types of things.