[CentOS] CentOS 6.4 login after reboot after apcupsd shutdown - shows POWER FAILURE

[Rob Kampen]

On 07/09/2013 08:04 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:50:34PM +1200, Rob Kampen wrote:
>> So then I go to log in and get "POWER FAILURE" followed by
>> "Authentication failure" - this is on the console
>>
>> via SSH I just get "POWER FAILURE" and the ssh connection drops.
> Sounds like /etc/nologin; contents of which are displayed immediately
> before the login session terminates.  Configured within apcupsd.conf
> with a configuration setting of NOLOGINDIR pointing to /etc by default;
> I don't believe it can be disabled, however.
Thanks John, I'll look for this file.
>> So I guess the, log everyone out and stop further logins instruction
>> is still lurking around somewhere.
>>
>> How do I regain control of my server??
> Remove /etc/nologin.
>
>> Does this mean I need to boot with a rescue disk and edit some file
>> somewhere??
> "ssh root at host rm -f /etc/nologin" will remove it.
>
>> How do I prevent this re-occurring, after a perfect shutdown and
>> restart, only to get stymied here.
not an option, already set no root login via ssh.
however I have console access, so a <Ctrl><Alt>F7 got me another tty and 
root login from there worked.

now to debug the apcupsd....
Thanks for the help - appreciated
> apcupsd should be handling this automatically when mains power is
> restored.  Perhaps check the package documentation / project bugtracker.
>
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> 							John
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