-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:46:24PM -0600, Jay Leafey wrote: > Anyway, I updated two identical servers recently and got the new kernel > (2.4.21-40) along with the new initscripts, vixie-cron, squid, and gnupg > packages. I waited until the weekend to reboot one of the two boxes and > was encouraged to see that it appeared to come up OK and all the servies > started with no apparent problems. Later on I tried to log in via SSH and > was unable to get in. The login apparently succeeded, but I got no > response at all after the password entry. I wasn't able to log in via the > console either, same lack of response. I rebooted (ctl-alt-del) into > single-user mode, which worked fine, and set up syslog to send all messages > to /dev/tty12 for debugging purposes and enabled sysrq, then booted back > into runlevel 3. Again, no response after the username/password entry and > no messages on tty12 indicating any problems. Just no shell response at > all on root or any of the user accounts set up on the system. > > The box is set up to authenticate against LDAP, but as I mentioned there > were no errors from the syslog output that seemed relevant. I'm probably > going to set up a shell on one of the virtual consoles to debug this some > more, but thought I might ask if anybody else has seen anything like this. > All other services (http and a Sun directory server) start up fine, but I > cannot get a shell in multi-user mode. I'd like to avoid a rebuild, but > that would not be catastrophic as this box is part of a redundant pair. > Anybody got any constructive thoughts on this? Any NFS mounts ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKJm1pdyWzQ5b5ckRAnonAKCESQjvMIHDoaz85PZ7rIWxheb4vQCfe2zS wHe360AtyFPSXSsYCtRlGDs= =PL6u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----