[CentOS] tty login hangs

Sun Feb 15 12:42:29 UTC 2009
Stewart Williams <lists at pinkyboots.co.uk>

John Doe wrote:
> From: Stewart Williams <lists at pinkyboots.co.uk>
>> Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console
>> (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even
>> if the shell is not doing anything.
>> When this happens I can still switch to another VT with alt+f2 and login
>> as normal.
>> I don't know if bash, mingetty or whatever process is locking up. If I
> 
> Maybe try an strace on the shell to see on what it is stuck...
> 
> JD

I'll do this when it happens again, but it's been OK for a while.