[RAS] nebka

[Thomas Krichel]

  Ruggieri, Timothy writes

> I just got back from the UITS datacenter.  Nebka was running with no
> obvious hardware problems, I couldn't see any warning lights or
> anything like that.  I could log in at the local console, but once I
> entered my ID and password, the login process froze and nothing more
> would happen.
>
> I restarted the computer and once it came back up I was able to log
> in normally and can now get in via SSH.
>
> My rough guess would be that a bash process was frozen and had
> killed the shell entirely.  That would explain why I couldn't get a
> prompt on local login and would also kill any number of network
> services that rely on shell scripting.

> That's just a guess though.  A quick look at /var/log/messages does show a number of segfaults reported on the 29th, which may bear further investigation.
> 

  Thank you so much for this report. I remebered that I could 
  get authenticated, but it failed to create a terminal for the
  shell to run in. I had that problem with sahure a couple of 
  times. In that  case you can get in with

ssh machine /bin/bash -i

  so that thee is no terminal created. I get this solution from 
  some Cretian student web site. It saved me in the sahure problems.
  I tried it out on nebka and could not pass authentication. I 
  then demissed my sanity and thought this may have been a fatamorgana.

  The mysql segfaults are an issue we know about.

  I will change the rsync_by_directory feeder of RePEc data
  to a standard rsync. This may be a trigger.

  Thanks again Tim! BTW, if you plan a w/e in the city
  my appartment is free all Summer.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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