On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:44:45AM -0800, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> 1.5 has died on me at the login prompt.  Since I've enabled the echo server,
> I was able to ping the machine.
> 
> When I tried to telnet in from another machine, I got this:
> 
> Trying 209.185.76.39...
> Connected to bsd.Culver.Net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> Then it just hung forever.
> 
> 
> Then, I tried FTP to see if I could snag some log files:
> 
> Trying 209.185.76.39.21...
> Connected to bsd.Culver.Net.
> 
> Then hangs.
> 
> Finally, I go out into the machine room and at the console hit RETURN a 
> few times, and sure enough the login: prompt is printed each time.  I then
> type "root" at the prompt, hit return, and then it -also- hangs.
> 
> So I hit the RESET switch and I'm waiting for it to fsck the 45G disk.
> 
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?  Or have any ideas?  Quick system rundown:
> VIA VA-503+ K6-2-400 256MB ECC Promise Ultra100 running UDMA66, GENERIC 1.5
> kernel.

Network problems maybe ? Do you use NIS ?
Otherwise I suspect it can't start new processes, for unknown reasons.
Never seen this on my machines yet.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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