Hiya,

Stupid question, but did you give it time? On my Q700 (only 20MB RAM),
logging in by ssh sometimes takes several minutes while the machine swaps
everything else out, and then readies itself for the task of logging me
in. Basically what I am saying is that those venerable old machines can be
very pokey compared to the GHZ box that is on most people's desks
nowadays.

If it ever happens again, you could try to do a trace at the debugger to
see where you interrupted it, or at least list the processes to make sure
sshd is still up...

I'm only running 1.4.2 (custom kernel) but can happily report that is has
never ever locked up on me... sometimes it just took a while to respond.

my 2c.

Richie



On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Matthew wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> I have just had a rather strange lock-up on my Quadra.
> 
> I could ping the machine, but couldn't ssh or ftp in, but I could use is 
> as a web-proxy (squid). Very strange behaviour indeed.
> 
> Plugging in a monitor and trying to log in didn't help, even though what 
> I typed echoed onto the screen, I got no password prompt or further 
> response. I hit command + power and got a prompt, then rebooted it.
> 
> Any ideas what the explanation could be?
> 
> I have 68MB RAM, so it probably wasn't that, and about 128MB Swap. What 
> would make the ssh and ftp daemons break but not the squid daemon?
> 
> Puzzling. It's also the first lock-up on this machine, which is a shame, 
> so I'd like to get to the bottom of it. :[
> 
> /var/log/messages reports nothing, by the way.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> ~ Matthew
>