The strangest thing... I took down our Alpha 4100 DU v4.0B for a routine
kernel rebuild, brought the system back up and no one could login, not
even I on the CDE console terminal. I did get the login window, proceeded
to login, got the "Last unsuccessful login" window, clicked "OK" and it
was hung from there on. Telneting in from the network would result in
Trying 192.102.232.163...
Connected to alpha.dickinson.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
but no login prompt.
It didn't seem to be a network problem because I could ping other sites,
mail was incoming, etc.
To make a long story short, I ended up removing xlogin from startup and at
that point I could login while in multiuser mode. But still, no telnet
sessions or rlogins would work. After about forty minutes, and a couple
handfuls of hair, everything suddenly cleared up. The only entry in the
log files that may be a clue is the LSM stuff below.
(during startup)
Jan 9 14:46:20 alpha vmunix: LSM: Resynchronization of volume vol-rz8g in
group rootdg started.
about 45 minutes later...
Jan 9 15:24:04 alpha vmunix: LSM: Resynchronization of volume vol-rz8g in
group rootdg finished.
..and suddenly telnet and rlogin work. Maybe this is a coincidence, but
it's the only entry in the logs around that timeframe.
We're using LSM to mirror the system disk (root,usr,swap). Could this
have locked the system disk and/or somehow disable the logins?
I should mention a few other errors seen in the daemon.log that might be
clues.
Jan 9 14:49:12 alpha inetd[502]: Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out
Jan 9 14:59:12 alpha telnetd[3745]: ttloop: peer died: Not owner
Jan 9 14:59:13 alpha telnetd[3760]: ttloop: peer died: No such file or
directory
The telnetd "Not owner" messages still appeared after things cleared up.
I don't recall ever seeing the other two errors though and they might just
be another problem to figure out.
-Bill Sadvary
Dickinson College
Received on Fri Jan 09 1998 - 22:42:51 NZDT