Hi --
After a reboot this morning, we find ourselves unable to log into one
of our AlphaServer 4100 5/466 hosts. We get a `Last login:' message,
and the /etc/motd file, but then nothing else. The system will echo
keystrokes, but we don't get to a shell prompt.
Telnet, ssh, and ftp logins all do similar things: hang after
authentication. A (text) console login also hangs before getting
a shell prompt.
The system is running T64 5.0A with patchkit 0002 installed.
Three CPUs, 512 Meg of memory.
We had to reboot due to memory-related errors. (Messages about running
out of swap.) We've run for weeks and weeks without similar errors,
however, so I don't think a lack of memory or swap is what's causing
the login-hang problem.
The system is a DNS server and NIS server. Both things work in
multiuser mode as near as I can tell (but it's difficult to tell for
sure when you can't log in).
One minor clue is that, at startup, EVM complains about
not being able to talk to the binary error logger. I don't know
what the relevance of that is.
I'm able to reboot to single user, and I've played with disabling
startup scripts in /etc/rc3.d, but haven't found anything yet.
A `last' in single user mode shows the login entries for the previous
hung-up login attempts.
I'm worried that a corrupted file might be hanging up the logins. I've
seen some old references to that in the archives, but the files
referred to there don't seem to be present in t64 5.0A.
Compaq support was not a lot of help. Don't ask. Any ideas?
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Received on Thu Jan 04 2001 - 16:26:00 NZDT