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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of=20
> Andy Christianson
> Sent: March 21, 2008 7:28 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Console Random Text
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am having a very strange problem. My sever stopped=20
> responding in SSH.
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> a co-worker said he was importing a MySQL database from a USB=20
> drive mounted as ext2fs.
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> I went back to check on the console, and it was scrolling=20
> *EXTREMELY* quickly with
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> apparently random text (it could have said something, but it=20
> was too fast to read).=20
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> I could not switch to another virtual console. It would not=20
> respond to any keyboard input.
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> Oddly enough, the machine was still responding to ICMP.
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> Does anyone have ANY clues as to what this could be? This is=20
> a server that an entire
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> Company runs on, so it's really important that I find out=20
> what is causing this.
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> -Andy
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If it looks like it is online, but no services respond then it could be =
a bad backplane or corrupted RAID. From personal experience.

Tamouh