Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:41:01 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to recover after power outage Message-ID: <4ad871310904050141k11eda14vd8db9224f4384757@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AF401DB4-C4D1-44B0-B9D2-A34D81596481@identry.com> References: <AF401DB4-C4D1-44B0-B9D2-A34D81596481@identry.com>
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > Blast... my beautiful FreeBSD servers were rudely switched off when my data > had a power outage a couple hours ago. They restored power about 30 minutes > later, and one box came up no problem. > > The other has a login prompt on the serial console, but my login does not > work. I get a "Login incorrect" message, even though the username/password > is correct. > Can you log in as *any* user? Even root login fails? > When I try to SSH into the box, I get this (server name changed): > > $ ssh user@example.com -p 48420 > ssh: connect to host example.com port 48420: Connection refused > > In other words, I seem to be locked out. > > I don't want to do anything drastic without having a good idea what I'm > doing. Any suggestions, much appreciated. > What was the previous (estimated) uptime on the machine? In other words, did you change something and not/forget to restart the service? Have you tried ssh-ing to port 22 to see if the setting was changed back to default? Are there any other services on this box? If so, are they running? -- Glen Barber
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