Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:07:37 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to recover after power outage Message-ID: <1ED100F1-51AE-478D-873C-40FF43EA17FB@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310904050141k11eda14vd8db9224f4384757@mail.gmail.com> References: <AF401DB4-C4D1-44B0-B9D2-A34D81596481@identry.com> <4ad871310904050141k11eda14vd8db9224f4384757@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > 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? Can't log in at all. > >> 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? Several months, at least. > In other > words, did you change something and not/forget to restart the service? I don't believe so, but if I forgot it, then I guess anything is possible. > Have you tried ssh-ing to port 22 to see if the setting was changed > back to default? I can't at the moment, because the guys at NYI are working on the box. They have run fsck, which doesn't seem to have solved the problem. > > Are there any other services on this box? If so, are they running? The main app is MySQL. I don't think it is running, but can't really tell unless I can log in. I have backups, and while NYI is trying to get this box running, I'm setting up a new database server, just in case... -- John
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