From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 3: 7:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBFD14DAA for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 120jcj-0007ag-00; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:08:05 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Steven Kehlet Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird hangs: networking hosed (except for ping), can switch consoles but can't type In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:32:19 PST." Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:08:05 +0200 Message-ID: <29181.945860885@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:32:19 PST, Steven Kehlet wrote: > However recently, it's been having weird hangs about once every week > to two weeks. All the sudden all network services appear to be > hosed. You can ping the box. You can telnet to it, at which point > the connect succeeds, but the banner and login prompt never appear. > Mail and web services behave similarly--you can connect to the port > but the service doesn't respond. You step over to the console, and > you can Alt-F? to switch consoles. However nothing else you type gets > registered. Have you looked in /var/log/messages on the problematic machine? Any hints there, perhaps? If not, I'd suggest you leave top running on a virtual console so that you can walk over to the machine and see what's happening in terms of resource utilization. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message