From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 8: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8773837BE62 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:01:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA10314; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:01:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200007181501.LAA10314@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Overnight lobotomy? In-Reply-To: from Chris Hill at "Jul 18, 2000 9: 0:18 am" To: chris@monochrome.org (Chris Hill) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:01:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quite possibly the BRB is your only recourse here. Check the FreeBSD security advisories; I believe there's a TCP bug that can damage a 3.3 system. (It definitely affects 3.1). ==ml > Hi all, > > Got a strange one here. I have a machine that's been happily running > 3.1R ever since that was the current Release, close to a year now. > > Last night it was running just fine, but this morning I can't log in > from the console or from anywhere else. The keyboard responds to > alt-Fn, but to no other keys. Moused doesn't seem to be running, > either. From other hosts on the LAN, I can ping it but cannot telnet > or ftp. Its POP server does not respond, nor does its netatalk server. > > I'd try the usual diagnostic tools, but that's not easy when you can't > get a prompt! > > FWIW, this machine is on an RFC1918 net behind a NATting firewall > (ipfw under 3.3R), and the firewall machine is running fine. > > Any ideas? Am I going to have to press the Big Red Button? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > [1] Bus error netscape > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message