From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 20:25:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE3016A4DD for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 20:25:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aisdirect.co.uk (dsl-217-155-102-238.zen.co.uk [217.155.102.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF4643D77 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 20:24:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcr@canuck.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.18] (helo=[192.168.0.18]) by aisdirect.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.8) id 1DUVoY-00043g-HX for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 21:22:18 +0100 Message-ID: <427D2497.4000406@canuck.co.uk> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 21:27:03 +0100 From: jcr User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050329) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: half-dead 5.[34] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 20:25:00 -0000 >Weird thing happened this morning though, suddenly the box seemed half-dead. >I didn't touch it, someone else noticed because they weren't able to ssh in. >TCP connection established, but no auth phase. >I also noticed in my active ssh sessions, that things were "dead", in the >sense that when on the shell prompt, pressing ENTER only gave me a new, >blank line. Logging in via serial console didn't work either, put in >username and press ENTER and nothing happened. > This may be unrelated, but I had almost exactly these symptoms on April 1st with RELENG_5_3 built from March 25th cvsup. SSH connection got a bit further. prompted on remote system with correct key fingerprint, but got no further. Same scroll-only behavior on console, I could still change vtys, but each had the problem. No response to ctl-alt-del, so pulled plug. No jails or unionfs, running Apache1.3, mysql4.1, PHP 4 and Zend ZDE server 4. msi km4m-v, 256 ddr333, AthlonXP1800+. Last thing in syslog was making xpdf from ports. I put it down at the time to having earlier tried to launch openoffice installer from the machine over ssh-tunneld-X, which never come up. Figured it had quietly eaten all the mem or such. Hasn't recurred, box is otherwise absolutely stable. --