From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 09:21:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD19A1065670 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:21:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF8C8FC18 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:21:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so619039fxm.43 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:21:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VijLWHXaMthTXvvYd13VfMkKpjEIH/Zg1WoW+UMBMHc=; b=RL0EJffEI+nGOP/Q/KiTbeSrEYzEXMYWD8NvvQwx9kY8fEZYN9vhmp/36tLL2SzUcB 3yTVjq7VVNiHkPb8qipMl0Izmcat/gp6Y0oczrCsAFx8Ynl8yt0XiN7VWzw+Zpd0QEjG nNXEz0X8vIgrbna9e/2yEOes9aBax75p2rpBI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kUerHFHiQOfjL/zLEEEgL0v1Pir8Q8jYN/DsshttmFbHUBpTTe2IM06FfsH9TmLpuV peMU0XaqtIhlJExJXvL5/I4tbWGtS33W0TzqqUuwpCLXYV2M/XWbBd1sOHMHiLcS9O1k Bj4aLYptJ/zuLk2Jni7Gr+2E7H1WegiircTlU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.116.69 with SMTP id l5mr9353472bkq.102.1246440116248; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:21:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A4B0E8E.4090501@otenet.gr> References: <4A4B0E8E.4090501@otenet.gr> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:21:56 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750907010221w57ae36f0mb427195139784d8@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Manolis Kiagias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failing to show 'Password:' prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:21:57 -0000 On 7/1/09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > This morning my server was unresponsive both from ssh and through http. > The only thing that is different on this system on a 1st of month, is a > dump job that runs through periodic (on a mostly inactive system). > > Visiting the console, I discovered the system was still up and > displaying login prompt on all vtys, but after typing a username, the > password prompt would never appear. Keyboard was responsive and I could > even switch between keyboard layouts (English/Greek). Plugging and and > unplugging an external USB drive, showed the kernel messages on tty0. > Still, I could not get it to display a password prompt and had to hard > reboot it. > > I can't find anything in /var/log/messages either - it stops at 5.25 in > the morning. And the dump was not performed either (and there are no > traces about it in the log). > > What kind of crash could cause the password prompt to not display? Ideas? Can you actually log in? Login prompt and password propmt are configurable via gettytab and login.conf.(db) -- Paul