From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 07:55:30 2008 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 A044F1065682 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0A28FC15 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (cpe-24-161-50-5.hvc.res.rr.com [24.161.50.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m8O7tJrZ002982 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m8O7tEY8005620 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:55:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m8O7tExk005619 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:55:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200809240755.m8O7tExk005619@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:55:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 192.168.3.21 Subject: Machine locking up 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, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:30 -0000 Hi, We had a power failure at the datacenter we colocate at, and all our servers went down. One is acting up ever since. It rebooted but wasn't accessible. I tried to log in via our KVM and got the login/pass, but when it did the /etc/motd and rest it locked up. CTRL-C and CTRL-\ didn't do anything. The remote KVM could C-A-D and the machine rebooted. Once it rebooted it seemed ok, but then locked up again while in use. The odd thing was I remembered to try CTRL-T, and got : load: 0.00 cmd: login 1188 [sysctl lock] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 176k on the session I was trying to log in on, and on the session I was doing a tail, I saw : load: 0.00 cmd: tail 2013 [proctree] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 0k I could tab between VTYs, but logins wouldn't accept input, and I couldn't C-A-D this time around. I could telnet to a special port on it for monitoring and get a reply, but SSH/sendmail didn't reply. Its a FreeBSD 5.5 (I can't upgrade it, sorry).... Any clues what to look for? Thanks, Tuc