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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:01:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        chris@monochrome.org (Chris Hill)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Overnight lobotomy?
Message-ID:  <200007181501.LAA10314@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000718084627.80632A-100000@mail> from Chris Hill at "Jul 18, 2000  9: 0:18 am"

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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
> 
> 
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