From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 16:34:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A83F37BC13 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from hacker (hutch-204.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.132]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA02910; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:34:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <006201bff110$94288f00$84430ace@hacker> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Chris Hill" , "FreeBSD Questions List" References: Subject: Re: Overnight lobotomy? Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:33:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hill" To: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:00 AM Subject: Overnight lobotomy? > 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? > If none of the services that you want running are responding, than it looks like a reboot won't hurt anything other than your uptime. I know it's a bold move, but I'd go for it man. If you need some moral support, try the following phrase, "It's ok to cycle the power when the box is hung." :) Josh > 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