Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:08:05 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Steven Kehlet <kehlet@techfuel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird hangs: networking hosed (except for ping), can switch consoles but can't type Message-ID: <29181.945860885@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:32:19 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912211031510.560-200000@phoenix.techfuel.com>
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:32:19 PST, Steven Kehlet wrote: > However recently, it's been having weird hangs about once every week > to two weeks. All the sudden all network services appear to be > hosed. You can ping the box. You can telnet to it, at which point > the connect succeeds, but the banner and login prompt never appear. > Mail and web services behave similarly--you can connect to the port > but the service doesn't respond. You step over to the console, and > you can Alt-F? to switch consoles. However nothing else you type gets > registered. Have you looked in /var/log/messages on the problematic machine? Any hints there, perhaps? If not, I'd suggest you leave top running on a virtual console so that you can walk over to the machine and see what's happening in terms of resource utilization. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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