Re: box problem


Subject: Re: box problem
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 21:36:13 AKDT


Hi Jim,

Was this on a SCSI scanner ? Boot up in a different mode and look at the log and
maybe post some of it OK ?

Dee

W.D.McKinney (Dee)
deem@wdm.com

On 14 Apr 2003 20:37 , Jim Gribbin <jgribbin@alaska.net> sent:

>
>Not quite sure how to describe this. I was doing some scanning this AM
>and my box got tied up with a process to the point it wouldn't do
>anything else. Drive access light was on solid. Couldn't access another
>terminal to shut it down or anything as when I would attempt logging in
>with another terminal, I couldn't get the password prompt.
>
>When I rebooted, everything was OK for a couple of minutes. Then the
>drive access light was on more and more until I could no longer access
>the system again.
>
>Rebooted once more and started checking logs for an unusually large one.
>'lastlog' was in excess of 18M and full of nothing but '/tty1_|tty1'
>(that first character is actually a divisor symbol, but I couldn't
>figure out how to put that in my email).
>
>I looked for and tried killing the one process dealing with tty1. I
>couldn't kill it, but my box seems to be OK now. Don't know what will
>happen when I reboot though.
>
>Can anybody give me some pointers on troubleshooting this?
>
>Jim Gribbin
>
>
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