Subject: Re: box problem
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 23:48:35 AKDT
It's a usb scanner. Which log?
Whatever it was, I think my 'kill' seems to have taken care of it.
Everything seems to back to normal now.
Jim Gribbin
On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 21:36, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> 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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