[Linux-cluster] RHES4 box does not prompt for password afterentering login id at console

[sunhux G]

Thanks very much chap, finally in the wee morning hours, I decided
to power-cycle (as can't even login to do reboot) the box & it came
up fine.  No eventful messages found in /var/log/messages file


Thanks
U

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Kit Gerrits <kitgerrits at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The error:
> SCSI0 (0:0) : rejecting I/O to offline device
> means that one of the disks has failed.
>
> If the /var/ filesystem resides on this disk, the security logs become
> unwritable and the system refuses log-ins.
>
> The physical terminal is usually the most fail-safe way to log in (it has
> the most overrides.
> If this fails (as it appears to have done, you could try rebooting, to see
> if the disk will come back (it sometimes does).
>
> Otherwise, I fear you may need to swap out the disk and restore (or
> reinstall) what was on there.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kit
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *sunhux G
> *Sent:* vrijdag 8 oktober 2010 19:31
> *To:* linux clustering
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Linux-cluster] RHES4 box does not prompt for password
> afterentering login id at console
>
>  Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fx   where x is one of the numbers,
> I got into another virtual console which showed the message:
>
> SCSI0 (0:0) : rejecting I/O to offline device
>
> Is the above message related to the login issue?
>
>
> I've just managed to login to another Linux box on the same subnet
> & tried "ssh -v a_userid at problem_Linux_box_address" & the remote
> connection was closed, screen display is as follows :
>
> [root at svrname ~]# ssh -v myuserid at 172.16.x.y
> OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to 172.16.x.y [172.16.x.y] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
> debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
>
>
> ping to the problem box is Ok
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:36 AM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I have a Dell 1850 box running  RHES4.6 with Tomcat 5.5.17
>> and Opinion 5.2.9 : tonight the Dataprotector centralized backup
>> failed to backup via this server's NIC.
>>
>> After entering root at the login: prompt, the console screen clears
>> & it's back with the login prompt again without prompting for
>> password.
>>
>> I would not want to reboot this box if possible as it's production.
>>
>> Haven't tried ssh into it yet but anyway, I only recall there's root
>> login id in this box, there's no other login id & since it's a hardened
>> box, I can't ssh into this box using root.
>>
>> any other idea?
>>
>> There's no alert from the monitoring tool (which usually we'll get if
>> the filesystem or memory utilization or CPU exceeded the defined
>> thresholds or ping fails to this box).
>>
>>
>> TIA
>> U
>>
>>
>>
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